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Book Review: The Art of Map Illustration: A step-by-step artistic exploration...
This is a fun instructional book on how you can create your own illustrative maps.This book has ideas on all the different things you can draw and include in your maps. It also talks about the...
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Book Review: The Big Book of the Blue by Yuval Zommer
I love picture books with beautiful illustrations. And this book by Yuval Zommer has 64 wonderfully illustrated pages of the fish and living creatures that inhabit the ocean. Even the index pages are...
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Book Review: Paper Poetry: Creative Papercutting Projects
This 144-page paperback collects tutorials and beautiful examples of paper cut art that Helene and Simone Bendix have created over the years.Every page in this book is beautifully laid out. The...
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Book Review: Mastering the Art of Watercolour: Mixing Paint by Wendy Jelbert...
The publisher Hermes House, which is an imprint of Anness Publishing, has some art instructional books selling at really affordable prices online. This particular book that I bought was only less than...
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Book Review: Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings by...
Random Imaginations is a collection of thumbnail sketches from Eddie Chau, a landscape architect from San Francisco Bay Area. Over the course of 27 years, he has drawn close to 5,000 of these thumbnail...
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Book Review: Mastering the Art of Drawing & Painting the Human Figure:...
Mastering the Art of Drawing & Painting the Human Figure is another insightful and affordable book from publisher Hermes House. I've featured another one of their books before, Mastering the Art of...
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Book Review: Just for Fun: Perspective: More than 100 fun and simple...
Just for Fun: Perspective is a accessible book for beginners who want to learn perspective but think that it's a complicated subject. Well, perspective is complicated, but in this book, all the basics...
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Book Review: Nuthin' But Mech 4
This is the fourth and last book in the Nuthin' but Mech series. I actually thought this series would go on forever since there are artists are always creating and putting out content. But it's a good...
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Book Review: Marvel's Spider-Man: The Art of the Game
I haven't played the game yet but saw a few gameplay trailers and graphics looked so detailed and immersive. This artbook is a good companion to the game but I wished there were even more content. If...
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Book Review: Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross
It's so great to see another career-spanning artbook from Alex Ross. There have been many Alex Ross artbooks released over the years. The most definitive ones are Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex...
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Book Review: The Art of Brush Lettering: A Stroke-by-Stroke Guide to the...
This is a comprehensive and accessible book for beginners who want to pick up the beautiful art of brush lettering. Kelly Klapstein is a teacher who teaches lettering and she has a lot of work on her...
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Book Review: Kawaii Doodle Class: Sketching Super-Cute Tacos, Sushi, Clouds,...
Kawaii Doodle Class is a book filled with exercises on turning mundane looking things into cute drawings. Envelopes, mugs, sushi, fries, vegetables, spoon, soft drink, basically anything, everything,...
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Book Review: The Art of Makoto Shinkai's Your Name 新海誠監督作品 君の名は - 美術画集
When I watched Makoto Shinkai's Your Name for the first time, I was mesmerized, again, by the breathtaking background art that's used in the movie. The whole film is a work of art, one that I can watch...
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Book Review: Portfolio: Expressive Painting: Tips and techniques for...
Expressive Painting is an apt title for this 128-page paperback. I was actually drawn to this book because of the beautiful splashy painting on the cover by Joseph Stoddard. There are many more such...
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Book Review: Illustration: What's the Point? by Mouni Feddag
I bought this book because I like the rather whimsical drawings of Mouni Feddag while I was browsing the book. The title is quite catchy. Illustration: What's the Point?: A Book of Illustrated...
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Book Review: Sketching from the Imagination: Dark Arts
I'm a big fan of the Sketching from the Imagination series of books from 3DTotal Publishing. I wish that this series would never end. This latest book, once again, features a wonderful amount of...
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Book Review: Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana (Special Edition)
Dungeons and Dragons is a classic when it comes to tabletop RPG. It's great to see that this book has done such a good job at examining the evolution of the game with a good use of visuals. Old players...
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Book Review: The Sketch Encyclopedia: Over 1,000 drawing projects
The Sketch Encyclopedia is a 432-page thick hardcover that's filled with drawing exercises for those who want get better at drawing. There are 900 subjects for you to draw. As the saying goes, practice...
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Book Review: The Sketchbook of Loish: Art in progress
This is Lois van Baarle's (aka Loish) second artbook. The first artbook The Art of Loish: A Look Behind the Scenes featured her many gorgeously painted illustrations. This second artbook takes a more...
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Book Review: The Art of Incredibles 2
Looking at The Art of the Incredibles 2 reminds me of the first few Pixar artbooks that I've reviewed. It's so good to seen the inclusion of more hand drawn and concept art rather than finalised film...
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