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Award-winning urban sketcher and best-selling author Stephanie
Bower presents a spectacular, all-new collection of sketchers and
their art from 39 countries in a city-to-city tour around the
world. The remarkable work of the vibrant, international urban
sketching community was first documented in The Art of Urban
Sketching by Gabriel Campanario. In the ten years since its
release, sketching on location has grown into nothing less than a
worldwide phenomenon. A visual feast of more than 700 images from
over 150 sketchers, The World of Urban Sketching unveils the latest
developments and innovations in the creative and rewarding pursuit
of on-location drawing and painting. New Artwork. Discover the
stunning and informative work of both established and emerging
urban sketchers, from Seattle to Santiago, from Singapore to
Sydney. New Techniques. Consider new styles and approaches in color
and linework, including digital, through artists' tips and
step-by-step demonstrations. New Stories. Learn what inspires
sketchers, even during a pandemic, and get invaluable insights into
creating artwork on location through artists' observations and
advice. Whether you draw during your travels or in your own
backyard, the beautiful work in The World of Urban Sketching will
expand your skills and inspire you to pick up a pencil and sketch
your world!
Delve into the popular and competitive world of heroine design as
50 of the world's finest character artists from the fields of
animation, illustration, comics, and games share a
behind-the-scenes look at their stunning sketchbook pages,
showcasing over 2,500 drawings! A range of styles and genres are
explored, including classic comic book superheroines and magical
princesses, plus historical, fantasy, and sci-fi heroines from
across time and space. From concept sketches and initial
thumbnails, to emotions and expressions, outfit variations, and an
engaging chosen design, artists share their previously unseen
explorations alongside expert advice for crafting compelling
heroine designs. Further pages explore action and pose - a library
of dynamic sketches with invaluable basic-shape overlays, offering
a revealing collection of each artist's ideas and experiments.
"3dtotal Publishing launched a brand-new design series, with the
recent release of Character Design Collection: Heroines. This
series aims to present inspirational sketches and pose explorations
by some of the best character artists out there. This first edition
is simply incredible, and perfect for ushering in what I'm sure
will be continued greatness ahead with future volumes... This book
will surely serve as a fantastic reference for inspiration and a
great tool in learning character creation. Highly recommended!"
Nick Charles @ Renderosity Magazine
The ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling! A potent
combination of art, science, and boundless enthusiasm, this art
instruction book from John Muir Laws (author of The Laws Guide to
Drawing Birds) is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist and a
more attentive naturalist. In straightforward text complemented by
step-by-step illustrations, dozens of exercises lead the hand and
mind through creating accurate reproductions of plants and animals
as well as landscapes, skies, and more. Laws provides clear,
practical advice for every step of the process for artists at every
level, from the basics of choosing supplies to advanced techniques.
While the book's advice will improve the skills of already
accomplished artists, the emphasis on seeing, learning, and feeling
will make this book valuable-even revelatory-to anyone interested
in the natural world, no matter how rudimentary their artistic
abilities.
Take your manga drawings to the next level with amazing outfits and
creative costumes. It just takes two details-wrinkles and shadows.
In How to Draw Clothing for Manga, you'll discover how adding a
tuck here, a gather there, and hiding some areas in shadow will
take your drawings from flat sketches to fantastic illustrations.
What you'll find inside: Basic techniques for drawing a variety of
fabric details, including pulled wrinkles, gathered folds, tucked
shapes, and more! Plus, learn how to express the differences
between stiff, thick fabric and soft fabric with drape. 35+ outfits
shown side by side with modeled photos to easily break down exactly
what to draw for a realistic finished look. From slim-fit tees to
skirts that twirl, every style is covered across all genders.
Practice line art to get you started mastering wrinkles and shadows
before adding details to your own work. With hundreds of sample
illustrations and step-by-step guidance, this is your must-have
guide to drawing clothes and costumes for your manga characters.
What are you waiting for? Grab your supplies and get started
drawing with style!
This charmingly illustrated book is an ideal guide to the art of
botanical drawing and painting. You should never hesitate to pull a
flower apart to understand how it fits together, to turn the
subject round until you are satisfied with its position, or to do
pencil sketches of it in various positions. From sketching basic
shapes and making volumes to creating textures and visualising the
colour spectrum, this book is here to teach you how to look and
observe, since you can only properly transcribe what you
understand. Through step-by-step demonstrations and with colourful
illustrations, Agathe Ravet-Haevermans teaches you how to recognise
and draw a wide variety of flowers and leaves, and covers the
textures and structural elements of a range of different plants
including succulents, vegetables, trees and grasses. Practical as
well as beautiful, The Art of Botanical Drawing is a necessary
addition to the bookshelves of anyone interested in botanical art.
Take your plein air artwork to the next level through
easy-to-understand workshop-style lessons and skill-building
exercises. In Plein Air Techniques for Artists, award-winning
artist and respected workshop instructor Aimee Erickson demystifies
how to capture a variety of light effects and guides you in
strengthening your plein air skills through practice. This
accessible book covers: Materials and gear. Gain a basic knowledge
of the possibilities so you can keep your options open and your
plein air process fresh. Composition and value. Explore the impact
of proportion, color, value, line, edges, shape, and texture.
