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Refresh your creativity and boost your motivation to draw with the
expert help of The Drawing Ideas Book. If you're stuck in a rut -
or simply just stuck - this book is filled with ideas for what to
draw, how to draw and even where and when to draw. Packed with
arresting examples of creatives' drawings and sketchbooks from all
over the world, it's sure to fire up your creativity. Imagine it,
doodle it, sketch it, ink it and more. Discover the infinite
possibilities of this essential art form, from its key mediums to
unusual processes, across subjects from figure drawing and
landscape sketching to abstract compositions.
Learn to draw manga and anime characters with 50+ easy
step-by-steps in three styles: manga-style humans, chibi-style
humans, and creatures. Each lesson features eight steps in total
and breaks down the character with a simple process: identify the
basic lines and forms of the body; add volume and details; and ink
and color. Introductory pages include facial expressions,
hairstyles, age groups, friends and foes.
The world is becoming a busy noisy place and it is good to find a
pastime that creates a different space, another dimension. Our
paintings mean a lot to us because they remind us of lovely places
we have visited and enable us to remember them in detail. It takes
time to study the colours and contours of a scene. It may be that
the drawing is an inadequate representation of the three
dimensional scene spread out before us, how can it be anything
else, but the process of trying to represent it on the two
dimensions of the blank page is intellectually rewarding. The
emerging picture is not just about the scene before you but also
about your response to it at the time.
The German-Swedish artist Ann Wolff is a pioneer of the studio
glass movement in Europe. Born in Lubeck in 1937, she has achieved
international fame for her sculptures which mainly use the material
glass, but she has always drawn as well.This volume now presents a
collection based on a selection of sixty hitherto unpublished
drawings from the 1980s. The works, executed in pencil on paper,
focus on a female figure seen in reflections and duplications,
sometimes surreal and whimsical in connection with animals and
intermediate beings, and sometimes with a man or a child: dream
worlds, pictures of the subconscious, often inspired by fairy
tales. The pictures unfold their narrative potential as
investigations of the female self in the social milieu of an age
characterised by feminist movements and discussions regarding the
relationship between the sexes.
Few figures tower over twentieth-century art like Salvador Dali and
Andy Warhol. Their works were ground-breaking and incalculably
influential, yet at the same time both artists were wildly popular
in their lifetime and have only become more so in the decades since
their deaths. Despite the striking differences in their art and
personalities, the two men nonetheless had a lot in common the most
obvious being a strong sense of the power of publicity and an
affinity for eccentricity and extravagance. They also shared a love
of New York, which both men made the heart of their social lives;
it was there, in the 1960s, that they met for the first time. This
book offers the first-ever direct juxtaposition of Dali and Warhol
as personalities and artists. Torsten Otte builds his account
through perceptive analyses of similarities in their lives and
work, and reconstructs their many encounters based on first-hand
accounts by some 120 people who knew and worked with the men.
Around sixty images, many of them published here for the first
time, by eminent photographers such as Richard Avedon, David
Bailey, Philippe Halsman, Christopher Makos, Man Ray, or Robert
Whitaker, round out the book.
Former Disney animator offers expert advice-with over 700 illustrations-on drawing animals both realistically and as caricatures. Use of line, brush technique, establishing mood, conveying action, much more. Construction drawings reveal development process in creating animal figures. Many chapters on drawing individual animal forms-dogs, cats, horses, deer, cows, foxes, kangaroos, etc. 53 halftones. 706 line illustrations.
Illustration is applied imagination. But this book is not only
about illustration, though it does contain illustrations-lots of
them. But there's more. This book examines the profession of
illustrator, from the vexing subject of money to the question of
the right workplace. How do you get commissions? How do you
negotiate successfully? What's a fair price? How do you handle the
everyday routines involved in illustration work? And, of course, it
presents a wide variety of illustra- tion techniques. In short, it
makes an effort to enlighten, be useful and answer as many
questions as possible. Its author does so, on the one hand, by
offering more than twenty really useful tips for budding
illustrators-for example, how to stop the fear that a blank page
often inspires-and, on the other, by presenting the twenty-five
most important illustration techniques in a practical way that
awakens the reader's desire to learn more. As a parallel narrative
accompanying the humorous texts, there are images by very different
illustrators who work with a wide variety of techniques and styles.
These pictures are diverse yet easy to compare, because they all
show the same thing: a bird.
Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) occupies a key position in the broader
history of the Austrian avant-garde while also deepening our
understanding of modernism. Her work covers an impressive range of
media and genres in the visual and applied arts. Influenced by her
studies at Vienna's Kunstgewerbeschule (which later became the
University of Applied Arts Vienna), the Itten Private School, and
the Bauhaus in Weimar, she worked as a painter, stage designer,
architect, designer in Vienna and Berlin, in exile, and as a
deportee. This book explores the heterogeneity of Dicker's work,
reconstructs her artistic strategies and references to aesthetic
and political discourses from the 1920s to the 1940s, and documents
for the first time her works in the collection of the University of
Applied Arts Vienna. Portrait of her work and collection catalog,
dedicated to the artist, designer, and architect Friedl
Dicker-Brandeis Essays by Julie M. Johnson, Robin Rehm, Daniela
Stoeppel, and others To accompany an exhibition in Vienna and
Zurich
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