Scott McCloud’s incomparable “Understanding Comics”.
I swear you can open this book to any page and it’s amazing.
(ps it’s actually a digital image of a printed copy of a drawing of a painting of a pipe)
Highly recommend scott mccloud’s “understanding comics” as an introduction to all forms of visual media, but especially educational work like scientific illustration because the man does have a handle on some of the funkier stuff that happens when a viewer tries to interpret an image.
Also reccomended: james gurney’s “light and color”. The man did Dinotopia he knows what the fuck he’s talking about.
I genuinely think this is a more interesting take on the treachery of images than most and it’s super refreshing because a lot of people stop their interpretation and thinking at the most famous interpretation. Meanwhile, Magritre, among other in this series, painted this:
It’s called The Two Mysteries and I always want to show it to every person who call the message of the treachery of images obvious.
