Wonderful animation by Ryosuke Oshiro of two kids playing at the playground.

Touching documentary about cartoonist Richard Thompson.

By the way, The book The Art of Richard Thompson has just been released this month.

Pierre & Bertrand dedicated their spare time over 4 years to create this epic 3D film. The film tells the story of a French soldier in World War I, who becomes paralyzed with fear while in the trenches. He escapes in his head to an imaginary world where toys fight wars instead of humans. It won many awards and was shown at Cannes film festival 2011.

This month's winner is slug who reviewed Diebuster Storyboard Book. slug is a three time winner now. Congrats!

Even past reviews are eligible to win into the future.

There's only one other review for artbook this month and it's from ceskar who reviewed this interesting book called Z.S. LIANG: Native Trails, Fresh Tracks which is an artbook about American Indian People. Check it out.

For all other books reviewed by readers, check out all the books reviewed by readers and past contests.

About this contest

The goal is to feature more art books with the help of readers. For each book you review on the forum, you stand to win a prize. To sign up as a forum member, let me know your desired user name using this contact form.

Check out details for the art book review contest.

To get some ideas on what you can review, you can check out these lists:

• Upcoming art books
• Upcoming Asia art books
• Requested art book reviews

Next Contest

Deadline for contest #57 is at the end of Dec 2014.

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Here's the video I made while sketching with friends from Urban Sketchers Singapore at Chinese Garden. This is a large park located in Jurong East, Singapore. The garden has several buildings that are modeled after Chinese architecture such as the pagoda. It's a calm and open space where you can see people exercising in the mornings and evenings. It's also quite a popular spot for wedding couples with their photo shoots.

Video was shot with Panasonic GH4 with 12-35mm lens at 4K 30FPS.

Heh heh. Watch a video of me inking a sketch that I drew on the train the other day.

Click here to view the sketches larger.