Color. Consider how knowledge and intention, your color palette,
and what you see-your perspective-take turns being in charge of the
color game, inventing rules and finding solutions. Light effects.
Learn how conditions of the day-how much light there is, and
whether it's soft, diffuse, golden, harsh, pale, or dusky-affect
everything we see and how we paint. Design and the visual idea.
Discover strategies for developing a visual idea, from creating
serial studies to working with a camera to improvisation. Featuring
exceptional still lifes, figures, and landscapes by other noted
artists working in a range of mediums, Plein Air Techniques for
Artists gives artists at all levels of experience the guidance they
need to grow as a plein air artist. The For Artists series expertly
guides and instructs artists at all skill levels who want to
develop their classical drawing and painting skills and create
realistic and representational art.
The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using
wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local
landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique
properties, and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal
starting point for anyone - from novices, improvers and experts to
educators and students - who wants to forge a closer bond between
their art and their surroundings. Testing and trial and error are
key to finding a material's best use, so the authors' tips, drawn
from long experience in the US and Japan (but which can be applied
to clays anywhere) provide an enviable head-start on this rewarding
journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies,
throwing clay bodies, handbuilding and slab bodies, or simply be
applied as a glaze or slip. The specific properties of found
materials can create a diverse range of effects and surfaces, or,
even when not fired, can be adapted for use as colorful pastels or
pigments. Beautiful illustrations and helpful technical
descriptions explain the formation of various clays; how to locate,
collect and assess them; how to test their properties of shrinkage,
water absorption, texture and plasticity; the best ways to
test-fire them; and how to adapt a clay's characteristics by
blending appropriate materials. From prospecting in the field to
holding your finished product, there is helpful advice through
every stage, and a gallery of work by international potters who
have embraced the clays found around them.
Capture the wonders of nature in watercolour with this quick guide
to wildlife painting, packed with techniques and inspiration.
Bestselling author Hazel Soan demonstrates how to paint a variety
of wildlife, from garden favourites to exotic wild beasts. With
easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step exercises, it has
never been easier to capture the likeness of an animal, in your
chosen medium, in a few quick strokes. The book covers all the key
skills you need, including techniques for speed, capturing pose and
proportion, advice on painting fur, feathers, hair, hides and
markings, working with colour and light, and adding background and
setting, as well as further work that can be completed in the
studio. From cats, big and small, birds and foxes to magnificent
elephants, lions and zebras, Hazel's simple tips, practical
demonstrations and beautiful paintings can be applied to any moving
subject and will help you master the art of capturing animals - in
watercolour, oils, pencils or pastels - in no time at all.
Learning How to Draw Has Never Been Easier! Lee Hammond's All New
Big Book of Drawing is the culmination of nearly forty years of
teaching. No matter what your experience level YOU CAN DRAW by
following along these easy step-by-step demonstrations. Whether you
want to create drawings of flowers, learn how to draw animals or
how to draw a person, these drawing techniques, all-new projects,
and expert tips will show you how to get great results with both
regular pencils and colored pencils. Two books in one. The first
half is a comprehensive course on using pencils to capture shape,
form and likeness. The second half explores adding color using
colored pencils 88 step-by-step projects. You will learn to draw
everything with this book! Starting with a simple sphere and
working up to sea shells, sunsets, flowers, birds, horses,
clothing, people--and so much more! A lifetime of know-how! Lee
covers it all--from big picture concepts (selecting tools, shading
techniques, making sense of perspective) down to techniques for
creating the look of feathers, capturing skin tones, and making
surfaces look shiny or transparent. Using her straightforward,
three-stage approach to lifelike drawings, Lee makes any subject
approachable, from still life and landscapes to animals and even
people. This project-driven tome will help you create realistic,
frame-worthy artwork. Project by project and subject by subject,
you will gain confidence and cultivate great joy in drawing.
Learn dynamic sketching and watercolor techniques for creating
cityscapes, landscapes, figures and faces, still lifes, and more,
enhancing the story you want to tell with form, line, and color.
Discover incredible methods and tips for creating dramatic street
scenes and vivid landscapes, and capturing dynamic figures and
graphic architectural details. Artist Alex Hillkurtz-a top
Hollywood storyboard artist, international workshop instructor, and
Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society-presents
fundamental concepts of sketching with pencil and pen for a number
of popular genres. Discover simple ways to jot down spontaneous
ideas in pencil, capture rough details in ink, and add watercolor
for extra depth and interest. Make sketching more enjoyable by
adopting innovative techniques that will make a difference in your
practice, and your artwork. No matter your experience or skill
level, you'll benefit from learning: Compositions that draw the eye
How to avoid common sketching mistakes Ways to create light and
shadow to define shapes and add interest Successful ways to use
negative space The importance of perspective in creating depth Easy
color washes that create drama Get started today, and fill your
sketchbooks with unique drawings and paintings you will be proud
of. The For Artists series expertly guides and instructs artists at
all skill levels who want to develop their classical drawing and
painting skills and create realistic and representational art.
