The 30-Day Sketchbook Project will forever transform the way you view your sketchbook. Through gorgeous yet simple step-by-step projects for each day of the month, illustrator Minnie Small will help you improve your skills, build your confidence and eradicate your fears of the blank page. Each day presents a new practice with three forms of inspiration: first, an overview of the topic with an approachable tutorial, followed by a prompt to help you make the lesson your own. Last, you'll get a glimpse into Minnie's process, as she shares some of her own sketchbook pages. Through this insight, you'll not only learn how to put the prompts into practice, but you'll also gain a greater appreciation of intuitive learning and the beauty of creative imperfection. Get started in the first days with exciting exercises like the Timed Challenge and Master Study before easing into more elaborate ones like Observational Drawing and Monochrome Paintings. Keep the rhythm going with Collage Paintings and Ink Illustration. Then, see how far you've come when you reach more advanced lessons like Plein Air, Realism and Alternative Self-Portrait. Whether your artwork lives only in the pages of your sketchbook or you use these exercises as a launching point for other work, it won't take long to see the positive impact of this daily practice in your art. Let your imagination run wild, your love of creativity renew and your faith in your skills flourish, one day at a time.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly significant role as a draftsman. This book is the first to focus on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work. Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. Citing recently discovered, unpublished documents that overturn the accepted image of the artist, The Unknown Monet reveals an extensive group of graphic works created over the course of the artist's career, many of which are unknown to the general public and to scholars: beautiful pastels, stunning black chalk drawings, and fascinating sketchbooks, which include pencil studies that relate to many of his paintings. The book also shows how Monet exploited the print media to promote his art. The most important publication on Monet to appear in a generation, this illuminating volume is essential to anyone interested in his work, Impressionism, and nineteenth-century French culture. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Exhibition Schedule: Royal Academy of Arts, London (March 17 - June 10, 2007) Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (June 24 - September 16, 2007)

Found in our archives, the Black's Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This title is a delightful look athe the Lake District as it was in 1922.

This book analyzes the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewelry. The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool materials and the relationship between the support and the stone are explained in depth along with ways to illuminate jewelry, treatment of light and chiaroscuro play to add depth. The book begins with simple geometric structures and moves on to explore more complex forms through a range of distortions and multiplications. The goal is not to show finished pieces of jewelry but to provide the tools that will enable readers to acquire a work method that allows them to represent their ideas effectively. From orthogonal and axonometric projections to techniques (watercolor, tempera, ink, mixed technique) and different possible supports, readers will find a source of inspiration for developing their own designs. Rings, tiaras, precious stones, bracelets and chains) are graphically represented in this book as if they were real, along with effects such as depth, gloss and transparency.

Learn How to Draw Portraits of People in Charcoal for the Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Materials Shaving the Charcoal Rendering Using Charcoal Lesson about Light Application Drawing an Outline Grid System Tracing Table or Light Table / Flexi-glass with Bendable Lamp Tips to Remember Exercises Portrait of the Little Girl How to render the Eyes How to render the Nose How to Render the Lips How to Render the Ear How to render the Face How to render the Hair How to render the Grown, Necklace and Earring How to render the Background Portrait of a Young Man Couples Portrait Couples Portrait 2 The Portrait of Grandfather Grant Author Bio Introduction First of all thank you for choosing this eBook, as your guide to the world of Charcoal Portraits, as we know is not a new thing, it was already been done by our ancestors long time ago inside their caves, and if we compare their drawings, it's a reflection of how they live during their time, same as modern day paintings. Nowadays artist still use charcoal because of simplicity, various texture and effects it can create, painting with charcoal can make different Gray values, by that you can use it to draw any portraits you wish to work at, you may ask "Why just use pencil?," well if you ask me Charcoal is more unique than pencil, it has darker tone even with different ranges compare to pencil and a finish work of charcoal is more life- like compared to pencil, so there is more dimension and depth to it. Another one that I consider why I like this medium is when I apply highlights to my drawing; it makes my drawing looks real as if my subject is in front of me. And if you're fun of watching old reruns- movies, TV shows and even cartoons. I'm sure you're going to love it too. What will you get from this book? Well After you read and do the exercises in this eBook you will be drawing any Portraits you want. Believe me; this eBook covers all about Charcoals and techniques that will make it for you to draw Portraits easily using this medium. Exercise A. will teach you, how to render parts in the Face, and the rest of the Exercises will teach you the right approach of how you will draw your portraits: close-up shot, medium shot, doing a double subject portraits and half body portrait- including texture and a full background. So give your time by doing the exercises and in no time you will be a Portrait artist. So your best and have fun with Charcoal.

