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Book Review: Cambodia & Angkor: A Travel Sketchbook
Cambodia & Angkor: A Travel Sketchbook is a wonderful travelogue recording the few months Elsie Herberstein, Justin Creedy Smith and Damien Chavanat spent traveling in Cambodia in 2001. They were...
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Book Review: A Sketchbook by Wil Freeborn
My copy of Wil Freeborn's sketchbook is here. I bought it from his Etsy siteIt's a 44-page paperback A5-sized book. The book is quite thin and the watercolour sketches are very nice so it really makes...
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Book Review: Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes is a artbook by Michael Cho, an illustrator, cartoonist and occasional writer based in Toronto.The back alleys, streets and houses he drew in this book are near his...
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Book Review: Now Where Was I? A Sketchbook Memoir by Steven Reddy
Amazing sketchbookNow Where Was I? is an amazing sketchbook from artist, teacher, traveler and writer Steven Reddy. This book was made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign that ended in August...
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Book Review: PARADOX: A Painting Exhibition catalogue
PARADOX is the exhibition catalogue for artists Sudarman Angir and LK Bing from Indonesia. I got this book as a gift from Sudarman Angir when he visited Singapore a week ago. I really love the...
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Book Review: A Book of Drawings by Ian McQue
By the time Ian McQue (blog | Twitter | CGHUB) told me about his artbook A Book of Drawings by Ian McQue, the first edition had already sold out. Good news is, second printing is coming in and you can...
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Book Review: Tim Bradstreet: The Sketchbook Series Volume 1
This volume one of the sketchbook series from publisher IDW featuring comic artist Tim Bradstreet. It's a 48-page A4-sized paperback sketchbook. The retail price is pretty affordable.This volume...
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Book Review: Jim Thompson: The Thai Silk Sketchbook
Jim Thompson: The Thai Silk Sketchbook is one of the earlier watercoloursketchbooks by artist Graham Byfield. This one was published in 1997. I managed to find this gem in the library by chance.The...
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Book Review: Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs
Hello, New York is a charming and personal illustration book by illustrator, blogger and author Julia Rothman. I follow her work occasionally and also her book blog Book By Its Cover. This is a picture...
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We Love Katong sketchbook is out
This is more of an announcement than a review. We Love Katong is out featuring the art of Urban Sketchers Singapore. Distributed by APD Singapore and available at all major bookstores in Singapore and...
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Book Review: Citysketch New York: Nearly 100 Creative Prompts for Sketching...
Fun book for you to sketch and doodle inI actually bought this book thinking it was a sketchbook. Well, it's more of an activity book for you to doodle and sketch in, rather than a sketchbook that...
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Handwriting in sketchbooks
Everyone's handwriting has it's own personality, more so when accompanied by a sketch. Those who sketch may write to record a thought, or provide a description that can be referred to in the future, or...
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Looking at sketchbooks from 2013
Let's look at the sketchbooks that were published in 2013. I had wanted to publish this post in January but forgot all about it. The first sketchbook I bought in 2013 is An Illustrated Journey authored...
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Book Review: Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words
This is a light-hearted sketchbook from Wendy MacNaughton. She's an illustrator and a graphic journalist based in San Francisco.The book is about A5 in size, slightly smaller. There are 176 pages. See...
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Book Review: Urban Sketching The Freedom Trail: Walking and Sketching...
Here's another self-published sketchbook by Mike Daikubara. I had also reviewed his earlier book Hotel Sketch Mike Sketch back in 2013. This one's a paperback with only 74 pages. It's about A5 size...
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Book Review: Everywhere I Went, My Sketchbook Was Sure to Go
Here's the sketchbook of my friend Drewscape, a freelance illustrator in Singapore. You might have seen some of his reviews for drawing tools on this blog before.He has recently published a small...
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Book Review: Sketching - from Square One ... to Trafalgar Square
Sketching - from Square One ... to Trafalgar Square is an art instructional book on drawing written by Richard Scott, artist and architect. It's a book meant for beginners for it teaches the...
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レビュー: Meanwhile in San Francisco: The City in its Own Words
スナップ写真のようなスケッチで見るサンフランシスコこれはウェンディー・マックノートン（Wendy...
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Book Review: An Excuse to Draw: Tommy Kane Sketches the World
Inspiring sketchbookAs someone who likes to sketch, I always find it inspiring to look at other people's sketchbooks. That's because you understand how much work goes into making those sketches,...
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Book Review: Show Me Manila! in 101 Sketches
A small group of sketcher friends from Singapore has just published a sketchbook of their recent trip to Manila.They had invited me to go for the trip but for some silly reason, I didn't go. Anyway,...
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