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Art Book: The Wonderful World of Fifi Lapin

Have you met the world’s most stylish bunny? If not then meet Fifi Lapin! This book describes the fashionista’s everyday fashion adventure. She’ll give you tips on what to wear on a glamor friday, lazy tuesday or even the best healthy tips with her carrots! The Wonderful World of Fifi Lapin art book translates the world of high fashion into thin lines of cute bunny illustration! So I highly recommend this! because if you don’t know what to wear tom, just ask from the style expert and she’ll even give you a bunny hug!

The New Age of Feminine Drawing NO. 2 Art Book Review

Here’s another art book review before I leave for the holidays! The New Age of Feminine Drawing NO. 2 (by Allrightsreserved) is a book series showcasing illustrations that empower the idea of “Feminine.” From fashion illustrations, product designs, mixed media commercials, lifestyle pages, posters and more, this book will help you visualize how strong illustrations seduce their target audience in an artsy-farsty manner. (No joke tee-hee)

Favorite artists of mine like Fifi Lapin, James Jean, Raphael Vicenzi, Annika Wester, etc. are all included in the 2nd edition (that’s why I bought it actually hehe). But what I seriously love about this art book are the “Behind the scenes” with the artists’ work.

In the Behind the Scenes (BTS) part like this one above, the artist shares her experiences with how she starts an illustration and discusses her “movement” style with her work. So pretty much, the BTS pages shows a step by step process by the illustrators and as a self taught artist this is just so awesome!

Since I started drawing, I’ve been using a trial and error method (I never went to art school, so don’t ask me anything about plates tee-hee) so these articles will simply expose me on how to start a good illustration/sketch…the right way. Plus it’s a good learning to see different views.

I bought my art book @ Page One in HongKong Harbour City but you can always order from Fullybooked.

Asian Graphics Now!

As promised! I would like to blog more about my art books to celebrate my 7 years of collecting (WOW do I actually need to celebrate it? haha). Anyways I’ll start off with my favorite graphic arts book, Asian Graphics Now! I bought this last year in Fullybooked Fort Bonifacio branch (my fave hang out place) because of Computer Arts magazine’s recommendation. The book showcases different asian talents in graphic design, packaging, branding and the world of advertising. Too bad we weren’t in it but hopefully! someday! hehe.

Favorite artists of mine like Phunk Studio (Singapore) and Momorobo (China) were also featured inside. However the main reason I bought this 1999 PHP book, (goodness me, it was expensive but worth it! (-_-;)) was for the extensive ideas for branding. They had designs for bottles, posters, business cards and even their outdoor advertising executions. The whole book was a total package and since I’m very interested with Asian culture, I really had to get this! ♥ Here’s what you can see inside!