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A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration
for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.
The wonderful thing about drawing buildings is that, wherever you
travel around the globe, you will never be short of subjects to
inspire you. From the most elaborate of Renaissance cathedrals,
through to the humble garden shed, you will always be able to
practise your skills and learn a few techniques in the process.
This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the
exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a
variety of media and a wide range of techniques, including pencil,
pen, graphite powder, watercolour, water-soluble pencils and Indian
ink. As you work through this book, you will look at materials and
their qualities then move on to explore how to put these materials
to best use when drawing specific types of building. You will be
led gently through levels of learning, with easy and more
challenging exercises progressing your knowledge and developing
your skills. As the book is divided into discrete sections, you can
dip in to a particular type of building that you wish to draw, and
use the information and illustration provided, while extended
teaching exercises take you through the way the author approaches
composing and completing a drawing. Fully annotated paintings,
working drawings and extended projects reveal how each effect was
achieved. Detailed artworks in a range of styles and media are
thoroughly annotated to demonstrate key techniques and important
details and there are invaluable exercises for understanding
perspective, negative and positive space, tone, choosing details
and constructing large-scale images. The book includes thorough
studies of a wide range of different architectural styles, from
town houses to rural cottages and barns, from churches and
classical architecture to continental cafes and street scenes.
Taylor's exquisite drawings and paintings demonstrate the quality
of the results that can be achieved by following his helpful
guidance and advice.
Mitchell Smith's classic 1941 work presents a series of lessons
covering all aspects of the art of caricaturing. [Facsimile
reprint]
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!
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.
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