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Book Review: 20 Ways to Draw a Strawberry and 44 Other Elegant Edibles
Here's another book from the 20 Ways to Draw series. The series is quite popular judging by the number of reviews there are on Amazon. If you don't already know, these are drawing books for kids. There...
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Singapore to host 6th Urban Sketching Symposium
Hey, hey, hey. Singapore will be hosting the 6th Urban Sketching Symposium in 2015. See you all here next year!!!
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Book Review: The Art of Miro Petrov
I wrote about this Miro Petrov's artbook back in April when he was crowd funding for its publication. The book is now out.The Art of Miro Petrov is handsome looking 176-page hardcover limited to only...
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Animalium by Katie Scott & Jenny Broom
Animalium is a children's picture book designed to minic the experience of visiting a museum. Text is by Jenny Broom and the beautiful illustrations by Katie Scott. Publisher Big Picture Pres released...
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Book Review: Transformers Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging
I love the Transformers cartoons when I was a kid. The only toy that I had was an Optimus Prime toy (shown in the book) which was a hand-me-down so I don't even know how the packaging art looks like....
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Review: Duke 209 Calligraphy Fountain Pen with Fude Nib
The Duke 209 is an extremely affordable fountain pen that comes with a fude nib. Most sellers on eBay (from China) are selling this pen around US $10 with shipping included. That is a very good deal....
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Book Review: 365 Hints & Tips for Drawing & Sketching
Here's a book I received from Page One Publishing. It was on my shopping list initially. There are actually two publishers for the book. Page One Publishing is distributing this book for Asia under the...
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Book Review: Sorayama: XL - Masterworks Edition
Warning: NSFW due to explicit images.This is quite an incredible book and collection of artworks from Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama. Publisher Edition Skylight had actually published the first...
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Review: Da Vinci Brush Soap
If you want to really take care of your painting brushes, it's recommended that you clean them after each use preferably with soap. There are several brands of brush soap around. Anyway, I chose to...
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Watercolours of Lok Kerk Hwang 1993-2014
Watercolour artist Lok Kerk Hwang from Malaysia has just released his new artbook with 130 pieces of artworks.Check out the preview pages at http://www.lokkerkhwang.com/home/publication-preview.php
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Book Review: Water Paper Paint: Exploring Creativity with Watercolor and...
Water Paper Paint is a fun book on watercolour and mixed exploration, targeted probably at beginners.There are three chapters in the book. The first covers the materials to use, second has 30 hands-on...
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Google Nexus 9 ships to Singapore from Amazon
Just like the Google Nexus 7, the Google Nexus 9 will also be shipping to Singapore from Amazon directly. I remembered when the Nexus 7 was launched, it took a long while for it to appear on Amazon....
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レビュー: The Legend of Korra: Book 2 – Spirits, The Art of the Animated Series
素晴らしいアートブックこの本を手に持っていると最初に『The Legend of Korra』を見た時の興奮を思い出す。なぜかは分からないが、他のアートブックからは同じ気持ちにならない。理由はアバターの世界のストーリーとアイデアが凄く好きだからだろう。これは大きな１８４ページのハードカバーアートブックで、前のアートブック『The Legend of Korra: Book 1 - Air, The...
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Book Review: The Art of Paperblue
The Art of Paperblue is the instructional artbook from Korean concept artist Jae-Cheol Park who goes by the nickname Paperblue. He has been creating concept art for more than 10 years already.This is a...
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Book Review: Sketch!: The Non-Artist's Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and...
I was quite excited when I knew that France Belleville-Van Stone was coming up with a book. I follow her blog where she posts her drawings from daily life, be it sketches from the living room, backs of...
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Book Review: Playing with Stencils: Exploring Repetition, Pattern, and...
This is the workbook for creating your own stencils. It's quite fun. The author Amy Rice is a stencil artist herself and has her artworks displayed in several countries. In this book, she showcases 20...
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Book Review: The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location
The Urban Sketcher is a helpful book for the outdoor sketcher authored by Marc Taro Holmes who's a concept artist, avid sketcher and blogger. I actually met him in Barcelona during the Urban Sketching...
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Book Review: How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity
Here's the sequel to Scott Robertson's earlier book How to Draw. How to Render builds on what was taught in the earlier book and now talks about lighting, shadows, reflections and materials. Again,...
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Mostly Montreal: Watercolour artbook by Shari Blaukopf
Watercolour artist Shari Blaukopf has a new artbook out called Mostly Montreal.Check out the preview pages at Blurb.Tags: shari blaukopfwatercolour
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Book Review: Brave Intuitive Painting-Let Go, Be Bold, Unfold!: Techniques...
Flora Bowley's Brave Intuitive Painting is not your usual instructional art book. It's a book that's focused more on the non technical aspect of creating art than techniques. Bowley's paintings are...
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