Jean Otth (1940-2013) was a pioneer of video art in Switzerland. Even while studying art history and philosophy at the University of Lausanne and art at the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne in the early 1960s he began to experiment with the then very new medium, making full use of its visual potential. Right from the beginning, Otth's artistic trajectory, which still was influenced by the practice of painting, became closely tied to the emergence of new technologies. His works were soon exhibited in Switzerland as well as at major international shows, such as the 1973 Biennale Sao Paulo, the 1976 Venice Biennale, and the Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977. Throughout his career he mixed immaterial video projection with material reality, exploring their interaction. While constantly questioning the media he used, Otth produced borderline works that test the observer and provoke desire through covering-up, reframing, and shifting. This new monograph, the first book ever available in English on this remarkable artist, features photographic and filmed works as well as his drawings from all periods of his career. Text in English and French.

"The Technical Pen" features over 300 illustrations, including 34 full-color images in the hardcover edition (paperback edition is in gray scale).

Although originally designed for architects and engineers, a technical pen is an ideal tool for fine artists, illustrators, and graphic artists. Whether you want loose gestural sketching or tight, deliberate renderings, a technical pen moves smoothly and easily over the paper s surface. It offers a precise and predictable line quality that can t be matched by any other type of pen.

Gary Simmons, renowned teacher of pen-and-ink techniques, covers every aspect of working with the technical pen, beginning with a thorough explanation of its anatomy, operation, and care. He also includes troubleshooting tips as well as advice on choosing appropriate nib widths, inks, and drawing surfaces. Simmons demonstrates how to achieve the wide variety of strokes and stroke patterns that the technical pen makes possible including continuous parallel lines, crosshatching, stippling, and more and explores, through copious illustrations, the different effects various techniques have on their own and in combination with other approaches.

Simmons shows how to put the pen strokes to work through step-by-step demonstrations that illustrate the ins and outs of expert level image construction, from initial pencil sketch through final inking. He explains the fundamentals of form, tone, texture, and color in drawings, and how to make sure that the pen strokes do what you really want them to do. For instance, perhaps you ve added a layer of hatched lines over a bird s feathers to create a shadow effect, only to discover that you ve obscured their texture, or maybe one area of your drawing has become too dark. Gary Simmons addresses these and other common obstacles of mastering the medium and explains how you can avoid and solve them.

Gary Simmons has been working with pen and ink and the technical pen for over forty years. Simmons has conducted pen-and-ink drawing workshops nationally for Koh-I-Noor, and he teaches fine arts at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

First published in 1920, this is one of the first and best books on the art of animation. Edward Lutz's classic contains many shortcuts to the process of film animation. These shortscuts were a trademark of Lutz's teaching. This book offers tips on drawing anatomy and motion and gives detailed instructions on how animated pictures are made and work. Walt Disney used an original copy of this book, relying heavily on its advice and teaching. This is both a valuable guide to animation and an extremely collectible classic.

Learn How to Draw Landscapes in Pencil and Charcoal For The Absolute Beginner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Drawing Materials Rendering Sphere Cone Cube Cylinder Charcoal Application Drawing an Outline Grid System Drawing and Rendering Sahara Desert in Pencil The Chocolate Hills in Charcoal The Lone Tree in Pencil Mountain View in Charcoal Nature's Path in Pencil Desert Rock Formation in Charcoal The Bridge in Charcoal Tips to Remember Author Bio Introduction: Ever wonder how an artist draw a beautiful landscape, how with ease uses his chosen medium and finished his masterpiece. Well let me tell you, that can do it too, picking this book is the first step you showed your interest to draw Landscape. I promise you if you read and do the instructions step-by-step in this book in no time you will be drawing your Landscape masterpiece in no time. Imagine that you will not just amaze yourself but also your friends and others by your skill in drawing as well rendering it adding tones to make in realistic. Both in pencil and Charcoal, as what I always tell beginner artist, you must be dedicated, persevere and be patient, if your first drawing attempt is not the same as you seen in the examples, don't be discourage, try to relax or take a break and after that do it again with your calm mind. This book will be showing you how easy it is to draw landscape, so let's begin the journey and adventure of the world of Landscape with your pencil and charcoal, and remember have fun and free your creative mind.

