Longque Chen is a senior concept artist working in the gaming industry. His specialty is designing mech, weapons, and Vehicles. He was featured in 3dtotal's Sketching from the Imagination: Creatures & Monsters.

This book collects hundreds of sketches and drawings in ink and marker created by the concept artist Longque Chen. The book is divided into five sections:

Walking Mecha

Space Machines

Robotic Mecha

Creature Mecha

Creature Town

The final two sections comprise over half the book, covering Longque's signature animal inspired mecha.

Beautifully produced, printed on thick stock, with a Swiss lay flat binding, and a heavy weight dustjacket.

From the Introduction:

Most of these drawings were done between 2016 to 2020. From past several years, I have been trying work on a new direction of concept designs, introducing nature inspirations into my hard surface designs. I did all final concept designs looks like inspired by specific creature, maybe a mammal, a reptile, an underwater creature or an insect, but fully made of mechanical parts with some strong functions. Apparently, nature is a master that created everything perfectly and reasonable, they inspired me to build up an unique design philosophy. From these works, you can see the whole process about how I designed my animal mecha by studying chosen creatures' structure, muscle system, and form step by step, then finally turned them into something new and cool. I wish everyone enjoys my fantastic, weird but realistic world.