Review: Mint Chocolate (Benu Fountain Pen)
Here's another fountain pen sent over by Benu Pen. Yes, I've more than a few in my collection now. Mint Chocolate is from the Essence collection. It seems like fountain pens from the different...
View ArticleBook Review: The Art of Prey
This is a splendid video game artbook for Prey, the sci-fi action game from Arkane Studios, creators of the Dishonored series.Collected with this 184-page hardcover are wonderful concept artworks for...
View ArticleBook Review: Plant: Exploring the Botanical World
Plant: Exploring the Botanical World collects more than 300 pieces of botanical art from artists around the world and from different periods in history.This hardcover 352-page book is thick and heavy....
View ArticleReview: Gaomon M106K Graphics Tablet
Another tablet review! This time it's the Gaomon M106K graphics tablet that was sent over by Gaomon (Facebook | Youtube | Twitter). Thanks!The Gaomon M106K joins the rank of other budget tablets that...
View ArticleCraftsy Review: Getting Started With Colored Pencil & Water-Color With Janie...
Getting Started With Colored Pencil & Water-Color is a craftsy tutorial course consisting of 6 lessons at intermediate level. In this course, you will learn basic water-color techniques and how to...
View ArticleBook Review: Fante Bukowski Two
The trials and tribulation of struggling writer, Fante Bukowski continues in Fante Bukowski TwoWhile Fante Bukowski One just focuses on the writer, this sequel juxtaposes his story with his...
View ArticleBook Review: This is Rembrandt
This book is part of the This Is artist series of books from Laurence King Publishers (LKP). So far I've enjoyed all the books from the series.For some reason, this particular book is not in English...
View ArticleReview: Adonit Dash 3 Stylus for Touchscreen Devices
Over the years, I've reviewed many styluses and that includes Adonit Dash (1st generation) and Adonit Dash 2.The most important thing to understand is the performance of such styluses depends on the...
View ArticleBook Review: The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art
This could be an interesting book for animal art lovers.The Paper Zoo is a 256-page hardcover that features animal art that goes back 500 years. Just like a zoo, the book attempts to show you as many...
View ArticleEtchr Art Satchel now on Kickstarter
The Etchr Art Satchel & Field Case are now up on Kickstarter. The campaign has already been fully funded. Wow!From the comments, I found out that there were people who waited for the exact time the...
View ArticleBook Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets The Art of the Film
For a film that relies so heavily on CGI, it's great to see an artbook that's packed with great art to go with it.This large 192-page hardcover collects the concept art for the film. There are designs...
View ArticleStream Craftsy Courses for Free on 4 Sep 2017
Mark your calendar.Craftsy will be streaming free art tutorials for 1 day, from Monday, September 4th at 12:01am to 11.59pm MST.My suggestion is to visit their website first to check out their catalog...
View ArticleNew Gamboge + Quinacridone Red + French Ultramarine (Limited Palette)
These are the scans of watercolour swatches and sketches that I've created in my Youtube video. You can get nice skin tones but the proportion can be difficult to get. You can't add French Ultramarine...
View ArticleBook Review: Terry Harrison's Complete Brush with Watercolour
This is an insightful book for those who want to learn more about different types watercolour brushes and the marks and textures they can make. This is a very hands-on book with exercises that you can...
View ArticleFriends & Places: The Art Of Rob Kaz
Check out Rob Kaz's artbook on Kickstarter. Campaign ends Wed, September 20 2017 8:58 AM AWST.http://kck.st/2x4intyTags:Â kickstarterself published art books
View ArticleBook Review: Not Waving But Drawing by John Cuneo (NSFW)
No waving but drawing is the second book by the award-winning illustrator, John Cuneo. While the first book is a small hardcover format, this second book is a much bigger and does more justice to his...
View ArticleAugust 2017 Roundup
I almost forgot to create this roundup post for last month. :-PThese are the books featured last month. BooksThe Art of Mafia IIIQuick Draw People: Step-by-Step MasterpiecesPierre The Maze Detective:...
View ArticleBook Review: Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World
As the title of the book suggest, this book features the background art of anime and manga works. I must say that I have not heard of any of those anime or manga before. And that's a good thing because...
View ArticleBook Review: Painting Watercolour Sea & Sky the Easy Way
If you're someone who learns best by painting along with tutorials, this book is for you.Terry Harrison is an experience painter who started painting in 1984 and has more than 3 decades of...
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