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Book Review: An Illustrated History of 151 Video Games
This is a wonderful book that looks at the evolution of video games over the last few decades. I can sense the nostalgia when reading about the games that I used to play, and the consoles that I owned....
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Book Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Chronicles: Cloaks & Daggers
This is the fourth Chronicles book in the Hobbits film series. Fans and readers who like the previous three books will find that this is produced with as much care and effort as the previous three. In...
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Book Review: Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely
Graphic Ink is more of a comics anthology rather than an artbook. It's a very thick book at 368 pages with hardcover. The reproduction is fantastic. I don't understand why Robin was chosen to show his...
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Book Review: The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation was first published in 2003 and this is the updated edition. The only thing that's updated is actually the cover art. In essence, it's a reprint, a...
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Book Review: Magic Color Flair: The World of Mary Blair
When I bought this book, I was seriously confused by the other book The Art and Flair of Mary Blair: An Appreciation that was also coming out in the same month.Magic Color Flair is actually the...
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Review: Low-Tech Print: Contemporary Hand-Made Printing
Low-Tech Print is a wonderful visual resource for those interested in personal hand-made printmaking.The book is split into 4 chapters that cover screenprinting, letterpress, relief printing and other...
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Book Review: The Art of Dejah Thoris and the Worlds of Mars
This review is NSFWThis is a wonderful artbook that collects the art covers for Dejah Thoris that appeared in the comics released by Dynamite Entertainment. It's thick 288-page hardcover gallery of...
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Book Review: Hyperdimension Neptunia +mk2 Artworks
This is the video game artbook of Hyperdimension Neptunia and its sequel Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2. The book's a 152-page paperback. And it's translated by Udon from the original Japanese artbook...
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Book Review: Resident Evil 6 Artworks
Great artbook mainly for the creature designsResident Evil 6 Artworks. This is yet another translation by Udon Entertainment, and the original is the Japanese artbook バイオハザード6 アートワークス that was released...
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Book Review: Paper Cut: An Exploration Into the Contemporary World of...
I love looking at paper illustrations and crafting. There's that tactile feel that digital illustrations can never replicate. And then there's the surprise you get when you see how artists use paper in...
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Book Review: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season One Declassified Slipcase
When I knew about this book in early 2014, it was actually titled 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Art of the Series'. The title changed midway before the actual release to what we have now....
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Book Review: The Art of Sin City
Here's a reprint of the first edition that came out more than 10 years ago. They have the same page number so the content should be the same, but don't quote me as I don't have the first edition. This...
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Book Review: The Art of Planes
The Art of Planes is a beautiful artbook companion to the two films Planes and Planes: Fire & Rescue. It's a 176-page hardcover book that's quite similar in format to Pixar artbooks.It has a...
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Book Review: The Art of Deception: Illusions to Challenge the Eye and the Mind
The Art of Deception is wonderful book of optical illusions and artworks curated by optical illusion enthusiast Brad Honeycutt. I've also reviewed the author's previous book The Art of the Illusion...
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Ten: The Art of Smallguy Doodle by Alan Bay
Here's the sketchbook from Alan Bay, aka Smallguy, an artist based in Singapore. He started out creating bitmap video games for mobile phones, later went on to a Japanese company specialising in MMO...
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Book Review: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Art of the Movie
When I took the book out of the slipcase, I was surprised at how thick it is. At 336 pages, this is the thickest of all the Marvel movie artbooks so far. It still comes with a slipcase, a sturdy one....
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Book Review: Hatsune Miku Graphics: Vocaloid Comic & Art Volume 2
This is volume 2 of Hatsune Miku Graphics series of artbooks and I've reviewed the first volume before.This is a fan art compilation featuring illustrations from 39 creators. The quality is a mixed bag...
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Book Review: 斗战神原画集 Asura Original Artworks
This is the artbook for the Chinese MMORPG game called 斗战神 or Asura, that's if I get the name correct. The more literal translation would be Fighting God.The game's playing style is similar to World of...
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Book Review: Sights and Secrets Sketches and Paintings of Hong Kong
This book was published in 2003, so that's quite some time ago. It has been republished a few times and I can see why because the subject is timeless. The author and artist for Sights and Secrets is...
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Favian Ee's Sketching George Town II Sketchpacker's Diary
My sketcher friend Favian Ee has just released a comic sketchbook about his experiences while at the Sketching George Town II event during July 2014. He has made the book on sale on Lulu, and you can...
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