I shall keep this year's shorter and hopefully more achievable.

1. Review more Japanese art books

I hope to do that without breaking the bank, which is going to be very difficult. If you know of any good or upcoming Japanese art books, I'm always interested to know.

2. Learn Japanese

This will be incredibly helpful when I'm reading Japanese books. Now I'm more like looking. It will help with my Japanese animes as well.

3. Draw more

Same as last year.

Looking back at my New Year resolutions from 2009, I'm amazed that I fulfilled 4 out of 5 of them. It helps that they aren't that difficult to start with.

Let me reflect on them one by one.

Do more art book reviews

I'm very pleased to be able to get my hands on so many books to review. Most of the books are bought and borrowed, with a small handful sponsored. I also met a new friend who collects art books. Borrowed lots of books from him and saved lots of money.

Here are this month's interesting art blogs featured on the blog and on my Twitter page.

• Naimoko (community)
• Hi-Fructose Magazine (community)
• Travisty's Beard (community)
• The Amazing Colossal Movie Art Blog (movies)
• tekkoman (sketches)
• Escape Hatch (sketches)
• Alex Puviland (comics)
• David Palumbo (paintings)
• 老街 xiangyuan jie (vis dev)
• The Art of James White (graphic design, community)
• Gorilla Artfare (community)
• My Mini Tree House by Charles Santoso (character design)
• Chris Hack Artblog (pencil, sketches)
• Chris White (portraits, caricatures)
• Daniel Robbins (sketches, paintings)
• Aurel's BLOG by Aurélien François (cars)
• School of Ill (illustration, community)
• The artblog of Brett Bean (sketches, comics)
• Sketchwich (community)
• Valeriy Zrazhevskiy (illustration)
• Studio Rayyan (illustration)
• Story Boredom (cartoons, storyboards)
• Yet Another Art Blog by Gino Whitehall (vis dev)
• Illustration Art (illustration)
• Shane Prigmore (character design, animation)
• Gas Water Nothing (watercolour)
• Toon Baboon: The Art of Adrian Ropp (cartoons, animation)
• elephant art by Andrew Shek (animals)
• Scribiling by Campion & Forichon (illustration)
• Sketch-O-Rama (sketches)
• French Bird (game art, sketches)

There are more art blogs from other months if you have time to kill.

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Here's the chance to catch up on all the books reviewed, and previewed, in December, especially so if you've missed any, new and old.

My three favourite art books this month are 小畑健画集「blanc et noir」(Art of Takeshi Obata), The Art of Planet 51 and The Art of Oban Star-Racers. What are yours?

Most of my reviews are on Amazon, if you find them helpful, throw me a vote there. Greatly appreciated.

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Update: Review for this book is now available