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Book Review: Urban Sketching: 9 days in Sri Lanka
Mike Yoshiaki Daikubara is an industrial design, graphic designer and avid urban sketcher. Whenever he goes on vacation, he would sketch, a lot. He has self published several travelogue sketchbooks...
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Book Review: Drawing Expressive People (The Urban Sketching Handbook)
This book is one to get if you want to, as the title suggest, draw expressive people.Róisín Curé (pronounced RO-sheen CYUR-ay) is an illustrator and teacher based in Galway, Ireland. She started urban...
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Book Review: Layers of Looking by Ian Fennelly
Layers of Looking is the sketchbook of Ian Fennelly, an artist, teacher, urban sketcher based in UK. This book has more than 100 sketches accompanied by stories and tips on sketching, making art.The...
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Book Review: How to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Guide to Visual...
How to Be a Children’s Book Illustrator: A Guide to Visual Storytelling is written by children book illustrator Ruth Hammond, and published by 3DTotal Publishing.It's a 268-page hardcover that covers...
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Book Review: Eternal Journey by James Jean
Eternal Journey is the catalog artbook featuring the artworks from James Jean's 2019 solo exhibition at the Lotte Museum of Art in South Korea. If you're a fan or collector of James Jean's art, this is...
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Book Review: The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian
This artbook is pretty much a must buy if you're into Star Wars and/or The Mandolorian. The book's a 256-page large format hardcover that the features the concept art from The Mandolorian season 1.The...
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Book Review: Gorillaz Almanac
Gorillaz Almanac is just a fun excuse to come up with a Gorillaz artbook. According to the editor Beatrix Blotter, this almanac is "inspired by the British tradition of comic and pop music annuals,...
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Book Review: BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development
This huge 328-page hardcover is for the BioWare fans. Author Ben Gelinas has done a good job distilling 25 years of history into this beautiful book. This is the book to get if you want to learn more...
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Book Review: The Art of Immortals: Fenyx Rising
Immortals: Fenyx Rising presents an interesting take on Greek mythology. The style here is more cartoony and stylized compared to the nitty gritty look from God of War. This style actually reminds me...
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Book Review: Over the Moon: Illuminating the Journey
Over the Moon is a 2020 3D animated movie directed by Glen Keane, produced by Pearl Studio and Netflix Animation. Pearl Studio had produced the 3D animated movie Abominable in 2019 which I kinda...
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Book Review: Komorebi: The Art of Djamila Knopf
Djamila Knopf is a freelance illustrator based in Leipzig, Germany. She is well known for her anime-influenced characters and backgrounds. She's definitely at the level where she can illustrate...
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Review: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Official Artworks is a 304-page paperback video game artbook companion. This is the English translation of the original Japanese artbook which was published in 2019. The page...
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Review: Tokyo Ghoul:re Illustrations by Sui Ishida
This is a 296-page hardcover packed with Tokyo Ghoul:re artworks from Sui Ishida. The artworks are full-coloured illustrations published from 2014 onwards in Young Jump, sketches, social media...
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Book Review: The Art of the Mass Effect Trilogy: Expanded Edition
This 264-page hardcover artbook collects the concept art for Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 and art from the ME2's DLCs Kasumi – Stolen Memory, Overlord, Lair of the Shadow Broker, and Arrival and ME3's DLCs...
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Book Review: Spider-Man: Miles Morales The Art of the Game
This is the huge hardcover video game artbook companion for Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The book's published by Titan Books and there are 192-pages. This book is packed with beautiful concept art for...
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Book Review: Monster Hunter: World - Official Complete Works
This is the English edition to the original Japanese artbook DIVE TO MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD モンスターハンター:ワールド 公式設定資料集 which was released in January 2019. This book was translated and published by Viz...
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Book Review: Character Design Quarterly 14
Volume 14 of Character Design Quarterly features art and interviews withIzzy BurtonJennifer YangTim ProbertJustin RodriguesFaustine MerleMarcio Ucci and Rick ThieleToshiki NakamuraEleonore PelluauLobon...
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Review: Lee Hammond's All New Big Book of Drawing: Beginner's Guide to...
This book from Lee Hammond is on creating realistic drawing with pencils and coloured pencils. The book waste no time and jumps quickly into the tutorials. There are 88 tutorials split between graphite...
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Book Review: Once more unto the breach: Samurai Warriors and Heroes in...
This is a wonderful collection of Ukiyo-e art that go with Japanese history, stories, folklore and legend. Ukiyo-e art came from the Edo period (1603 to 1867) of Japan. Ukiyo-e were mostly woodblock...
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Book Review: How To Make Capcom Fighting Characters: Street Fighter Character...
This is the English edition of the original Japanese edition ストリートファイター キャラクターメイキング which was published in 2018. The publisher is Udon Entertainment.The book's a 288-page large format hardcover book....
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