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Sketches and drawings are the foundations of great art, where
thoughts and concepts first come to life as an image. In Sketching
from the Imagination: Characters, fifty talented artists share
their sketches, inspirations, and approaches to creating
characters. This book is a visually stunning collection packed with
useful tips and creative insights--an invaluable resource that will
inspire artists of all abilities.
The unique, dynamic learning system that has helped thousands of
artists enhance their figure drawing abilities Dozens of updated
illustrations and all-new content, exclusive to the 3rd edition
Select pages can be scanned by your smartphone or other device to
pull up bonus video content, enhancing the learning process
Create authentic-looking maps of fantasy cities, hamlets,
fortifications and more in a popular tabletop, RPG style. 30+
step-by-step demonstrations show you how to create your own unique
RPG maps Learn how to draw fantasy cities, medieval settlements and
more from a professional gaming illustrator Tips and techniques for
drawing fences, stone walls, forests, fields, bridges, footpaths,
mountains, harbors, shields, coats of arms and other cartography
elements Put your design and drawing skills on the map!
Bill Woodrow (b.1948) and Richard Deacon (b.1949) have been making
sculpture together since 1990. This new book is the first to
showcase the work made over this thirty-year period. They have
created over sixty works altogether which they call 'shared
sculptures', highlighting the important equality of authorship and
responsibility at stake for both these artists. Their shared
sculptures exist as five main bodies of work, which have been
variously shown in exhibitions in Britain and abroad: 'Only the
Lonely' (1993), 'monuments' (1999), 'Lead Astray' (2004), 'On the
Rocks' (2008) and 'Don't Start' (2016). Their recent body of work,
'We Thought About It A Lot' (2021), has seen them working on paper
to explore their ideas together. This new book provides a rich
visual account of these works, showing new and original photographs
of them individually and in their exhibition contexts. It also
includes studio photographs, images of the preview cards that they
have designed for exhibitions over the years and reproduces one of
their earlier fax exchanges. The publication features an
introductory essay by the art historian and curator Jon Wood and is
released to coincide with the artists' latest two-person
exhibition, 'We Thought About It A Lot, and other shared drawings'
at Ikon, Birmingham, in autumn 2021. Bill Woodrow (b.1948) has
exhibited internationally, representing Britain at biennales in
Sydney (1982), Paris (1982, 1985) and Sao Paulo (1983). He was
shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1986 and participated in
Documenta 8 in 1987. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2002 and
had a major retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.
Richard Deacon (b.1949) has exhibited internationally throughout
his career. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, elected to the
Royal Academy in 1998 and to the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin in
2010. A large exhibition of his work was shown at Tate Britain in
2014, the same year as a selected edition of his writings was
published. Dr Jon Wood (b.1970) is a writer and curator,
specialising in modern and contemporary sculpture. Recent
publications and exhibitions include: 'Sean Scully' (2020),
'Contemporary Sculpture: Artists' Writings and Interviews' (2020),
'Tony Cragg at the Boboli Gardens' (2019) and 'Sculpture and Film'
(2018). He is a trustee of the Gabo Trust.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of radical young artists
who banded together in London in 1848. This book explores the vital
role played by drawing and design in the work of the Brotherhood
and their associates and followers. Alongside nudes and figure
studies are the group s portraits, self-portraits, and caricatures
that were often exchanged as gifts between friends; delicate
studies of nature by John Ruskin and John Brett; scenes derived
from religious, literary, and medieval sources; captivating studies
of the iconic Pre-Raphaelite models Lizzie Siddal and Jane Morris;
and original designs for stained glass, textiles, and ceramics. The
book explores the full variety of Pre-Raphaelite drawing and
demonstrates the impact that it had on turn-of-the-century British
art movements such as Aestheticism, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau.
Illustrated with the most important Pre-Raphaelite drawings from
public and private collections in Britain including striking works
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Edward Burne-
Jones that have never before been exhibited or reproduced it offers
an intimate look into the enchanting world of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Learn the skills to set any scene or capture any mood. With this
book, your manga drawings will spring to life and leap off the
page! Drawing Action Scenes and Characters is most suited to
digital artists, but the tips and techniques in this book are
applicable to illustrators of all schools and persuasions. No
matter where you're at in your development as a manga master, this
companion volume helps bring your skills to the next level. Follow
along through the forty mini-lessons, created and guided by experts
tapping into years of experience in the Japanese animation and
entertainment industries. Open new pathways to your visual
storytelling possibilities as your characters find themselves in
increasingly complex and compellingly rendered scenarios. Tuttle's
How to Create Manga series guides users through the process of
reaching a professional-looking final drawing through actual sketch
progressions, practical tips and caution on common missteps to
avoid. Other books in the series include How to Create Manga:
Drawing the Human Body, How to Create Manga: Drawing Facial
Expressions and How to Create Manga: Drawing Clothing and
Accessories.
