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Book Review: Why is Art Full of Naked People?: And other vital questions...

I noticed Laurence King Publishers has been making art more accessible to the general public with some of the books they have published, this one included. The books I'm talking about are the This is...

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Book Review: Art in Detail: 100 Masterpieces

This is a fantastic book for those who want to learn more about paintings from the past, more specifically about the stories and hidden meanings inside the paintings. There are 100 paintings featured...

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Tower of Raziel: Apocrypha

Recently, I was contacted by a reader and fellow artist Karin Regenass regarding her new book called Tower of Raziel: Apocrypha. Here's how she describes the book in her own words:The book is a dark...

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Book Review: Portraits: Louis Thomas

This book was sent to me by Gallery Nucleus. Thanks, guys! I won't have known that this book existed otherwise.Louis Thomas is an artist who has worked for Pixar, Laika, Cartoon Network and Sony...

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Book Review: Day of the Dead and Other Works

*Thanks to Korero Press for providing me with this book for reviewSylvia Ji is a painter based in San Francisco who focuses on portraiture art. You can check out over 10 years worth of art on her...

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Book Review: The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island

This is a decent artbook companion to the film. It's sort of like a mixed bag but thankfully mostly positive.The actual title of the book is The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island. Some places, like...

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Book Review: GRAPHITE 2 Magazine by 3DTotal

GRAPHITE is a new quarterly art magazine created by 3DTotal. I really enjoyed their first volume a few months ago and now the second one is out. Each volume features certain subjects and in this volume...

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Book Review: The Art of Ghost in the Shell

This is actually a pretty decent artbook for the live action Ghost in the Shell film, regardless of whether you like or hate it.This is a huge artbook that measures 9.5 by 13 inches. Comes with 160...

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Book Review: Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory

For the longest time, I've put off getting this book because I did not like the art on the cover. The cover art did not look nice enough for a book that talks about colour theory. I bought this book...

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Book Review: Strokes Of Genius 8: Expressive Texture

Strokes of Genius is a series that features art from top artists around the world. The collection of art featured are curated by Rachel Rubin Wolf, who's also the author for the Splash series of...

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Book Review: The Paleozoic concertina picture book by Estrella Vega

Many weeks ago, an artist Estrella Vega contacted me regarding this book that he/she's publishing. It's actually a series of books called The Paleozoic, that's a period from 541 to 252.17 million years...

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Book Review: Encyclopedia of Rainbows: Our World Organized by Color

This book has the interesting concept of arranging the things we can find in our world into a colour spectrum, just like a rainbow. The author and artist is Julie Seabrook Ream who has an Instagram...

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Book Review: Hand Lettering A to Z: A World of Creative Ideas for Drawing and...

Today I featuringHand Lettering A to Z: A World of Creative Ideas for Drawing and Designing Alphabets by Abbey Sy. The contents of this book consist of the following topics: Tools &...

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Book Review: The Art of Evolve

Update 5 June 2017: Amazon US is discounting this at 58%.Wonderful artbookVideo game developer Turtle Rock Studios has generously packed this 192-page hardcover with lots of wonderful concept art from...

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Book Review: FINAL FANTASY XIV: HEAVENSWARD | The Art of Ishgard - Stone and...

This is the second Final Fantasy XIV artbook. It features artworks from Heavensward, FFIV's first expansion pack and includes patches 2.4 and 2.5. This artbook has the same presentation style as the...

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Book Review: Flow Book For Paper Lovers Vol 4

The moment I laid my hands on this book, I thought it was such a brilliant idea to have a book like this. The Flow Book is actually a 300+ page book filled with paper goodies that you can either tear...

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Book Review: Bloodborne Official Artworks (Udon publication)

I have actually reviewed the Japanese edition last year. There's actually not a lot of text in this artbook so you can either get the Japanese edition or the English edition (published by Udon...

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Book Review: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: The Art of the Movie

Oh yeah, the Guardians are back. Just like most Marvel movie artbooks, this artbook comes with a slipcase. The book's a hardcover with 312 pages so it's satisfyingly thick.The book’s filled to the brim...

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Book Review: The Art of Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie

The cover of this book is nice. It's semi-reflective and the blue background looks metallic. That's pretty cool. If you are a fan of Captain Underpants books, you'll know the cute, childlike drawing...

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Book Review: The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Kaladesh

The artbooks that were released recently for Magic the Gathering are some of the very best fantasy artbooks available. I've previously released Innistrad and Zendikar. Amonkhet is coming in July...

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