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Book Review: The Boy and the Beast Artbook
This is nice companion book fro 2015's animated film The Boy and the Beast.It's a large format paperback with 208 pages. The book uses two paper quality, the bright white paper for coloured art and the...
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Review: Sakura Koi Watercolor Field Sketch Set
The Sakura Koi Watercolor comes in tube and pans sets. They are among the more popular watercolour sets for beginners because they are rather affordable. For pan sets, they come in 12, 18 and 24...
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Book Review: Colored Pencil Cats & Dogs: Art & Instruction from 80 Colored...
This is a lovely book for artists into coloured pencils animal drawings, specifically cats and dogs.Collected within at artworks, tips and techniques from 80 coloured pencil artists. The paperback book...
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What's the best iPad Pro size for artists?
What's the best iPad Pro size for artists?It really depends on your personal preference.SizeThe 12.9-inch version is more enjoyable to draw on compared to the 9.7-inch because of the larger drawing...
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Play RedCarpetRampage as Leonardo DiCaprio to chase the Oscar
I can't believe people actually make a game out of Leonardo DiCaprio chasing an Oscar. Hilarious.Tags: video
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Art of Tom Bancroft, Vol. 1 on Kickstarter
The Art of Tom Bancroft, Vol. 1 is up on Kickstarter. Tom Bancroft is an artist who has worked on many Disney animated films, is a tutor and has also written several art books.It's great to see that...
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GRAPHITE magazine on Kickstarter
3D Total is back with another campaign on Kickstarter. This time, they want to produce a quarterly art magazine. You can already download some sample pages from their Kickstarter page. The campaign...
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Book Review: Record of Agarest War 2: Heroines Visual Book
This book is thinner than the first artbook. It's 128 pages vs 160 pages. Presentation is the same, just the content is scaled back. This book is still heavy on character designs. Those take up one...
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Best external microphone for bloggers and Youtube vloggers
This article looks at the external microphones and lavaliers I use with my camera (GH4) to record audio for my Youtube videos. Over the past six months, I've researched numerous microphones and finally...
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Book Review: 斗战神原画集 Asura Original Artworks
Update 27 Apr 2016: English edition is availableThis is the artbook for the Chinese MMORPG game called 斗战神 or Asura, that's if I get the name correct. The more literal translation would be Fighting...
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Book Review: Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie
Aya is written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clément Oubrerie and the book won the 2006 award for Best First Album at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.The graphic novel is...
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Book Review: Phenomena Art of Asura
Singapore publisher Basheer Graphics Book has finally gotten around to publishing and releasing the English edition of 斗战神原画集 Asura Original Artworks, the companion artbook for Asura Online, a MMORPG...
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Surface Pro 4 Alternatives for Artists: The List
This article looks at various Surface Pro 4 alternatives for artists who want a portable tablet to draw on. I've only included alternatives that run Windows OS and support a pressure sensitive...
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Moleskine creates Game of Thrones opening with paper
Moleskine used 750 photos and 7,600 pieces of paper to create the paper version of Game of Thrones opening. That's smart advertising.They have also included a making-of video.Tags: moleskinepaper art
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April 2016 Reviews Roundup
Book ReviewsOnly 13 books were featured in March and this month we have 25. I haven't been featuring Japanese artbooks for a while because I'm waiting for new books to be released before I make the...
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Book Review: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice: Tech Manual
I would consider this the real artbook compared to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: The Art of the Film which is more like a making-of book.Tech Manual is also sort of like a making-of book except...
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Book Review: DRAW Portraits in Colored Pencil: The Ultimate Step by Step Guide
This is an invaluable resource for portrait artists who use coloured pencils.Collected within are 11 full step-by-step demonstrations that show you how a portrait is drawn from start to the end. The...
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ArtOrder Invitational: The Journal art book (Kickstarter)
Jon Schindehette from ArtOrder has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an artbook that will feature the artworks of international artists. Check out the artists whose artworks are going to be included...
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Travelogue sketches of my third time in Bali (4-8 May 2016)
I'm back from another trip to Bali, my third time in three years. The first was in 2014 where I stayed 14 days and filled an A4 Moleskine sketchbook. Last year, I was traveled there with my girlfriend...
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Bali 2016 Packing List
I've been packing almost the same things for every trip with small differences. For this trip to Bali, I brought along three sets of watercolour so that I can review them properly. Sailor fountain pen...
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