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Book Review: Hellboy: The Art of The Motion Picture
This is a rather decent movie art companion for the new Hellboy film. It's better than I expected. The character designs consist mostly of cut outs from film stills, much like those glamour portrait...
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Book Review: The Art of Days Gone
The Art of Days Done is a large 216-page hardcover that's packed with wonderful concept art. By "packed", I mean it's filled to the edge of the pages with art. There's almost no white space in this...
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Book Review: Sketching from the Imagination: Creatures & Monsters
This is the sixth book in the Sketching from the Imagination series. It's always great to see another book from this wonderful series. This time the subject matter is on creatures and monsters,...
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Book Review: NieR: Automata World Guide Volume 1
NieR: Automata World Guide Volume 1 is the companion video game artbook. This is actually the English translated edition of the original Japanese edition which was published in 2017. The presentation...
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Book Review: Strengthen Your Paintings With Dynamic Composition
This is a fantastic book for those who want to improve their composition for painting. It covers many techniques and has a lot for you to think about. And that I think is the highlight of this book, to...
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Book Review: Painting Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Artists
Painting Masterclass is a 288-page paperback book published by Thames and Hudson that features the techniques used in 100 paintings from some of the greatest artists. The book starts off with an...
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Book Review: How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters
Collected in this 400-page paperback edition is an introduction to selected paintings from 1855 to 1986 around the modern art era.This book is more of an introduction than a technical guide on how to...
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Book Review: Colors of Asia: Painting by Francesco Lietti
When Italian-born artist Francesco Lietti visited Hong Kong in 2005, he was so inspired by what he saw and felt that he moved to live there in 2006. Since then, he has been creating artworks inspired...
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Book Review: Webb on Watercolor
Webb on Watercolor is an insightful book filled with insight and knowledge from Frank Webb, a professional artist who has been painting since 1947. This book was originally published in 1990 and this...
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Book Review: Working with Color (The Urban Sketching Handbook)
This is the fifth addition to the Urban Handbook series. The author this time is urban sketcher, painter and teacher Shari Blaukopf whose work I'm a big fan of. This 112-page paperback features tips by...
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Book Review: The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a 190-page hardcover companion book for the third film in the Monsterverse, Godzilla: King of Monsters. Just like the artbooks for Godzilla and Kong: Skull...
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Book Review: He Shi: Chen Yu Yu Works
This artbook by Chinese artist Chen Yu Yu features character designs inspired by the Rorschach test or inkblots. If you don't know what's a Rorschach test, it's basically patterns created by inkblots...
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Book Review: Disappear for a While by Dai Dai Yao
This is probably the first time I've featured such a "book" which is more like a scroll actually. This is an illustration "artbook" that's 24 metres long!Title of the book is Disappear for a While...
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Book Review: How to Draw: A Comprehensive Drawing Course by Ian Sidaway and...
How to Draw: A Comprehensive Drawing Course is a 352-page beginner's guide to drawing authored by Ian Sidaway and Susie Hodge. This book is for beginners who have no knowledge of drawing or what to...
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Book Review: The Watercolor Ideas Book
This is a book of ideas on the different types of styles and mixed media art you can create with watercolour. This 176-page paperback book is rather small, about the size of my hand. It's one of those...
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Book Review: The Road to Marvel's Avengers: Endgame - The Art of the Marvel...
This artbook is one that recaps the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to Endgame. While many of the artworks have already been featured in the earlier Marvel movie artbooks, they did included a...
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Book Review: Ocean by Hélène Druvert, Emmanuelle Grundmann
Ocean by Hélène Druvert, Emmanuelle Grundmann is a huge and beautiful 40-page hardcover book that talks about our oceans. The text is written in simple, accessible and engaging manner so the readers...
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Book Review: Sketch with Asia: Manga-inspired Art and Tutorials by Asia Ladowska
Here's another book from the 3dtotal illustrator series of artbooks. The other books I've featured so far are Cozy Days: The Art of Iraville and The Art of Heikala: Works and thoughts. Asia Ladowska is...
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Book Review: Cozy Days: The Art of Iraville
Ira Sluyterman van Langeweyde, aka Iraville, is an illustrator from Germany known for her charming watercolour art that she shares regularly online. She has a huge following on social media, with more...
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Book Review: Beyond the Shroud: A World Unseen by Mike Corriero
Beyond the Shroud: A World Unseen is the second sketchbook from Mike Corriero, a concept artist in the video game industry with almost three decades of experience. His first sketchbook Planet to...
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