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Book Review: The Art of Inside Out
Unlike other Pixar films, Inside Out deals with something rather abstract like emotions. So how do you use art to represent that. Well, you get to see just that in this artbook.The book collects the...
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Book Review: The Art of World of Warcraft
Here's another wonderful artbook put out by Blizzard Entertainment and publisher Insight Editions.The Art of World of Warcraft is a huge 224-page hardcover. The cover has a smooth almost velvet...
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Book Review: Sketching from the Imagination: Sci-fi
This is the third book from the Sketching from the Imagination series published by 3dtotal Publishing. I love all three of them and I hope they keep coming up with more volumes.The book is still...
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Book Review: Realms: The Roleplaying Art of Tony DiTerlizzi
Tony DiTerlizzi is a man of many talents. Besides being an artist, he's also the co-author of Spiderwick Chronicles, something I didn't know before I bought this book. That's impressive.Realms: The...
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Book Review: Animorphia by Kerby Rosanes
Kerby Rosanes is a freelance illustrator from Philippines. He's known for his intricate cartoon and fantasy doodles on sketchbooks. I've actually featured his drawing tools before.Animorphia is his...
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Book Review: The Essential Evangelion Chronicle: Side A
Even though the original Evangelion series is more than 2 decades old this year, the anime's popularity just does not die down. I guess a bit has to do with the reboot series Rebuild of Evangelion. I...
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Book Review: Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your...
This seems like a book that markets Sharpie markers but it goes a bit deeper than that. Timothy Goodman is an illustrator, design and AD from New York and he loves using those Sharpie markers.This book...
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Book Review: Subconscious Meanderings: Surreal, Visionary, and Semi-Strange...
Joe MacGown is an artist from Mississippi. His style of art is, as he described himself, of neogothic surrealism or subconscious meandering. "Subconscious meandering" is his way of allowing ideas to...
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Book Review: CP Treasures, Volume III: Colored Pencil Masterworks from Around...
CP Treasures is an annual artbook the collects the best of coloured pencil works from artists around the work. This is the third volume, the first one from the series that I have. Volume 1 was...
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Book Review: Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic
Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic is an epic book on its own that looks at one of Disney's early classics, Pinocchio. This huge 352-page hardcover book is devoted to the complete production...
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Book Review: Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World
This is a review copy sponsored by Storey Publishing as part of a blog tour promotion to introduce Nature Anatomy to more readers!Nature Anatomy is Julia Rothman's new book for 2015. This is sort of a...
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Book Review: Senran Kagura: Official Design Works
Wow, the producer Kenichiro Takaki is really unabashed at the selling point of Senran Kagura series of games. On page two, in case you missed it, they even printed the words "BOOBS" in big bold red...
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Book Review: Bali Sketchbook by Graham Byfield
Here's another sketchbook by artist Graham Byfield.Bali Sketchbook was originally published in 1998. Byfield has made several trips to Bali in 1997 to capture the scenes and everyday life on this...
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Book Review: Record of Agarest War: Heroines Visual Book
The book has all the characters that appeared in the PS3 game Record of Agarest War, Record of Agarest War Zero and the XBox 360 game Record of Agarest War Re-Appearance.It's a book heavy on character...
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Book Review: Shining Blade & Ark: Collection of Visual Materials
Here's another video game companion book translated by Udon Entertainment, this time for fans of Shining Blade (2012) and Shining Ark (2013). Presentation is not different from other Japanese video...
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Book Review: Sayang Singapura by Lee Xin Li
I discovered this book at a hippy store in Singapore called Cat Socrates there they sell lots of novelty stuff. Lee Xin Li is currently an architecture student and illustrator who's based in Singapore....
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Book Review: Draw It: Tools, Techniques, Methods
Draw It is a book on tips and techniques for sketching. The chapters are divided according to the different tools used such as the pencil, pen, brush pen, marker, pastel and watercolour. The pages are...
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Book Review: Scenes of Thailand by Edric Hsu
My sketcher friend Edric Hsu has just released his first published sketchbook called Scenes of Thailand featuring sketches he drew in Thailand. This seems like a piece of commissioned work from...
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Book Review: The Art of Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City &...
Here's the ultimate artbook companion to the Arkham games and it's well worth the wait. This hardcover book comes in at 304 pages. It's big and heavy.The book covers all the three Arkham games namely...
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Book Review: A Sky Longing for Memories: The Art of Makoto Shinkai (English...
This is one of the most beautiful animation background artbooks I've seen. I've actually reviewed the original Japanese edition 新海誠美術作品集 空の記憶 ~ The sky of the longing for memories ~ which was published...
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