The best way to learn to draw is to DRAW! And this exciting little
sketchbook is going to help you do just that. From cover to cover,
this book is filled with 900 inspiring, modern drawings of little
black dresses, summery hats, stylish shoes, faux fur coats and
much, much more-plus plenty of room for sketching your own versions
of all these delightful fashions. 20 Ways to Draw is an exciting
new illustration series from Quarry Books, designed to offer
artists, designers, and doodlers fun and sophisticated exercise
books that help foster a creative spirit and provide learning tools
and inspiration. This latest addition to the series focuses
specifically on drawing and sketching fashion. Each spread features
20 inspiring illustrations of a single fashion item, for example:
dresses, shoes, hats, bikinis, scarves-with blank space for you to
draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Dress. The stylized items are
simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements,
showing how simple abstract shapes and forms meld to create the
building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of the 20
interpretations gives you a different interesting approach to
drawing a single item. Get out your favorite drawing tool, and
remember, there are not just 20 Ways to Draw a Dress!
In 365 Days of Art in Nature, Lorna Scobie, invites the reader to take a closer look at the natural world - whether that's outside on location, or inside their own home - reminding us all that regardless of whether we live in the city or the countryside, wildlife is just on our doorstep.
Observe the slow, constant pace of the nature that surrounds you every day, and use it to inspire you in your art and creativity. Activities may include visiting a particular tree, four times in the year and drawing it. How has it changed? Study the colours you find in autumn leaves. Explore drawing them in different materials.
Featuring nature-inspired quotes, breakaway activities to get you outdoors and plenty of supportive prompts and tips, this book will spark your imagination and help you to open your eyes and appreciate the natural beauty in our world.
The best of Klimt's drawings and watercolors, beautifully
reproduced in full color.
There is no doubt about Gustav Klimt's greatness as a draftsman.
Remarkable above all is the intensely sensual mood that he
establishes in his limpid, fluid drawings and watercolors: the
pencil or crayon line with which his subjects are described
explores and caresses as though the act of drawing was itself a
seduction. Klimt's drawings are often highly erotic and explicit,
many to such an extent that they have rarely been reproduced. This
has made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a
draftsman, and a comprehensive survey of his graphic output is long
overdue.
Rainer Metzger, a noted art historian, has brought together
hundreds of Klimt's drawings and watercolors in a way that enriches
our knowledge of the artist and enhances the visual impact of his
oeuvre. Klimt's drawings and studies, and his elegantly direct and
dangerously intoxicating preparatory sketches, reveal the
underlying impetus for and structure of his elaborate canvases. 307
color illustrations.
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Joy Division
(Hardcover)
Glenn Brown; Text written by Michael Bracewell, Lavinia Greenlaw
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Inkworks is a delightful collection of mech sketches from key video
game designer Darren Quach. Created to resemble an artist
sketchbook, flipping through the pages will elicit the feeling of
looking at private, treasured drawings. A visual journal of mech
development, this book will provide insight into the techniques of
a talented video game concept designer.
This book presents a unique and intriguing collection of drawings
of courtroom scenes. Entering the courtroom wearing his robe, Judge
Pierre Cavellat literally had a secret up his sleeve. Hidden in it
were pens and pencils, which he used to sketch the scenes he
observed from his bench. Throughout a 40-year judicial career in
one of France's more important regional appellate courts, Cavellat
produced hundreds of illuminating drawings and paintings depicting
the court proceedings but also the main actors: the prosecutors,
defence counsel, his fellow judges, the defendants, witnesses,
policemen, the general public, as well as the courtroom itself and
its architecture. The resulting vivid and uncensored impressions
give an unprecedented insight into how a judge perceives his
profession and the institution of justice as a whole. Given the
scarcity of written autobiographies by judges, and their reluctance
to lay bare their inner feelings and thinking, the images reveal,
in a candid and immediate fashion, the deeply hidden emotions,
ambiguities and fantasies of a judge going about his work. The
author, a judge herself, interprets the images through the lens of
her own judicial experience, exploring how judges think and act and
how their thinking is constructed through their education,
professional training, gender and class. In doing so she exposes
how personal background, history and experience play an additional,
sometimes conflicting, role in 'judgecraft'. While relevant to both
practitioners and students of law this book should also appeal to
the wider public.
Focusing on the glamorous, over-the-top female characters of the
bishouko genre, Bishoujo Beauties teaches readers how to draw the
alluring eyes, flowing hair and stylish outfits that define
'bishie' characters. After an introduction to the basics, readers
will have a chance to follow along Hart's in-depth step by steps
and will even be invited to draw on their own, right in the book's
pages.
Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh")
Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden
age of illustration. Known for his soft yet ornate pastels and a
splendid use of various design elements, the Danish-American artist
became famous for his memorable illustrations of stories by the
Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the Nordic
fables recounted in "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon" and the
tales collected in "In Powder and Crinoline."
