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Book Review: The Art of Ian Miller
Awe-inspiring pen and ink artBritish artist Ian Miller (1946) is best known for his gothic and macabre style. Combine that with meticulous pen and ink technique, you have a visually striking image with...
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Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum
This is a large 334-page hardcover collection of Italian drawings at the Princeton University Art Museum. It was published as a companion to the exhibition that's running on 25 Jan to 11 May 2014 at...
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Book Review: Geometry of Design, Revised and Updated (2011)
Geometry of Design is an insightful book that looks at design with geometry in mind. It has technical information such as all the diagrams of golden rectangles, circles, and then there are the ratios...
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Book Review: Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book
Surprise, surprise. This is a very popular book that has over 200 favourable reviews on Amazon.It's a colouring and treasure hunt book by illustrator Johanna Basford who is know for her intricate black...
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Book Review: Mikucolor: KEI's Hatsune Miku Illustration Works
Here's another artbook on Hatsune Miku. There are quite a few artbooks relating to Hatsune Miku and it's getting a bit confusing so let's recap first. First, there's the Hatsune Miku Graphics:...
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American Impressionism: A New Vision, 1880 - 1900
This is a very beautiful artbook of American Impressionism paintings. This style is related to European Impressionism and was practiced by American artists during the late 19th and early 20th...
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Book Review: Hellboy: The First 20 Years
Here's the second Hellboy artbook. It's not the sequel to The Art of Hellboy that was released in 2004 though.Hellboy: The First 20 Years is a 20th anniversary artbook to celebrate the character and...
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Book Review: Watercolor: Paintings of Contemporary Artists
This book is a mixed bag. Looking at the preview pages that Amazon has provided, I would not have bought the book. But I managed to browse through the whole book at a bookstore and like it enough to...
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Book Review: Rage of Bahamut: Official Art Works
Rage of Bahamut reminds me very much of another digital card game called Lord of Vermilion. I guess the common point is the slightly more Asian style art. Those who have not played the game before can...
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Book Review: Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking,...
Map Art Lab is a fun art activity book for those interested in art and cartography. The 52 projects included involve mixed media, and uses all the different elements of the map to create art. You'll...
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Book Review: Fate/Complete Material Volume 1: Art Material
Those who enjoyed the Fate/Stay Night visual novel now have an artbook to check out. This is the English edition for the Japanese artbook Fate/complete material I Art material which wasn't favourably...
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Book Review: Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter
When I first saw the book, I was like "Is this for real?". This book is huge! It's almost A3 size, and it's 272 pages thick. This is the IMAX of artbooks.If you look closely at the cover, you'll see...
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Book Review: パズル&ドラゴンズ イラストレーションズ (Puzzle & Dragons Illustrations)
Wonderful character design bookThis is the video game artbook for the Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons that was released in 2012. It's essentially a character design book featuring the...
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Book Review: POSTERS - OTOMO KATSUHIRO × GRAPHIC DESIGN
This book is bigger than I expected. It has 176 pages, and the size is about A3 size, similar to artbook GENGA - OTOMO KATSUHIRO ORIGINAL PICTURES which is also published by Pie Books. The two books...
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Book Review: 竹谷隆之精密デザイン画集 造形のためのデザインとアレンジ Takayuki Takeya Drawings,...
This is the concept artbook of Japanese artist and sculptor 竹谷 隆之 (Takayuki Takeya, website | facebook). It's a 160-page paperback. This book consists mainly of character designs and the concepts for...
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Book Review: 田島光二作品集 & ZBrushテクニック (KOUJI TAJIMA ARTWORKS & ZBrush Technique)
This is the art and technique book of Kouji Tajima (田島光二), Japanese concept artist, creature designer, digital sculptor all in one. His forte is in creature design and this book showcases the many...
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Book Review: エロ×メカ (Katsuya Terada's Erotic Engineering)
Erotic pictures in this review are NSFWエロ×メカ features Katsuya Terada's erotic illustrations. As a kid, Terada would practice drawing erotic pictures for himself to enjoy. As least that's what he said...
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Book Review: ゴッドイーター&ゴッドイーター2 ビジュアルアートワークス (God Eater & God Eater 2 Visual...
This is the video game artbook for God Eater and its sequel God Eater 2. It also includes art from the first game's expansion God Eater Burst.It's a thick 288-page paperback. Half of the book features...
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Book Review: The Art of Millarworld
The Art of Millarworld is a fantastic art compilation of all the creator-owned titles Mark Millar and various artists have created. Titles featured are Wanted, Chosen, War Heroes, Nemesis, Superior,...
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Book Review: The Art of DreamWorks Animation: Celebrating 20 Years of Art
This is an excellent retrospective artbook that looks back the concept art created for DreamWorks Animation films. Over the past 16 years, they have made 30 films, from the Antz in 1998 to Home (2014)...
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