Just came back from Basheer bookstore and these are some of the books I saw. Contact them via facebook if you have any questions or want to order or pre-order books. They have stores in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. They also ship globally.
I just reviewed Genga a few days ago. Stocks are limited.
By the way, both Kim Jung-Gi 2007 & 2011 Sketch Collection are sold out because they were too popular.
On the right is the Fantasy Art Genius Guide Vol 1. It's a magazine packed with tutorials on fantasy art. it's a bit like ImagineFX magazines.
It covers...
Portrait & character
- Paint perfect fantasy portraits and design manga and steampunk characters.
Concept
- Let your imagination run wild and design stunning sci-fi scenes.
Landscapes
- Create sprawling cityscapes and futuristic vistas.
Creatures
- Construct mythical and magical beasts.
Also inside...
- The rules of fantasy art
Portraits
- Add 3D elements to paintings
- Classic portrait lighting techniques
- Creative photomanipulation
- Use filters creatively
- Add neon colours to portraits
- Fantasy lighting
- Paint perfect skin in Painter & Photoshop
- Complete guide to underpainting
Character
- Mythological character art
- Create classic anime characters
- How to paint a steampunk fantasy
- Paint manga
- Metallic paint in ArtRage
- Fantasy character
Concept
- Secrets of good concept art
- Design decorative backgrounds
- Fantasy art on the iPad
- Antique effects
- Pro matte painting
- Draw a fantasy fairy-tale character
- Use PaintTool SAI
- The golden rules of comic art
- Design a movie poster
- Manga illustration on the iPad
Landscapes
- Paint captivating backgrounds
- Construct a cityscape
- Paint with sponge brushes
- Combine fantasy and realism
- Lighting with layer masks
- Compose a spacescape
- Manga street scene
- Create fantasy worlds
- Paint sci-fi settings
- Paint moonlight into scenes
- Design destructive cityscapes
- Paint fantasy scenes
Creatures
- Figurative fractals & Photoshop
- Creating a hybrid portrait
- Illustrate in monochrome
- Scale in sci-fi art
- Master Photoshop brushes
- Paint fur effects
- Magical night painting
Free with this issue...
- Disc packed with tutorial files and resources.

The various volumes of Digital Art Masters from 3Dtotal Publishing.

Digital Painting Techniques Vol 4 is out.

The last copy of Framed Ink that I saw. Also check out Marcos Mateu Mestre's new book Trail of Steel: 1441 A.D.

Junography is limited in stocks also.

ABAKAN 2288: Kallamity's World of Mecha Design Part One, Dark Knight Manual and The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy.
It's interesting that Dark Knight Manual is published by Insight Editions and The Making-of by Abrams.
Dark Knight Manual is a scrapbook style book with detachable goodies like cards and booklets.
White Cloud Worlds is a fantasy art book from New Zealand featuring 27 established and upcoming artists.
It will blow your brains.

Highly recommended to all Harry Potter fans, Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey
If you have any book queries, send them to http://www.facebook.com/BasheerGraphic



















2 Comments
I heard Genga Hard Cover
Submitted by en_b on
I heard Genga Hard Cover comes out in Feb 2013, just incase you prefer a hard cover. I know many don't like HC's as much as I do.
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wish I could afford the Genga
Submitted by f_a on
wish I could afford the Genga book :(
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