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Budding artists can master the art of figure drawing with this practical guide to drawing people, written by expert anatomical drawing educator Jennifer Crouch. Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 illustrations, Life Drawing is a comprehensive guide to creating beautiful figurative art.
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• Shape and form
• Tone and texture
• Pose, posture and expression
• The structure of hands, lower limbs, feet and the head
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Structured like a traditional drawing class, Drawing School: Fundamentals for the Beginner covers the concepts all serious beginning artists need in order to master basic drawing skills, including form, space, depth, proportion, composition, perspective, and more. To start the exploration, California State University art professor Jim Dowdalls demonstrates how to use the different types of drawing tools, including how to hold a pencil, how to use...
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Bem-vindo ao universo do retrato, onde nosso abrangente eBook irá acompanhá-lo na jornada do desenho realista. Seja você um artista iniciante ou alguém que busca aperfeiçoar suas habilidades, este livro estabelece as bases, começando pelos fundamentos do retrato. Você construirá uma base sólida, aprendendo a observar e reproduzir os traços delicados que tornam cada rosto único. Nossos 11 tutoriais detalhados foram criados para orientá-lo...
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If you have ever wanted to learn to draw but lacked the confidence to start, then this is the book for you.
An accomplished artist with many years of experience in teaching, author Carole Massey will have even the most hesitant of beginners picking up the skills and techniques needed to start drawing. The book is a complete drawing course, designed to help you progress from simple techniques such as lines, circles, squares, and ellipses, through...
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An accessible guidebook designed to teach and inspire, Art Starts with a Line offers everything you need to master the art of line drawing, whether the goal is to draw for fun or to illustrate an original masterpiece!
Line drawing involves using a combination of fine lines and bold strokes to create artwork of any kind-from basic folk art to more sophisticated illustrations. This form of art requires minimal tools, making it both affordable and portable....
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Bienvenidos al mundo del retrato, donde nuestro completo libro electrónico te guiará en cada aspecto del dibujo realista. Ya seas un artista principiante o desees perfeccionar tus habilidades, este libro establece los cimientos comenzando con los fundamentos del retrato. Construirás una base sólida, aprendiendo a observar y reproducir los delicados rasgos que hacen que cada rostro sea único. Nuestros 11 tutoriales detallados están diseñados...
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If you are like us and simply can't get enough of the wild creatures that inhabit this unique biome, then you're in luck! Whether you are a seasoned artist or have never picked up a coloring pen outside of school, this book will cover how to draw different savanna animals realistically. This book includes 14 detailed step-by-step drawing tutorials for a range of animals from the savanna, suitable for both beginners and advanced artists. Along with...
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Découvrez la magie de la composition et de la perspective avec Shirish. Apprenez à dessiner des esquisses étonnamment amusantes en utilisant des techniques faciles à utiliser, mais puissantes, pour des compositions solides et une perspective précise. Apprenez les bases de la perspective comme l'horizon, le point de fuite et le plan de l'image. Apprenez à dessiner en utilisant la perspective à un, deux, trois et même cinq points de fuite! Apprenez...
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A step-by-step guide to all the tricks-both freehand and digital-to creating the best manga characters, Shonen Manga is a fun, easy to read manga manual for artists of all ages and languages.
Focusing on Shonen-style manga and anime (a genre targeting young boys-"Shonen" means young boy, referring to elementary through grade school age groups), Shonen Manga is a practical, hands-on guide to learning the skills of action-packed drawing. It includes...
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Learn to create an animated flip book from start to finish! “Flipping Out: The Art of Flip Book Animation” guides readers through the entire flip book animation process, from brainstorming and storyboarding, to drawing, adding color, and more.
Aspiring animators will learn all of the skills to create flip books of their own, including keyframes, in-betweens, animating characters, and binding their animations into a book. Using the enclosed drawing...
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Zentangle(R) is fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon, attracting individuals from all walks of life. The Beauty of Zentangle celebrates this simple but elegant new craft with hundreds of sensational one-of-a-kind designs from around the world. This invitation-only collection of the very best Zentangle-inspired art includes stunning masterpieces from breakthrough artists and CZTs like Suzanne McNeill, Cindy Shepard, Marie Browning, Sandy Steen Bartholomew,...
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Olvidarse del paisaje del artista visual Guillermo Mena cautiva con su modo de trabajar con el residuo de los bosques, su recoger ramas caídas, hacer la quema y obtener material para el dibujo. Atrae esa metamorfosis de la materia y su escritura metapoética, experiencial, que muestra al artista en la relación que establece entre la palabra y el devenir de su pensamiento. Lectores/espectadores tendrán la posibilidad de acercarse a ese carácter...
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-Repleta de consejos útiles y detalladas lecciones, esta guía es el recurso perfecto para aquellos artistas que busquen pulir el estilo y la técnica.
-Un exhaustivo manual con el que podrá dibujar una amplia gama de temas, entre ellos personas, animales, flores y paisajes. Este útil recurso comienza con una amplia presentación de los utensilios y los materiales que necesita todo dibujante para ponerse a trabajar, tales como los distintos tipos...
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One of the world's finest fantasy artists, Ed Org, takes you on an awe-inspiring journey into the realm of faerie. This book presents practical step-by-step instructions on pencil and colour techniques to help you to create beautiful faerie characters in striking surroundings. It includes an indispensable photo reference of models and props, including costumes, masks and weapons, which you can use to get the most out of your faerie art. It concludes...
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Readers will learn how to draw and paint truly fabulous fantasy females with this practical and inspirational guide for improver artists. Fleming demonstrates the basics of female anatomical structure, how to use both drawing and painting media effectively, and how to design and build fantasy female characters. Key to this subject matter is capturing female allure, and there are specific sections that tackle female pose, expression, clothing, hair...
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From soft pencils to graphite powder, ballpoint to fibre-tip pens, conté sticks to watercolour pencils, this unique guide covers everything you need to know to begin mastering and combining different media in your drawing. Use it as a reference for using a particular tool, or as a catalogue of inspiration when seeking new ideas to try.
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The velvety strokes of pastel have enchanted fine artists for more than a century. From airy strokes to bold marks and soft hues to vibrant shades, the versatility of pastel makes it suitable for a wide range of subjects and moods. Now anyone can experience this multi-dimensional medium with “The Art of Pastel”. Inside this comprehensive guide, five artists provide instruction for using soft, hard, and oil pastel-each sharing his or her unique...
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Discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating the undead in How to Draw Zombies. From the pages of great literature to Hollywood movies, zombies are appearing everywhere. Now aspiring artists can bring them to life, so to speak, by learning to render them with pencil, paint, and digital image-editing software. How to Draw Zombies gets into all the gory details, such as creating bloodshot eyes, forming robust brows, and imitating the...
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Get a feel for your art-literally! “101 Textures in Colored Pencil” teaches you every technique you'll need to give your colored-pencil drawings realistic, palpable texture.
There has never been a better opportunity to master textures. Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the most challenging aspects of creating art in colored pencil, even for experienced artists. 101 Textures in Colored Pencil provides artists with...
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With step-by-step projects that are designed to help sharpen artists' skills and heighten their confidence, this book demonstrates simple techniques for rendering the textures of everyday objects, such as metal, wood, plastic, hair, fur, feathers, and more. This 64-page book simplifies the process with easy-to-understand instructions and comprehensive illustrations.
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