If you are an artist in search of further knowledge about drawing to enhance your skills, then this is not the book for you. This book is for the individuals who wants to be an artist but know nothing about drawing. I know how it feels when you want to illustrate an idea but you just don't know how to start. And when you finally grabbed the confidence to mark that paper but then it turned out really terrible and you didn't want to show it to anyone. Table of contents INTRODUCTION GETTING STARTED How to grip a pencil properly Warming up SKETCHING Starting with sticks and shapes DETAILING Design Texture SHADING Casting shadows Hatching Cross-hatching Scumbling Stippling Smudging and layering Smudging Layering This instructional manual is for making the 'two circles' cat of yours into something more pleasing and distinguishable, for enhancing that sheep which looks like a cloud with a face, for turning your stick figures into cartoons, and more. Learn the very basics of drawing easily by following this step-by-step tutorial and realize that drawing is something that is fun to do, and not something that becomes a cause of frustration. To give you a hint of what this book is all about, look at this short list of tasks that you will learn to properly initiate after reading and following the tutorial. Tasks: -Start with a loose sketch. You need to define the first look of your drawing by sketching it first so it could serve as a pattern for your permanent outlines (defined outlines). If the lay-out of your primary sketch is too far-off from the final piece that you are after, the latter parts are going to be difficult. -Define permanent outlines. Trace your sketch to clearly define the contour shape (primary shape) of your drawing, and clean it up by erasing the sketch markings. -Show/illustrate some texture. Texture contour provides a better portrayal of the shape's dimension values. The details such as scales, fur or any print and texture should curve and flow with the contour shape of your subject and adjust with it accordingly. -Draw the necessary details. Use a variety of line thickness and line weight (given pressure on the pencil) to show the right balance to the whole drawing, use thick lines for the parts that should visually dominate the drawing, and less visible and thin lines for the secondary details and parts that merely describe the object/subject's form."

This book is designed for anyone and everyone who has ever thought that they could have been a cartoonist if only they knew how. Handwritten and hand drawn, it answers questions about cartooning in simple, visual terms. What materials do you use? What size do you draw? How do you caricature, or keep a likeness in a strip cartoon character? These are just a few of the technical problems facing the beginner which Peter Maddocks tackles, but he also considers the inspirational side of cartoons - what comes first, the idea or the artwork; once you've had a bright idea, how do you transfer it on to paper? And he supplies captions and examples of cartoons to help you draw that very first masterpiece. Peter Maddocks was a full time professional Cartoonist, both in National Newspapers, films and TV animation.

Emmy Award-winning PBS host Mark Kistler's new book takes the adult coloring book craze to the next level-now hobbyists can easily create their own drawings using Mark's groundbreaking and accessible new system. For every serious artist, there are five people who want to be able to create a complete drawing in one sitting. You Can Draw It in Just 30 Minutes offers easy-to-follow, clearly illustrated lessons to draw objects from everyday life. Perfect for both the aspiring artist and for anyone who just wants to take a quick creativity break, You Can Draw It in Just 30 Minutes is full of fresh, appealing instructional twists and fun "art hacks," including tips for customizing or expanding on each drawing. The result? Drawings you want to recreate again and again.

Includes fundamental information on drawing in pencil, from choosing materials to handling the tools

Many aspiring artists want to draw a portrait of their best friend-especially where their pal has four paws and fur! This newest addition to the "Drawing Made Easy" series pairs our best-selling medium with the wildly popular subject of dogs and puppies. Unlike similar titles on the market, this book doesn't simply provide a collection of dogs for artists to re-create exactly. Instead, the book focuses on techniques specific to drawing accurate depictions of dogs and puppies-from creating a variety of fur types and features to achieving accurate proportions-so that artists can use the knowledge to render their own canine portraits. The book also includes a series of easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects showcasing a range of dog breeds, poses and props. This allows artists to practice their developing skills, guiding them from simple sketches through the study of various techniques to polished renderings.