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Book Review: The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Keep Painting!: A...
Gordon Mackenzie's new book Keep Painting! from The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook series is a wonderful collection of tips, techniques and ideas for anyone who uses watercolour. His previous book,...
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Book Review: Fantasy Genesis Characters: A creativity game for drawing...
In 2010, Chuck Lukacs release an incredibly fun instructional art book by the name of Fantasy Genesis which was such a gem that more people should know of. It's great to see another book from him after...
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Book Review: 50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life: Practical Lessons...
50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life is a special edition book from Flow Magazine, a Dutch art and design magazine about creativity, art and artists. Occasionally, they will release special...
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Book Review: Gallery by Gianluca Mattia
Gallery is the self published artbook of illustrator and graphic designer Gianluca Mattia. My copy was actually sent over from him. I've heard from him that this 92-page paperback edition is sort of...
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Book Review: All the Buildings in Paris: That I've Drawn So Far
I really enjoy James Gulliver Hancock's All the Buildings series of books and now he has a new one on Paris. The two other books I have are on London and New York.Featured in this 64-page hardcover...
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Book Review: Sicily Sketchbook by Fabrice Moireau
Sicily Sketchbook is another stunning book from Fabrice Moireau, the artist architect who already has so many amazing books under his name. I'm not just a big fan of his work, but I'm also extremely...
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Book Review: Tomb Raider: The Art and Making of the Film
This is one of those "art and making of" books that does not have much art. This is really a film production book. If you're expecting an artbook with concept art, you'll be sorely disappointed. If you...
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Book Review: 入夜识 by FLZC (Evening knowledge)
I managed to discover an unusual artbook from Basheer Graphic Books during my last visit. The book had a tri-fold hardcover that's not glued to the book which has an exposed stitched spine. The book's...
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Book Review: Gustav Klimt: Drawings and Paintings
Here's the third book on Gustav Klimt's life and career of paintings, this time in a small, more portable handcover format. The first two books that were also published by publisher Taschen were the XL...
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Book Review: 野作 (Ink of Wild) Book 1 by Zao Dao
Here's another wonderful artbook from Chinese artist 早稻 (Zao Dao). His previous artbook 松風 (SONG OF SYLVAN by ZAODAO) was one of my favourites from 2015. 野作 (Ink of Wild) is a two book set. I've made...
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Book Review: 野作 (Ink of Wild) Book 2 by Zao Dao
Here's the second book from the 野作 (Ink of Wild) set. I forgot to mention in the first review that these two books are not sold separately, so you have to get them as a set. The second book is a...
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Book Review: Early Bird: Art of Kelsey Eng
Here's the personal artbook of Kelsey Eng, an illustrator based in Burbank, California who's currently working at DreamWorks. Her illustrations are beautiful, characters lively and colours lovely. You...
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Book Review: The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story
Here's another excellent artbook from the Star Wars movie franchise. If you have bough the two earlier movie artbooks, Rogue One and The Last Jedi, then you can expect the same level of detail and...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of Pacific Rim Uprising
This movie companion Pacific Rim's sequel is a decent art and making of book, but not as good as the first book though.This book is a mix of concept art and film production stories. Let's talk about...
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Book Review: The Art of God of War (2018)
I'm a big fan of God of War, the game, the art and the Greek mythology. It's one thing to read about Greek gods and their stories, but it's something else entirely to experience the stories visually,...
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Book Review: Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: The Art of the Movie
Marvel Studios is on a roll, no doubt about it. They have their formula for making blockbuster hits. They also have a formula to making fantastic artbooks, which is to pack loads of great art into a...
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Book Review: Dancing with Light: The Art of Robert O. Caulfield
Special thanks to Lorelle Caulfield Govoni for sending me this review copy.The story of Robert O. Caulfield is an interesting one. But you really can't tell just by looking at the immense collection of...
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Book Review: Hand Drawing for Landscape Design: Basic Training
I found a gem of a book at Basheer Graphic Books a few days ago and it happens to be published by them as well. The boss told me that they publish translated books occasionally and this looks like one...
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Book Review: Tokyo Storefronts by Mateusz Urbanowicz
Tokyo Storefronts by Mateusz Urbanowicz is one of my favourite artbooks of 2018. The Japanese title is 東京店構え マテウシュ・ウルバノヴィチ作品集. Mateusz Urbanowicz is an artist from Poland who's currently working in...
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Book Review: Wine Country: Impressions in Oil by Erin Hanson
Wine Country: Impressions in Oil is one of my favourite artbooks of 2018, and it's also one of the best I've seen this year. Erin Hanson has been painting since she was a kid, and started commissioning...
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