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Book Review: Tahra Art by Kyoung Hwan Kim
Here's the artbook of South Korea concept designer and illustrator Kyoung Hwan Kim (website | facebook)It's a large 256-page hardcover with English and Korea text.From what I can see, the artworks are...
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Book Review: Daisuke Igarashi Artbook: Sea Creatures and Soul 五十嵐大介画集・海獣とタマシイ...
Here's the artbook of Daisuke Igarashi (五十嵐大介), a manga artist from Japan. The artbook features works from 1993, when he started his professional career, up to 2012.This is a two paperback book set...
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Book Review: Draw Occupy Wall Street
Draw Occupy Wall Street is one of the more powerful piece of journalistic or reportage work I've seen. From 20 October to 20 November 2011, Joshua Boulet from Texas went over to Manhattan to cover the...
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Book Review: The Superman Files
This is one huge 312-page thick dossier-like book made like it was put together by Brainiac 5.The quality of the book is great. I love the textured steel design of the cover. It's hardcover and they...
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Book Review: A Sketchbook by Wil Freeborn
My copy of Wil Freeborn's sketchbook is here. I bought it from his Etsy siteIt's a 44-page paperback A5-sized book. The book is quite thin and the watercolour sketches are very nice so it really makes...
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Book Review: Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes is a artbook by Michael Cho, an illustrator, cartoonist and occasional writer based in Toronto.The back alleys, streets and houses he drew in this book are near his...
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Book Review: Quotes Illustrated: 100 works of art inspired by words
Quotes Illustrated is an artbook with artworks inspired by quotes. Author Lesley Riley herself collects quotes she likes and she has set out to produce this book with contributed artworks. While the...
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Book Review: Motorcycle Graphics: Outsider Art, Graphics and Illustration
Motorcycle Graphics is an enjoyable and riotous collection of contemporary bike art put to put together by journalist Gary Inman who's also a biker himself, of course. It's a 256-page hardcover with...
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Book Review: The Eyes of Bayonetta: Art Book & DVD
It's great that publisher Udon has translated the original Japanese artbook ベヨネッタ設定資料集 (The Eyes of Bayonetta). The Japanese edition went out of stock pretty quickly and the DVD was region coded to...
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Book Review: Dark Souls: Design Works (English Edition)
The English translated edition of the Dark Souls artbook ダークソウルデザインワークズ is finally out. It's another good job at translating by publisher Udon. The book's still hardcover, 128 pages. The cover is...
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Book Review: Daisuke Moriyama Art Works: Chronicle
Daisuke Moriyama Art Works: Chronicle is the English translated edition of the original Japanese artbook 森山大輔画集 CHRONICLE that was released in 2012. Udon managed to get it out in English slightly more...
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Book Review: The Timeless Racer: Machines of a Time Traveling Speed Junkie
Daniel Simon who put out the amazing vehicle concept art book Cosmic Motors in 2007 is finally back with a new book in The Timeless Racer.After Cosmic Motors was published, he has went on to work on...
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Book Review: Illustration Unzipped
Illustration Unzipped features artworks from a collection of contemporary artists and illustrations. Most are personal works, and there's no particular theme so basically anything goes. The...
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Book Review: Spectrum 20: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Spectrum 20 is yet another wonderful collection of amazing artworks. One just have to open up the book to see the number of talented artists there are out there. You'll see familiar names, you'll also...
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Book Review: The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
The complete RubeThis large landscape book is an affectionate and wonderful celebration of Goldburg's art with several dozen examples of his cartoon inventions but there was much more to him than that....
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Book Review: The Art of Mr. Peabody and Sherman
This is a nice companion artbook to the movie Mr Peabody and Sherman. I like the cover which has the 1960s style cartoon characters walking through the door and turning into characters with more...
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Book Review: Photorealism in the Digital Age
The catalogs completeMore than once in this book Louis Meisel says it is his last title about Photorealism. Don't worry though, this fascinating art movement hasn't come to an end, just that Mr Meisel...
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Book Review: Now Where Was I? A Sketchbook Memoir by Steven Reddy
Now Where Was I? is an amazing sketchbook from artist, teacher, traveler and writer Steven Reddy. This book was made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign that ended in August 2013.Steven Reddy...
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Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony...
Here's a look at the work of fashion illustration Tony Viramontes from the 80s. It's a 192-page hardcover from publisher Laurence King Publishing.Visit Amazon to check out more reviews.If you buy from...
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Book Review: Star Wars Art: Concept
Updated to include info on the limited editionStar Wars Art: Concept continues the Star Wars series of large oversized hardcover artbooks from publisher Harry N. Abrams. The books before are Star Wars...
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