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Book Review: The Eyes of Bayonetta 2
Kudos to publisher Udon Entertainment for translating yet another Japanese video game artbook to English. The original Japanese artbook ベヨネッタ2 公式設定資料集 was released in 2014, the same year as Bayonetta 2...
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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: Watercolour Enigma, The: A Complete Painting Course Revealing...
The first edition of this book is called The Watercolour Enigma : Science of the Medium and was published in 2014 by Arc Publishing and Print. This edition that I'm reviewing is the 2018 edition...
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Book Review: Alita: Battle Angel - The Art and Making of the Movie
This is a terrific book for Alita: Battle Angel that features the concept art and covers the movie production in detail. The book's a huge and heavy 232-page hardcover published by Titan Books, written...
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Book Review: The Cinematic Art of StarCraft
In 2013, Blizzard Entertainment released The Art of Blizzard Entertainment which featured the art for World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo. There was Starcraft art but StarCraft is a huge game and...
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Book Review: Seville from Top to Bottom by Inma Serrano
Seville from the Top to Bottom is a beautiful artbook of sketches drawn by Inma Serrano (Instagram), an artist and illustration teacher based in Seville. This 96-paperback is a personal travel journal...
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Book Review: Drawing and Sketching: Expert Answers to the Questions Every...
This book is meant to be an introduction to different types of drawing media. Since the book covers plenty of media, eg graphic, charcoal, coloured pencils, pastels and inks. The book is on drawing and...
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Book Review: The Big Kopinski Volume 1
Big thanks to publisher Éditions Caurette for sending over this book for this review.Karl Kopinski is an illustrator born and based in Nottingham, UK. He has worked for movies, game studios and is...
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Book Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -The Art of the Movie
It's refreshing to see a superhero movie done in a style that's no live action nowadays. Looking at Spider-Verse just makes me wish that there are more of such animated movies around that aren't afraid...
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Book Review: Garis: An Anthology of Sketches by Johor Sketchers
Garis: An Anthology of Sketches is a sketchbook put out by the Johor Sketchers. Johor is one of the states in Malaysia. This sketchbook features the sketches of Taib Aur, Tok Rimau, Penglakar Lara,...
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Book Review: Making Marks: Architects' Sketchbooks - The Creative Process
Making Marks: Architects' Sketchbooks is a huge 320-page hardcover that features the architecture sketches of 60 architects and artists. This is actually the second volume to the first which was...
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Book Review: The Art of Over the Garden Wall
This is the companion artbook for Over the Garden Wall, an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network.This 184-page hardcover is filled with concept art,...
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Book Review: Captain Marvel: The Art of the Movie
As expected, this is another wonderful artbook for another one of Marvel's films and this time it's Captain Marvel. While the overall vibe of the book is still that of a typical Marvel movie artbook...
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Book Review: The Art of Bravely Default
The Art of Bravely Default is a wonderful artbook companion for the Nintendo 3DS RPG Bravely Default released in 2012.This book is actually the English translated version of the original Japanese...
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Book Review: Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography-Beyond the Fantasy
This 336-page hardcover is an excellent biography on Yoshitaka Amano, the artist most popularly known for his art for Vampire Hunter D and Final Fantasy. Author and biographer Florent Gorges has done a...
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Book Review: Posy Simmonds: The Illustrators
This 112-page hardcover is a wonderful biographical tribute to British illustrator Posy Simmonds. She's known for her work at Guardian newspaper, her graphic novels Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and...
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Book Review: Drawing Masterclass: Perspective by Tim Fisher
I have featured many perspective drawing books on my blog before and this book from Tim Fisher is one of the better ones. This book has a good coverage on the different aspects of perspective, eg zero...
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Book Review: The Art of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The art is this book is very beautiful. I really enjoy the visuals from How to Train Your Dragon. It's a perfect blend of art and technology. I love the caricature designs that really push looks of the...
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Book Review: Shadow of the Tomb Raider The Official Art Book
Fans who can't get enough of the game should probably check out this book. It's a wonderful game art companion to Shadow of the Tomb Raider.The bulk of concept art is split between character designs...
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Book Review: The Art of Anthem
This is a terrific companion artbook for Bioware's latest game Anthem. The book's a 208-page hardcover that's packed with amazing sci-fi concept art. The artworks included are for the characters, space...
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