ReviewBooks
The Art Of Alfredo Alcala by Heidi MacDonald and Phillip Dana Yeh (book review).
Often with the artbooks from Dover Press, I like the art and recognise the techniques shown they use even if I don’t know…
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December 2022
November 2022
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Rayguns & Rocketships by Rian Hughes (book review).
If you do the page flick test with ‘Rayguns & Rocketships’, you could be mistaken to think its all about paperback covers. However,…
ReviewBooks
Illustrators Special: The Modesty Blaise Artists (book review).
In many respects, this ‘Illustrators Special: The Modesty Blaise Artists’ is a long time coming, more so considering how The Big Palace has…
August 2022
ReviewBooks
Vision Illustrated Volume 2 edited by Hugo Bravo (book review).
It looks like Vision Illustrated Volume 2 is the last to come out of these publications. Like Volume 1, it’s a 2-page sampler…
July 2022
ReviewBooks
Drawing From Photos by Patrick J. Jones (book review)
Patrick Jones in his introduction to this book, ‘Drawing From Photos’, acknowledges that doing live model posing has become problematic since the covid…
ReviewBooks
Drawing Masterclass: Clothed Figures by Lucy Swinburne (book review)
Looking at the indicia for this book, ‘Drawing Masterclass: Clothed Figures’, its author Lucy Swinburne not only draws professionally but also teaches the…
ReviewBooks
The Artist’s Complete Guide To Drawing The Head by William L. Maughan (book review).
I’ve been keeping ‘The Artist’s Complete Guide To Drawing The Head’ by William L. Maughan in my shopping list for some time but…
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The Art Of Humorous Illustration by Nick Meglin (book review).
I thought it was time for a bit of a laugh to cheer everyone up and this 1981 book, ‘The Art Of Humorous…
June 2022
ReviewBooks
The Figurative Artist’s Handbook by Robert Zeller (book review).
Considering the widespread taste of SFCrowsnest readers, not to mention likely talents, I do like to add in the odd artbook, as in…
ReviewBooks
The Art Of DC Comics Bombshells (book review).
I picked up ‘The Art Of DC Comics Bombshells’ on a whim really, mostly because of the sampled artwork on-line. ‘Bombshell’ art is…
May 2022
ReviewBooks
Mark Harrison’s Dreamlands written by Lisa Tuttle (artbook review).
OK, let’s play a geek game. Choose a defunct publisher. In this case Paper Tiger and google it and see which books you…
ReviewBooks
The Savage Art Of Bob Larkin: Volume 1 (art-book review).
A lot of S.Q. Productions catalogue is what is generally considered ‘good girl’ art softcovers. A few aren’t and this includes ‘The Savage…