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Book Review: The Art of Sketching: 400 Years of Travel Diaries
I wasn't able to read this book without feeling sleepy. The writing style is academic and similar to those used my museums to describe their work.Here's one of many reference to the travel diary:The...
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Book Review: Violent Pink
Thanks to Gallery Nucleus for sending me this artbook for review. They recently had a launch of this book in May until 5 June 2016. This is a large format 80-page paperback. Violent Pink is created by...
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Book Review: Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, One Minicar,...
Florent Chavouet's new travelogue artbook Manabeshima Island Japan is just as charming as his first, Tokyo on Foot. Chavouet is back in Japan and this time on this particular lesser known island called...
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Book Review: The Art of DOOM
This artbook should delight fans of DOOM for the all the beautiful concept artworks included. The book focuses on character, creature designs, and environment art. The pages are filled with variations...
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Book Review: Cannabis Works 2 by Tatsuyuki Tanaka
It's so great to see a new artbook from Tatsuyuki Tanaka. His first artbook came out in 2003 so this has been a long wait, but it's worth the wait.This 160-page hardcover is packed with wonderful...
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Book Review: Cafe & Croissant (CTN 2015)
Thanks to Gallery Nucleus for sending me this copy of Cafe & Croissant (CTN 2015). This is an A5 size paperback featuring the artworks of five artists, namely Julien Rossire, Guillaume Singelin,...
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Book Review: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Blackbeard: The Lost Journal
The fourth installment of Assasin's Creed probably has the best artbooks in the series. The Art of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an awesome artbook. And this Blackbeard's journal is also pretty...
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Book Review: The Art of Finding Dory
The Art of Finding Dory is a huge improvement to the earlier two Pixar artbooks, The Art of Good Dinosaur and The Art of Inside Out. At least this time, they managed to pack the book with art without...
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Book Review: The Art of Tomorrow Kings by Ashley Wood
The Art of Tomorrow Kings is a typical artbook you would associate with Ashley Wood. There are old school robots inspired by the World Wars, gatling guns, long swords, long legs, Old Masters colour...
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Book Review: Warcraft: Behind the Dark Portal
No matter what you think of the movie, this is a wonderful artbook on its own. This hardcover artbook is actually split into two parts and there are two covers, one for The Alliance and when you turn...
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Book Review: Paris Je T'aime by Lapin
Paris Je T'aime is one of several sketchbooks from Lapin in 2016. The other two are Modernisme Beyond Gaudà and Barcelona - An Urban Sketchbook which I will review when they come out eventually.Lapin...
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Book Review: The Art of Ice Age
When I was looking at The Art of Blue Sky Studios, I wondered why there wasn't any dedicated book for the Ice Age films. Well, we finally have one. This 248-page hardcover features a generous amount of...
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Erin Hanson: Open Impressionism, Volume II
Erin Hanson, an oil painter from California, has just launched her new artbook called Open Impressionism. She paints in a style she calls "open impressionism" which to me is a style that's rather eye...
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Book Review: Robot Envy: Zenith
Dave Pasciuto is the founder of Robot Envy, a website that features robot art contributed by artists around the world. In 2012, he put out his personal art book and was said to be working on another...
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Book Review: The Art of Broken Age
This is the companion artbook for Broken Age a game that made history by being the largest crowdfunded game on Kickstarter at that time with over USD $3.3 raised. The developer has been praised for...
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Book Review: Walking TOKYO Sketches of Popular and Memorable Sites
I got to know of this book through Amazon's recommendations.This is a 72-page paperback that features the artworks of Japanese artist Rumiko Hotta. On the cover, it says it comes with 8 postcards and 2...
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Book Review: Urban Sketching Old San Juan - Puerto Rico
Here's another delightful sketchbook by Mike Daikubara. He likes to self publish these little sketchbooks of his trips, and there's also one just on hotel room sketches. This time, he travels to Old...
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Book Review: Suicide Squad: Behind the Scenes with the Worst Heroes Ever
This is a fantastic movie companion. It has 176 pages but it's actually thicker than it seems because of the hardcover and all the removable items inside. The book features artworks, designs,...
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Book Review: The Art of Painted Comics
After much delay and several changes to the cover art while being listed on Amazon, this book is finally out. This 392-page hardcover is a large book to behold. In the introduction it says that this...
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Book Review: The Urban Sketchbook: Get Out, Walk, Observe, Draw, Lose...
Have you seen people sketching outdoors and wonder what they are doing? The Urban Sketchbook is the book that explains what urban sketching is all about.This book is essentially an introduction to...
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