Tales of Xillia artbook

I bought the Tales of Xillia Collector's Edition which came with a figure of the heroine, as well as a 100 pages artbook. I enjoy looking at some of these artbook things, which usually includes concept art of the characters and the environments (in this case, of the game). The cover itself looked pretty; simple and clean design with just the title and a flower-like magic symbol.

Some concept art of Milla Maxwell, the heroine of the game. The in-game portraits were also included in this book, but I was more interested in these kinds of designs since I don't get to see them in the game. It makes getting the artbook more worth it. Besides having all the main characters, the side characters (even some minor ones) were also included and that's wonderful! I find it disappointing if they only have a few select characters. There are some minor characters that I like as well.

Besides the character designs, there are a bunch of environment concept art. Environment concept art usually amazes me. All that depth and detail...it's really amazing. Xillia's a fantasy game, that has some areas and cities that are more similar to the real and modern world (reminds me of some European cities). I like those kinds, so it's nice to see these environment art included.

And there's also some drafts, along with the fully rendered illustrations.

There's also these two pages which have a bunch of magic symbols, such as the magic circles that appear when a spell is being cast. I think that it's pretty neat. (and magic circles are awesome)

The main selling point of this limited Collector's Edition is supposedly the Milla figure. I think that it's sculpted pretty well, capturing her immense hair volume quite nicely as well as her body line. It has been modelled based on one of her official art.

A beautiful addition to my desk.

I hope to be able to one day create proper concept art for my own characters and maybe even do environment illustrations (I loathe drawing backgrounds so this will be a horrible challenge). But what I want even more is to be able to make figures of said characters. Being able to hold the character in real life is an amazing feeling.