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Book Review: The Deluxe Collection Part 2 by Lorenzo Etherington
Special thanks to Lorenzo Etherington for sending me this humongous 600-page sketchbook. The sketchbook was originally put on Kickstarter and the campaign was successful with 174 backers.The book a 8.5...
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Book Review: Designing Creatures and Characters: How to Build an Artist's...
Designing Creatures and Characters is a book targeted at concept artists who want to improve their skills at drawing creatures and characters. This 192-page paperback is packed with lots of tips and...
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Book Review: Les Carnets d'Alger 2 by Catherine Rossi
Thanks to Mehdi, a viewer of my Youtube channel, for giving me this book. Alger is the French name for Algiers, the capital of Algeria, North Africa.This hardcover watercolour sketchbook features...
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Book Review: Drawn from Life: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Techniques
Helen Birch's new book follows the same presentation format as her earlier two books, Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art and Just Add Watercolor: Inspiration and Painting Techniques...
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Book Review: Florence Sketchbook by Fabrice Moireau
Here's another wonderful sketchbook by Fabrice Moireau. If you haven't seen his work, you should definitely check them out. With this latest sketchbook, he covers Florence in Italy. As usual, there are...
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Book Review: VISCERAL: The art of Jason Edmiston
VISCERAL is a fantastic tribute to the years worth of paintings that Jason Edmiston has created. This 288-page hardcover is a bit pricey but definitely worth the money as it's packed with wonderful art...
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Book Review: 5-Minute Sketching -- People: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing...
This book by Pete Scully is one of the books in the 5-Minute Sketching series. The other one's by Liz Steel and it covers architecture.As mentioned in the other review, mine's the version published by...
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Book Review: The LEGO Batman Movie: The Making of the Movie
I actually enjoyed this book tremendously more than the movie itself. I'm not sure if there was any book for the first LEGO movie but I'm glad they have one for LEGO Batman. This 200-page hardcover is...
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Book Review: The Art of Archer
This is a terrific companion for the series that fans will be delighted at.It's not just an artbook but also covers the production process extensively. There are lots of interviews with the cast and...
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Book Review: Colour and Line in Watercolour by Glen Scouller
This is a lovely artbook by Glen Scouller, a Scottish artist living in Ayrshire. I was drawn by the expressive drawing on the cover to get this book. It's not a style that I see often when it comes to...
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Book Review: Assassin's Creed: Into the Animus
This movie companion covers the production process of the film. It features lots of behind the scenes photography, interviews with the crew and cast, and has lots of info on the film production. This...
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Explore The Paleozoic in five long 108-inch Illustrations
A reader Estrella Vega alerted me to his recently published books which look really awesome. The books are about the Paleozoic, the period of time before dinosaurs roamed the earth. There are 5...
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Book Review: The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts
Zelda is such a classic game that so many gamers hold dearly to their heart. The earlier artbook The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia is the only video game artbook that I know of that has over 2,000...
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Book Review: The Art of Mass Effect: Andromeda
Not all Mass Effect games have artbooks so it's great to have one for the latest one in the series, Mass Effect: Andromeda. The other two that I have are The Art of Mass Effect (2007) and The Art of...
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Book Review: David Hockney: Current
This is the book published to go with the exhibition by the same name that ran from 11 November 2016 to 13 March 2017 at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. I'm not a David Hockney fan per se but...
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Book Review: The Art of The Boss Baby
This is a pretty decent companion for Boss Baby.Half of the 168-page hardcover features character designs. They've included lots of concept art for each character. I enjoy looking at the caricature or...
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Book Review: The Art of Horizon Zero Dawn
Finally, Guerrilla Games have decided to release an artbook to go with their newly release game. The only other artbook I have from them was Killzone Visual Design and that was really good. It's good...
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Book Review: Modern Calligraphy by Molly Suber Thorpe
I recently began learning calligraphy, and thankfully, Modern Calligraphy by Molly Suber Thorpe has helped me tremendously in learning the ropes. (I would have been fumbling around lost without some...
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Book Review: Claire Wendling: Forget Me Not
Here's a wonderful sketchbook by Claire Wendling from 2016.It's a collection of fantasy character sketches, more specifically more of fairies and other female characters. It's almost like a figure...
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Book Review: Print & Pattern: Nature by Bowie Style
All the Print and Pattern books by Bowie Style so far have all be delightful. Each book is a huge source of inspiration and a fantastic reference.The latest book is still in the same paperback format...
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