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Book Review: Nepal The Art Book by Bernat Moreno
Nepal The Art Book is a visual travelogue hand drawn by Bernat Moreno. He contacted me in late 2015 to let me know of his Kickstarter campaign to produce this book. I backed his Kickstarter campaign...
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Book Review: Creative Revolution: Personal Transformation through Brave...
I bought this book thinking that I could get some inspiration, and also learn more about how other artists create art. The book fulfilled both criteria but somehow I still felt the book was lacking.The...
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Book Review: Creative Strength Training: Prompts, Exercises and Personal...
Jane Dunnewold's new book Creative Strength Training is a collection of exercises with the aim of to keep your creative engine run along smoothly. The book's split into 10 chapters which each chapter...
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Book Review: The Line Art Challenge: 100 sketches for 100 days
This book features some artists who enjoy challenging themselves to improve. The concept was to create a line art each day. It started out as a fun exercise and someone thought why not make it a book....
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Book Review: Drawing in Black & White: Creative Exercises, Art Techniques,...
The goal of the book is to get you started with black and white media so that you can practice with tonal values. The exercises are simple and easy to follow along. Different drawing techniques are...
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Book Review: Sketchy Stories: The Sketchbook Art of Kerby Rosanes
Here's a wonderful sketchbook by Kerby Rosanes, an illustrator based in Manila, Philippines. He's known in the doodling community for his cute and intricate drawings. This 128-page sketchbook is...
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Book Review: How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal by Nathan Fowkes
I got to know of Nathan Fowkes' art through the scene paintings from animated films and his blog. This guy is truly a master with colours, light and shadow. He has been in the animation industry for...
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Book Review: Court of the Dead: The Chronicle of the Underworld
Court of the Dead is an intellectual property developed by Tom Gilliland. It's a folklore of the Underworld as told through a curator for Death. It's very well written and almost matches the look and...
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Book Review: A Monster Calls: The Art and Vision Behind the Film
I was taken aback by how thick this hardcover book is. It's one thing to know that it has 328 pages and another thing to actually see it. Turns out there are 82 pages of screenplay included.This book...
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Book Review: Ballpoint Art by Trent Morse
On the back of this 176-page paperback, it says "extraordinary art and the world's most ordinary pen". Yep, there are definitely some amazing pieces of artworks in this book. The words "painstakingly...
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Book Review: Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
Just like other DK Star Wars visual guide, this is packed with lots of information and interesting trivia about the film, characters, props and the galaxy. The content in this 200-page large format...
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Book Review: The Art of Disney's Dragons
The Art of Disney's Dragons is essentially a sketchbook that features character designs and sketches for dragons that you may have seen in Disney films.These artworks were created traditionally, back...
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Book Review: Skeletons: The Extraordinary Form & Function of Bones
Skeletons is an illustrated guide that explores the form and function of bones and anatomy structures of animals. It talks about how bones function and plays a part in life, and explains why bones look...
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Book Review: Drawing Trees and Leaves: Observing and Sketching the Natural World
This book is a collaboration between artist Julia Kuo and naturalist Michael Wojtech. I bought this book because of the beautiful illustrations by Julia Kuo. I love the line art and clean colouring...
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Book Review: Buildings of London by Roger Fitzgerald
The bold use of texture and splatter on the cover of this book really caught my attention. The artist is Roger Fitzgerald, an architect from London with more than 30 years of experience. This 72-page...
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Book Review: Loka Made: Artbook #1 by FeiGiap
FeiGiap is a Malaysian artist whose works are inspired by Makoto Shinkai, Imperial Boy's work in Tekkonkinkreet and Hayao Miyazaki. It seems like FeiGiap's interest is in painting rustic landscapes and...
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Book Review: Cut and Fold Paper Textures: Techniques for Surface Design
Paper is usually used as a medium to be drawn or painted on, sometimes used to make origami or paper art. This new book by Paul Jackson shows you that you can also use paper to create different...
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Book Review: Re-child by Zeen Chin
Have you ever been to an art gallery where you are attracted by a painting, and would admire it much longer there than other paintings? It's like you want to move on so that you can see all the other...
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Book Review: Sketching from the Imagination: Characters
This is the fourth book in the Sketching from the Imagination series. The earlier three were on creative drawing, fantasy and sci-fi.All the good things that I've said for the other books apply here as...
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Book Review: Fate/Complete Material Volume 2: Character Material
Here's the second artbook for Fate/Stay Night. The first artbook was released in 2014 and covered cutscenes, visual effects and promotional art. This artbook focuses on character design and weapons....
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