A personal gallery of drawings and short observational writing by Logan Donald, with log entries about everyday scenes and finished sketches from places like Patagonia National Park in Chile. Readers get a mix of visual art and brief personal vignettes.
Website: https://www.nascentdraftsman.com/
Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
An artist-author shares behind-the-scenes accounts of how his paintings, especially the Dinotopia series, were made. Readers get practical detail on preparatory studies, model posing, maquettes and sources of inspiration.
Deeply researched profiles and histories of animators and films from around the world, with a focus on Japanese animation and independent artists. Each issue also includes animation news bits and a closing note.
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