Happy new year everyone! I hope you have had a fantastic January. :-)

Books

These are the books featured this month. There will be more coming in February because I've a mountain of books waiting to be featured.

1. The Art of the Iron Giant
2. Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
3. AmazingSingapore by Olga Terekhova
4. Things from the Flood by Simon Stålenhag
5. The Art of Noah by Kuang Hong
6. Drawing in Black & White: Creative Exercises, Art Techniques, and Explorations in Positive and Negative Design
7. Artistry: Pen & Ink: A creative exploration of a time-treatured drawing technique
8. Nepal The Art Book by Bernat Moreno
9. Creative Revolution: Personal Transformation through Brave Intuitive Painting
10. Creative Strength Training: Prompts, Exercises and Personal Stories for Encouraging Artistic Genius
11. The Line Art Challenge: 100 sketches for 100 days
12. Sketchy Stories: The Sketchbook Art of Kerby Rosanes
13. How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal by Nathan Fowkes

Product reviews

The most interesting product I reviewed in January is probably the Lenovo Yoga Book.

There aren't many portable computers out there that can capture and reproduce strokes as accurately as the Yoga Book, perhaps except the new and expensive Wacom MobileStudio Pro. Many tablets suffer from the slow-diagonal-line-jitter problem but not the Yoga Book. However, it's not really a powerful computer so there's lag when running Windows, and Windows, as compared to Android, is where you have access to more drawing apps.

Meanwhile, I'm still holding on to my review for the Artisul Pencil tablet. I'm going to force myself to review it in February.

1. Ugee HK1560 Pen Digitizer Display
2. Roundup of Pen Display Monitors for Graphic Artists & Designers
3. Huion H610 Pro vs New 1060 PLUS
4. Lenovo Yoga Book
5. Lenovo Miix 510
6. Samsung TabPro S

Youtube

1. Drawing with a Folded Pen
2. Hill St Sketchwalk (31 Dec 2016) 4K
3. Sketching Digitally vs Traditionally
4. Sketchbooks from 2016 and Making Time to Draw
5. My Sketchbooks for 2017
6. Review: Huion Inspiroy G10T Wireless Graphics Tablet
7. How I choose which colours to use
8. Chinatown 2017 Pen & Ink Sketching (timelapse)
9. Chinatown 2017 Sketch with Watercolor (timelapse)
10. Review: Faber Castell Clic & Go Water Cup
11. How to Refill the Pilot Hi-Tecpoint, VPen (Precise or Varsity)
12. Book Review: Local Color: Seeing Place Through Watercolor
13. Book Review: A Sky Longing for Memories: The Art of Makoto Shinkai (English edition)
14. Review: Piston Calligraphy Waterbrush with Weasel and Wool Hair
15. Huion H610 Pro vs New 1060 PLUS tablet
16. Artist Review: Lenovo Yoga Book for Drawing Purposes (from 9:03)
17. Lenovo Yoga Book Handwriting & Note Taking Demo
18. I've Just Released a Watercolor Mixing Course on Gumroad
19. Daniel Smith Essentials Watercolor Set
20. Review: Faber Castell Basic Fountain Pen (Leather body)
21. Chinatown Food Street Sketch Timelapse (Jan 2017)
22. Armenian Street Sketchwalk (11 Aug 2012) Re-upload
23. Chinatown Food Street Watercolour Timelapse (Jan 2017)

Gumroad

I've just added a new course to my Gumroad page and it's about mixing watercolours. It's a course for beginners. You can check it out at https://gumroad.com/parkablogs

If you happen to be a Patreon supporter at the $5 tier, you already have access to the course! Patreon supporters have access to the lessons as and when I finish filming them.