October 2016 Roundup

It looks like in October, I wasmore productive than September. I feel great whenever I see a long list for my monthly roundups.

Expect lots of artbooks for November as well.

Books

1. Slash: Paper Under the Knife
2. Hirameki: Cats & Dogs: Draw What You See
3. This is Frank Lloyd Wright
4. I Love Paper: Paper-Cutting Techniques and Templates for Amazing Toys, Sculptures, Props, and Costumes
5. The Art of Deus Ex Universe
6. Halo Mythos: A Guide to the Story of Halo
7. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
8. Beyond Art Fundamentals
9. The Art of Kubo and the Two Strings
10. Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters: Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections
11. Tahra Art 2: Kim Kyoung Hwan
12. Barcelona: Five Routes for Sketching Travelers
13. Art Before Breakfast: The Workbook
14. Panther by Brecht Evens
15. Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings
16. Journeys in Calligraphy: Inspiring Scripts from Around the World
17. GRAPHITE 1 Magazine by 3DTotal
18. Star Wars: Complete Locations
19. Star Wars Year by Year: A Visual History, 2016 Edition
20. The Art of ReCore
21. Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years
22. Just Paint It!: The World's Most Enjoyable Painting Course. Ever!
23. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry
24. Reminiscence: Kwang-Hyun Kim Freezing Illustrations
25. 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style
26. Ozmosis Chills IV by Jon Sommariva
27. Art of Kian

Last month, I talked about the Dell UP3017. The review unit that I received had some unwanted colour cast so I'm waiting for Dell to reply on what they are going to do, whether to send me a new monitor for review, or just let it be. The good thing is, I really enjoyed that monitor. It's wonderful. More so especially because my old monitor is giving me a lot of problems.

In one of my monitor reviews on Youtube, someone mentioned that Dell could have cherry-picked a good monitor for me to review. As you can probably tell, it's not the case. Anyway, every company has quality control issues -- I just sent my Mac Pro from the mighty Apple company back for servicing for the 4th or 5th time, and just asked Logitech for a replacement keyboard for one that failed after a few months.

There are lots of new digital art products announced or released this month and recently, namely the Wacom MobileStudio Pro, Microsoft Surface Studio, Surface Book i7, Adonit Dash 2, Adonit Snap, Bamboo Slate, Huion G10T and probably some others that I had forgotten.

I will try my best to get my hands on review units so that I can review them. If I cannot, I will hire other artists to review them as usual. And that's where you can help me out by supporting my Patreon page because I use the money there to pay other artists to write those reviews. Or I would use the money to buy secondhand units (cheaper) to review, such as the case where I did for Acer Alpha Switch 12 which I eventually have to sell off at a loss, but still better than buying firsthand and selling at a greater loss. While I want to review the Samsung TabPro S and Huawei Matebook, chances are not high on those companies getting back to me.

Next month, other than the Dell UP3017, I'm going to review the Artisul Pencil tablet. I've not planned what else I'm going to review yet.

Art products

1. Cretacolor Nero Oil Based Charcoal Pencils
2. How to Choose Affordable Watercolour Brushes
3. Daniel Smith Watercolor Sticks
4. The Fastest External Drive for Video Editing Is...
5. Stilo 6R Stylus
6. Decadent Pies Watercolour Set from Prima Marketing
7. Stilo 2A Stylus
8. Portable Painter Watercolor Box by Steve Padden (Crowdfunding)
9. Acer Switch Alpha 12 (2016)
10. Things to Know about Wacom's New MobileStudio Pro 13 & 16-inch
11. Wacom Bamboo Slate for Drawing or Note Taking
12. Classics Watercolor Set from Prima Marketing
13. Laptops with 100% Adobe RGB for Graphic Designers & Digital Artists
14. Artisul D10 Pen Display Digitizer
15. Derivan Liquid Pencil (Sepia, Rewettable)
16. My thoughts on the Microsoft Surface Studio annoucement

Youtube

1. Cityscape Loose Pen & Ink Sketch (Tutorial)
2. Review: Decadent Pies Watercolor Set (Prima Marketing)
3. How to Choose Affordable Watercolour Brushes
4. Review: Daniel Smith Watercolor Sticks
5. Artist Review: Stilo 6R Stylus
6. Watercolor Misfit (Youtube Channel Feature)
7. October 2016 Annoucement
8. Artist Review: Stilo 2A Stylus
9. Review: New Huion 1060PLUS Graphics Tablet (2016)
10. Artist Review: Acer Switch Alpha 12 (2016)
11. Artist Review: Wacom Bamboo Slate
12. Wacom MobileStudio Pro: Know These Before You Buy
13. Review: Classics Watercolor Set from Prima Marketing
14. Sugar Lips Cafe Sketching
15. Review: Artisul D10 Pen Display Digitizer
16. Review: Kuretake Black Ink 60 & Sumi Ink 60
17. Mixing Manga Black Ink Style with Watercolour (tutorial)
18. Book Review: Watercolor Artist's Guide to Exceptional Color
19. Review: Derivan Liquid Pencil (Sepia, Rewettable)
20. Review: Rotring Isograph Technical Pen
21. Haji Lane Sketch Timelapse 2016

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Video courses

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