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Book Review: Art & Design of Final Fantasy XV
Final Fantasy games usually don't have artbooks so it's always great to see one, and this one in particular is enormous and gorgeous. Art & Design of Final Fantasy XV is a collaboration between...
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Book Review: The Big Bad World of Concept Art for Video Games: How to Start...
Here's the sequel to Eliott Lilly's earlier book Big Bad World of Concept Art for Video Games: An Insider's Guide for Students that I had reviewed way back in 2015. The first book is a guide on what...
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Book Review: The Ultimate Concept Art Career Guide
The Ultimate Concept Art Career Guide is a book for those who might be interested in a concept art career. This is an informative and insightful guide that talks about the different aspects of such a...
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Book Review: The Art of Jamie Hewlett
The Art of Jamie Hewlett is a stunning book released recently by Taschen that features the beautiful art that Hewlett has created over the last 25 years. That's over two decades spent creating art and...
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Book Review: Urban Sketchbook Band I: Skizzenbuchseiten von Urban Sketchern...
Urban Sketchbook Band I is a sketchbook that features beautiful sketches drawn in Germany by 40 artists around the world. This book is edited by Sebastian Koch, an illustrator and animator from...
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Book Review: The Little Book of Amazing Spider-Man
Publisher Taschen has added some new titles to their Little Book series and sent some over for me to check out. The titles that I have are for Spider-man, The Avengers and Captain America. Each book is...
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Book Review: The Little Book of Captain America
Publisher Taschen has added some new titles to their Little Book series and sent some over for me to check out. Each book is a palm-sized 192-page paperback that's quite affordably priced at US...
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Book Review: The Little Book of Avengers
Publisher Taschen has added some new titles to their Little Book series and sent some over for me to check out. Each book is a palm-sized 192-page paperback that's quite affordably priced at US...
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Book Review: The Art of Destiny, Volume 2
The first companion artbook for Destiny was really amazing, and it's great to see that the same level of awesome-ness is retained. Once again we have a huge 216-page hardcover concept artbook....
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Book Review: The Art of Persona 5
If you're a big fan of Persona 5, then you probably won't want to miss this companion artbook. I've featured several Persona artbooks before and they were published by Udon Entertainment. This book was...
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Book Review: The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist
Syd Mead is an artist that I would consider is ahead of his time. The sci-fi art that he has created for films decades ago still hold up well, and still look really cool even by today's standard. This...
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Book Review: Everyday Sketching and Drawing: Five Steps to a Unique and...
Steven Reddy's personal sketchbooks and Craftsy courses have been featured on my blog before and they were pretty good. Everyday Sketching and Drawing seems like the first instructional book from him....
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Book Review: The Art of Ferdinand
This is a lovely companion artbook for Blue Sky Studio's latest animated film Ferdinand. The concept art consists of sketches, coloured illustrations, paintings of the characters and environments, and...
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Book Review: Howling at the Moon by Jakub Rozalski
Special thanks to Jakub Rozalski for sending me this early preview copy of his latest artbook that's called Howling at the Moon. This is a large wide format hardcover artbook with 160 pages. The book...
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Book Review: Black Panther: The Art of the Movie
This is a wonderful movie companion artbook for fans of the film, Black Panther or superhero stuff. Instead of having 240 pages as listed on Amazon, it actually has 296 pages. So it's a pretty thick...
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Book Review: Barcelona Sketchbook: Homage to Catalan Architecture by Graham...
Graham Byfield is back with another large format hardcover watercolour sketchbook. This time it features Barcelona of Spain. I've been to Barcelona before so the places that I've been to and are...
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Book Review: Madrid: Acuarelas De Viaje by Fernando Blasco
I only got to know of this book through a recommendation from a reader, so thank you whoever you are.Madrid: Acuarelas De Viaje is a beautiful watercolour sketchbook with illustrations from Fernando...
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Book Review: Vision: Color and Composition for Film by Hans Bacher
Hans Bacher is a veteran production designer with more than four decades of experience in the animation film industry. He has worked on Disney classics such as Lion King, Mulan, Aladdin and many other...
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Book Review: Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford (Art Essentials Series)
This book is part of publisher Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series, a new art book series that's meant to be small, smart and essential. Looking at Pictures by Susan Woodford is compact-sized...
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Book Review: Modern Art by Amy Dempsey (Art Essentials Series)
Modern Art by Amy Dempsey is another book from Thames & Hudson's Art Essentials series. The previous book I reviewed, Looking at Pictures, looked at art in general and their meaning. Modern Art...
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