This publication tells all about Hajime Sorayama, an illustrator renowned for heightened realism, eroticism, and fantasy worlds. This book includes everything from around 25 new illustrations (the majority of which are published for the first time in this volume) to the uproariously funny musings and conceptual notes written in the keenly mordant wit of Sorayama. This book is also the first to trace Sorayama's artwork production process from sketch to completion. At its end the reader will find a list of books, movies, and music that inspired Sorayama, and personal journal entries spanning two years. The depths contained in this comprehensive volume can't be found anywhere else. The reader will absolutely be satisfied. Special slipcased edition with snake-skin textured cover. Please note: This is an erotic art book intended for mature readers, not one of the publisher's instructional manuals.