This enchanting compilation of 59 full-color illustrations draws
upon Nielsen's images from scores of beloved tales, from the nasty
characters in "Rumpelstiltskin" to the mysterious and magical
figures in "The Blue Belt," "The Hardy Tin Soldier," "The
Nightingale," "The Real Princess," "Hansel and Gretel," "Snowdrop,"
and many more.
Certain to delight fans of fairy tales, this dazzling collection
will also thrill lovers of fine art, as well as Nielsen admirers.
When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among
several architects and artists who brought about this change during
the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini's ideas on drawing
recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte
militare (1475-1490) are significant. Francesco suggests that
drawing is linked to the architect's imagination and central in
conveying images and ideas to others. Starting with the broader
edges of Francesco's written work and steadily penetrating into the
fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular
formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the
context of the Renaissance. The book concludes with speculations on
how Francesco's work is relevant to us at the onset of another
major shift in architecture caused by the proliferation of digital
media.
Artists interested in graphic novels, comic book illustration,
or computer game graphics will find a veritable course load of
instruction in this mega-fantasy art manual. Combining the best of
three of Barron's top fantasy art titles, "The Compendium of
Fantasy Art Techniques" presents easy-to follow instructions and
step-by-step illustrations that will teach readers the essential
techniques for creating the fantasy world of their dreams. Included
is content from:
- Drawing & Painting Fantasy Landscapes and
Cityscapes--Award-winning science fiction and fantasy artist Rob
Alexander instructs readers on creating landscapes that evoke myths
and legends, lost empires, futuristic planets, dramatic
dreamscapes, underwater worlds, and subterranean cities.
- Drawing & Painting Fantasy Beasts--Kevin Walker covers
basic anatomical forms of animals in nature, then teaches the
reader how to distort these shapes to create fantastic beasts from
literature and legend, double-headed sea monsters and serpents,
satyrs, centaurs, dragons, and demons.
- Drawing & Painting Fantasy Figures--Noted fantasy artist
Finlay Cowen coaches students in the creation of heroes and
heroines, villains and wizards, dragons, and manlike beasts with
techniques for drawing characters with special attention to their
faces, bodies, action, and costume styles.
Along with a review of essential tools and techniques, tips for
developing ideas, and gallery after gallery of more than 650
stunning images, this comprehensive book is an incredible value for
fantasy artists of all levels.
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Sketchbook
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Daniel Arsham; Edited by Larry Warsh
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Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary
artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working
process of an extraordinary creative mind Sketchbook reproduces
original working drawings and sketches by the contemporary American
artist and designer Daniel Arsham, whose work freely crosses the
boundaries of art, architecture, film, and design, and also speaks
to fans of pop culture, including sneakerheads, car enthusiasts,
and anime devotees. Spanning a decade and featuring previously
unpublished drawings by this highly skilled draftsman, this
beautifully produced facsimile edition provides an unprecedented,
intimate look at Arsham's working process, revealing a new side of
an extraordinary creative mind. Published in association with No
More Rulers
This beautiful publication presents for the first time the
Eveillard Gift of drawings to The Frick Collection, the most
important gift of drawings and pastels in its history. It
accompanies an exhibition at the Frick and includes a catalogue of
the works and commentaries by noted scholars. Twenty-six works of
art promised to The Frick Collection by Elizabeth and Jean-Marie
Eveillard dramatically advance the museum's commitment to the
research and display of European drawings. Included in this
transformative gift from two longtime supporters of the Frick are
exquisite drawings, pastels, prints, and one oil sketch by Francois
Boucher, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Eugene Delacroix,
Jean-Honore Fragonard, Thomas Lawrence, Francisco de Goya y
Lucientes, John Singer Sargent, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, and
Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others. The works include figurative
sketches, independent studies, portraits, and landscape scenes,
each either deepening the museum's celebrated holdings or bringing
the work of an artist who is not face=Calibri>- but should be -
represented in the collection. This lavishly illustrated
publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Frick, includes
a catalogue of the works, as well as comprehensive commentaries on
each of promised gifts written by noted scholars in their field.
This stunningly illustrated new book focuses on 76 intricate,
expressive and individual examples of calligraphy from the
unparalleled collection of the British Library. The author, a
renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine
calligrapher herself, writes - uniquely - from a practitioner's
point of view. Ranging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful
calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance
of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of
calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward
Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy
through the history of European manuscripts. Large-scale
full-colour reproductions enable the reader to see the fine detail
of each manuscript, and to understand more clearly than ever before
the painstaking craft and great artistic skill that were necessary
to create these strikingly beautiful pieces of writing. Now in
paperback, this stunningly illustrated book draws on the
unparalleled collections of the British Library, as well as
numerous world-leading institutions, to highlight 76 important,
expressive and individual examples of calligraphy.
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