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Shaun Tan – Untold Tales exhibition at Beinart Gallery
Shaun Tan is an artist well known for his surreal, dream-like imagery. Reading his books is a wonderful experience on its own. There's this otherworldly feel that just seems to seep through his art....
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Book Review: Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Guy Delisle is a comic artist known for his travelogue graphic journals, such as Shenzhen (2000), Pyongyang (2003), Burma Chronicles (2007) and Jerusalem (2009).In 2009, he stayed a year in Beit...
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How to stop watercolour pans from falling out of the box
So you've just bought a new watercolour box set and found out that some of the pans are falling out of the slots. There's actually a few easy ways to secure those pans and stop them from falling out....
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Book Review: A Journey Through Art: A Global History
A Journey Through Art: A Global History is a beautiful book written by Dr Aaron Rosen and illustrated by Lucy Dalzell to get people interested in art history. The text is written in an engaging...
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Book Review: 100 Tuesday Tips by Griz and Norm
This book is written by Griselda Sastrawinata and Normand Lemay, a husband and wife team currently working as feature animation artists at Walt Disney Animation Studio.100 Tuesday Tips is a collection...
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Join our Feb 2019 Sketchwalk at Commonwealth Drive
START Date & time: 23 Feb 2019, Saturday, 9:30 am Location: Commonwealth Drive, opposite Block 117 near the sheltersEND Time: 12:15 pm Location: Same as Starting Location. Check out more details...
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Book Review: Vision Illustrated Volume 2
In 2016, the first volume of Vision Illustrated was made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign. Fast forward two years later, we have the second volume. I'm fortunate to have a review copy sent...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of Aquaman
This oversized 178-page hardcover is n enjoyable movie companion to Aquaman. There are two publishers for this title, namely Insight Editions and Titan Books. Depending on where you buy the book, and...
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Is Burnt Sienna PBr 7 or PR 101?
This post came from a question someone had asked me recently. The person wanted a recommendation for a colour that's similar to Winsor & Newton's Burnt Sienna (PR 101) but has to be from Daniel...
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Book Review: The New Creative Artist (25th Anniversary Edition)
This book by Nita Leland was originally released in 1990 under the name The Creative Artist. A revised and updated edition was later released in 2006. And now, we have the latest 25th anniversary...
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Bart Sears' Drawing Powerful Heroes: Brutes and Babes V2 (Kickstarter)
Bart Sears, comic artist with 30 years experience, is putting out a new book, a how-to book reprinting 10 Brutes&Babes columns from Wizard Magazine (from the 90s). The content has been revised,...
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Is Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil good for drawing?
I happen to discover the Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencils recently and was intrigued by its ability to turn the pencil lead within. The highlight of this mechanical pencil is as you are writing, it can...
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Artist Review: Microsoft Surface Studio 2
First of all, a big thanks to Microsoft Singapore for providing the review unit that made this review possible. This review will be from the perspective of a visual content creator, someone who does...
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Book Review: Beginner's Guide to Sketching: Robots, Vehicles & Sci-fi Concepts
In 2015, 3dtotal Publishing released Beginner's Guide to Sketching: Characters, Creatures and Concepts which was pretty well received, judging by the reviews on Amazon. Well, that was an useful book so...
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Once Upon A Singapore: Traders (book review)
Once Upon A Singapore - Traders is a comic book on the history of Singapore traders from the 1900s. The story follows a young boy Aloysius and his grandpa as they were transported back in time to see...
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Review: Fluid Watercolor Paper (coldpress 300gsm)
Big thanks to whoever sent me this a year ago. Yeah, I only go to using it now.Fluid watercolour paper is made by manufacturer Global Art Materials, the same company that makes many other art products....
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February 2019 Roundup
BooksBeginner's Guide to Sketching: Robots, Vehicles & Sci-fi ConceptsThe New Creative Artist (25th Anniversary Edition)The Art and Making of AquamanVision Illustrated Volume 2100 Tuesday Tips by...
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Quick Tonal Studies with Lexington Gray
There are many quick ways to do tonal studies. I used to use Derwent Graphitone and Copic markers. And recently I've been using the Noodler's Lexington Gray fountain pen ink that's filled in a Pentel...
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Book Review: The Eyes of Bayonetta 2
Kudos to publisher Udon Entertainment for translating yet another Japanese video game artbook to English. The original Japanese artbook ベヨネッタ2 公式設定資料集 was released in 2014, the same year as Bayonetta 2...
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