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

This is the second MtG artbooks in 2018. The first was Ixalan. I don't think you can ever get tired of these books. The art continues to marvel me every time. MtG has some of the best fantasy artworks...

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Book Review: Digital Painting in Photoshop: Industry Techniques for Beginners

Before I talk about this book, I have to talk about another Photoshop digital painting book that 3dtotal Publishing published in 2012 called Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop. That book...

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Book Review: Draw Your Day: An Inspiring Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal

Artist and author Samatha Dion Baker is a full-time illustrator who likes to sketch in journals. Her journal art on Instagram has a huge following.In this 144-page paperback, Baker hopes to inspire...

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Book Review: Dark Souls III: Design Works

Dark Souls is the only video game series in my opinion that produces the most soulful art. The whole mood, vibe and atmosphere of the environment is one of dread and gloom. The whole Dark Souls world...

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Book Review: The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia

This one of three compendiums published recently on Zelda. It covers basically all that were not covered in the earlier two books, The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts and The Legend of Zelda:...

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Book Review: The Art of Crayon: Draw, Color, Resist, Sculpt, Carve!

This is wonderful book for those who use crayons, or those who are interested to pick up drawing with crayons. This 160-page paperback features some rather amazing artworks that were created with...

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Book Review: Of Happiness by William Sim

Of Happiness is the companion artbook of William Sim's 2018 Exhibition "Happiness Private Limited #10".This huge 288-page paperback artbook collects 10 years worth of artworks from William, a freelance...

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Book Review: Portraits: Illustrious People by Jorge Arevalo

A trip to the library allowed me to discover this delightful book of caricature portrait drawings by Jorge Arevalo.Portraits: Illustrious People is a large 162-page paperback published by Promopress...

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Book Review: Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War - The Art of the Movie

This is yet another wonderful addition to the MCU movie artbooks. We have the slipcase, again, and this time there are 336 pages in this hardcover. It's a thick book filled to the brim with concept art...

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Book Review: The Art of Assassin's Creed Odyssey

The art and design of Assassin's Creed has always be a delight to look at. I love the character designs and environment art. And I'm happy to see that this book is packed with them. This is a large...

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Book Review: The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag

It's so good to see Simon Stålenhag back with another breathtaking collection of paintings. His earlier books, Tales from the Loop and Things from the Flood are masterpieces at visual storytelling. You...

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Book Review: Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed...

This book is for those who want to use art as a creative outlet, for those who want to enjoy the process rather than worry about the outcome. This is not the sort of art I'm into but I can see why...

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Book Review: Strokes of Genius 10: Inspiring Subjects

Here's another delightful volume of artworks from the Strokes of Genius, an artbook series that features some of the best hand drawn art. The variety of media used include charcoal, graphic, pastel,...

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Book Review: Drawing Portraits: A Practical Course for Artists

If I'm not wrong, this 2018 edition book by Barrington Barber is the revised edition of The Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits which was published in 2016. The 2016 edition has 208 pages while the 2018...

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Book Review: A Watercolour a Day: 365 Tips and Ideas for Improving Your...

A Watercolour A Day by Oscar Asensio is a collection of watercolour tips and techniques to inspire creativity and help you improve with the medium. The tips can be split into the hands-on tips and the...

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Book Review: The Joy of Watercolor: 40 Happy Lessons for Painting the World...

The Joy of Watercolor is a fun instructional hands-on book with 40 watercolour projects you can paint. The art you're about the create are as lovely as the ones shown on the cover.Emma Block is a...

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Book Review: 5-Minute Watercolor: Super-quick Techniques for Amazing...

5-minute Watercolor is the fifth book in the 5-minute art series. The earlier books covered subject matter, this book covers a medium, watercolour. The artist and author is Samantha Nielsen...

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Book Review: Fast and Fun Watercolor: Painting Techniques, No Drawing Required!

This book is quite similar Paint, Play, Explore that I reviewed recently. Both books are on mixed media art, but with this book, it uses more watercolour.Fast & Fun Watercolor by Gina Lee Kim very...

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Book Review: Awakening Your Creative Soul: A 52-Week Journey to Artistic...

Publisher North Light Books have been putting many mixed media art books recently. The two that I reviewed earlier were Fast & Fun Watercolor and Paint, Play, Explore. Awakening Your Creative Soul...

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Book Review: The Art of Google Spotlight Stories

Special thanks to Gallery Nucleus for sending over the book for this review.First of all, if you haven't downloaded the Google Spotlight Stories app (Android | iOS), stop reading now and go download...

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