In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and
journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture
of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic
and controversial artist of modern times. For someone who shuns the
limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his
face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably
famous. This fully updated and illustrated story of Banksy's life
and career builds an intriguing picture of his world and unpicks
its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or
sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and
the question 'Who is Banksy?' is as much about his career as it is
'the man behind the wall'. From his beginnings as a Bristol
graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for
seven-figure sums and hangs on celebrities' walls. The appearance
of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the
Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his
latest exhibition. Now moreNational Treasure than edgy outsider,
who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today? This book
charts Banksy's journey from the graffiti-scrawled streets of
Barton Hill, the working class neighbourhood of Bristol where he
and others covered the walls with vibrant pieces while trying to
avoid the police, through to some of the most prestigious galleries
of the world, where his daring acts of guerilla art have forced us
to reconsider how we define as art. From the artist's own words to
recollections of friends and colleagues, this book also examines
the contradictions of Banksy's life: charting how a privately
educated boy from a middle class area of Bristol reinvented himself
as a rogue and an outlaw who would take the art world by storm.
With beautiful reproductions of some of his most controversial and
recognisable works, this detailed study is a truly indispensible
guide to understanding the ultimate art rebel whose work is no less
relevant today than it was when he first started out some thirty
years ago.
Discover the creative processes and intriguing inspirations behind
the work of leading fantasy artist John Howe - conceptual designer
on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy - in this comprehensive
practical art book. Brings together Fantasy Art Workshop and
Fantasy Drawing Workshop into a combined volume, fully updated and
with new art. Examines in fascinating detail over 150 of the
artist's outstanding sketches, drawings and paintings, plus the
techniques and stories behind each. Leads you step-by-step through
a range of specially commissioned drawing and painting
demonstrations that reveal John's renowned artistic approach in
action. Discusses the rewarding journey into fantasy art, from the
first steps of building a compelling portfolio to book
illustration, graphic novels and the big screen. This book will
appeal to artists and fans of John Howe's work by leading you
step-by-step through a range of specially commissioned
demonstrations, sketches and finished paintings, some designed
specifically for this book, that reveal John's renowned artistic
approach in action, plus the techniques and stories behind each. It
covers a wide range of subjects, beginning with the creative
process, exploring where inspiration comes from, looking at
narratives and themes, gathering reference materials, organizing
your working environment, and protecting and storing artwork. Howe
covers drawing materials and explores drawing and painting fantasy
beings from initial inspiration and approaches to characters,
symbolism and accoutrements. He begins by showing how to create
different types of male and female archetypes, humans in action,
armour and weapons, faces, expressions and hands, hair and
costumes, and goes on to explain how to create different types of
fantasy beasts: talons, wings, fangs and fire, and noble animals,
interspersed throughout with exciting case studies. The book also
explores fantasy landscapes and architecture and balancing light
and dark atmospheres. The final section of the book provides
further inspiration and guidance on presenting work in various
forms, including film work, book covers and advertising, all areas
John Howe has vast experience in. The foreword is written by
groundbreaking film director Terry Gilliam, with an afterword by
Alan Lee, John's partner on the conceptual design for The Lord of
the Rings movie trilogy and Oscar-winning illustrator.
An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving
a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches
you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on
colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare
earth oxides. Find out about the types of base glazes and the
fluxes used to make them in relation to colour response as well as
using colouring oxides to achieve depth and variety of colour,
rather than resorting to commercial ceramic stains. Discover the
practical aspects of mixing, applying, testing and adjusting
glazes, and explore a large section of test tiles and glaze recipes
for use on white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain fired in
electric, gas and salt kilns. This new edition, fully updated and
revised, contains advances in technology and new discoveries in the
Periodic Table. It is an infallible handbook to achieving the
colour you want, and to help you broaden your palette.
In Cute Chibi Animals, popular Instagram artist Phoebe Im
(@bobblejot) teaches you the art of chibi, step by adorable step.
Learn how to master this popular anime and manga drawing style with
this book that focuses on drawing 75 animals, including an
anteater, chinchilla, manatee, dolphin, sloth, axolotl, pangolin,
owl, narwhal, and much more. Chibi is Japanese slang for "short,"
and the characters in Cute Chibi Animals live up to this
description with their cute roly-poly bodies that make them
extremely lovable and huggable. Learn how to draw adorable: Mammals
Birds Fish Reptiles Amphibians Along with the step-by-step
tutorials, Phoebe shares her tips and tricks for drawing the
animals with either pen and pencil or digitally; coloring, shading,
and highlighting your characters; and giving them accessories for
added cuteness. There are also coloring pages in the back of the
book for some extra fun. So, get out your drawing supplies and
start creating your animal kingdom!
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