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A light-hearted interactive guide to comics and cartoon-making that
uses an activity book format and creatively stimulating prompts to
teach the fundamentals of cartooning in a fun and easy-to-follow
fashion. From a working cartoonist and comic book making
instructor, this all-ages activity book uses humorous and
informative one-page comics and exercise prompts to guide young
readers (and readers who are young at heart) through easy-to-master
lessons on the skills needed to make comics. The activities cover a
range of essential comics-making tasks from creating expressions
for characters to filling in blank panels to creating original
characters and placing them in adventures of their own. Each
exercise can stand on its own or work together with others in the
book to stimulate creativity via the comics medium. In the end,
readers who complete the activities inside the book itself will
have created several comics of their own, and will have generated
many ideas for more sequential art creations. Praise for Let's Make
Comics! "At once playful and complex, this book is a perfect
introduction to cartooning, as well as a lovely (and lovingly
crafted) tribute to the comics form and a timely reminder that
artmaking can be fun."-Roman Muradov, creator of Vanishing Act and
On Doing Nothing "Let's Make Comics is a book I wish I had when I
was 9, but 29 works too! It's so fun and brilliant and packed with
oodles of awesome activities. Great book for learning to make
comics or for a seasoned cartoonist to find some new
inspiration."-Ben Clanton, creator of the Narwhal and Jelly books
"It's fantastic! This book will make you a better writer and a
better artist and show you how to think like a comic star."-Charise
Harper, creator of the Fashion Kitty and Crafty Cat books "Warning!
This book will make you make comics, and it will be fun!"-Greg
Pizzoli, creator of The Watermelon Seed, Number One Sam, and The
Book Hog "If only we'd had this book! Our comics would be much
better."-Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, creators of War and Peas
Dealing with forces is part of the basic inventory of artistic
processes. In giving shape and movement to material, such forces
are manifested in a specific form; as push and pull, for example,
as heaviness and lightness, but also as attachment and dissolution.
The articles in the book examine notions of formative and motive
forces using examples from art, music, dance, theater, photography
and literature. The questions posed not only cover how historical
notions of force (such as energeia and vis from ancient rhetoric)
are adopted, taken further, and correlated with mechanically,
metaphysically and organologically based concepts of force, but
also how, in the examination of form and movement, the inherent
concepts of force are manifested or presented in a new light.
Presents new ways in which art therapy is being used. Describes a
wealth of cases where art therapy has been used with bereaved
children, refugees, psychotics, psychosomatic patients, and many
others. Discusses a variety of methods employed by art therapists,
including the creative use of photography, video, computers, and
psychodrama. Describes ways of introducing art therapy to children,
and a new method of working with depressed patients. Also covers
training issues, such as countertransference through art-making,
using art in supervision, and training in termination.
Capturing the landscape on paper requires the artist to look - to
look deep into the distance and deep into the soul. This practical
book celebrates the genre of landscape painting - the wonder of
discovering the extraordinary in the everyday scene. Philip Tyler
looks in detail at the materials, techniques and approaches needed
to paint the landscape, and offers advice on how to portray space,
light, atmosphere and different weather conditions. Supported by
the words and images of other notable artists, he explains how to
transfer one's emotional response to the landscape onto paper or
canvas. There are exercises to support the 50 lessons in the book
and over 300 colour images illustrate the text.
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