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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings
In Drawing with a Tablet: Easy Techniques for Mastering Digital
Drawing on Location, readers will learn step by step how to create
amazing drawings while on the go. In the sixth volume of the Urban
Sketching Handbook series, popular artist and workshop instructor
Uma Kelkar shows sketchers how to take their digital drawing to the
next level. Whether you are new to sketching or wish to try the
latest technology, this useful guide shares expert tips and
techniques for drawing on a tablet. With a focus on using the
ProCreate tool, but with information that is relevant to other
digital platforms, you will start with the basics, such as opening
your file, choosing your resolution, determining your palette, and
how to simplify your tools by creating a preferred set of brushes.
The book also covers using layers and groups of layers, and shows
you how to create a sketch from start to finish. Whether you are
drawing at home, en plein air, on the go, or even at night, learn
how to enliven your digital drawings and enhance your skills.
A demonstration of drawing techniques for capturing the movement of
clothed figures, and how each action of the body affects the
clothing.
In this reissue of his popular book, Vic Bearcroft shares his love
of drawing and painting wild animals, showing how to capture the
personality and distinctive features of a variety of creatures.
Using simple steps and plenty of detail, this guide shows you how
to create beautiful artworks, from drawing the basic shapes through
to realising your favourite animals in your preferred medium.
"Did Rudolf Steiner dream these things? Did he dream them as they
once occurred, at the beginning of all time? They are, for sure,
far more astonishing than the demiurges and serpents and bulls
found in other cosmogonies.' -- Jorge Luis BorgesRudolf Steiner
recorded his view of the world in numerous books. He also gave more
than 5,000 lectures, in which he explained his ideas, using only
minimal notes. When describing especially difficult subjects,
Steiner frequently resorted to illustrating what he was saying with
colored chalk on a large blackboard. After his earlier lectures,
the drawings were erased and irretrievably lost. After the autumn
of 1919, however, thick black paper was used to cover the
blackboards so that the drawings could be rolled up and saved.The
Trustees of Rudolf Steiner's Estate in Dornach, Switzerland,
possess more than a thousand such drawings. A selection of these
drawings was first shown to the general public in 1992, and since
then, exhibitions in Europe, America, and Japan have generated much
interest in Steiner's works.
Written by a long-time expert on drawing and painting human
anatomy, Classic Human Anatomy in Motion offers artists everything
they need to realistically draw the human figure as it is affected
by movement. Written in a friendly style, the book is illustrated
with hundreds of life drawing studies (both quick poses and long
studies), along with charts and diagrams showing the various
anatomical and structural components. This comprehensive manual
features five distinct sections, each focusing on a different
aspect of the human figure: bones and joint movement, muscle
groups, surface form and soft tissue characteristics, structure,
and movement. Each chapter builds an artistic understanding of how
motion transforms the human figure and can create a sense of
expressive vibrancy in one's art.
Choose your new best friend from this cuddly collection of 28
playful puppies. Best-selling artist Susie Hodge teaches you to
transform simple shapes into 28 cute and characterful puppies in a
range of much-loved breeds, including beagles, goldendoodles,
Frenchies, huskies and labradors. There are 28 different doggies to
draw, in a variety of playful poses. Each project starts with a few
basic outlines and progresses into a finished tonal drawing, and a
final coloured version shows you how to develop your drawing even
further. Perfect for beginners, as well as budding artists, you'll
be amazed how easily you too can bring these playful pooches to
life with this inspiring guide.
Breathe Life into Your Animal Drawings Wildlife artist Doug
Lindstrand has spent 30+ years observing animals in nature and
capturing them on paper. In this book, he distills his expertise
into key lessons for drawing any animal in a charming, realistic
style. Inside, a whole herd of step-by-step exercises and
demonstrations (43, to be exact!) cover a broad range of subjects
and challenges, including how to draw: Short, long and patterned
fur Mouths, eyes, ears and horns Various poses, including seated,
standing and moving A diversity of animals, domestic and wild--from
housecats to big cats, from tiny cottontails to massive African
elephants. Nothing intimidating here! Starting with easy sketches,
you'll learn to gradually refine basic shapes into lifelike dogs,
wolves, deer, sheep, horses, bears, giraffes, owls, eagles, geese
and other magnificent creatures. With this classic and time-tested
approach, you'll be able to draw not only the animals illustrated
on these pages, but any animal that touches your artistic soul.
Be inspired by this fun compilation sketchbook of four favorite
volumes from Quarry Books' 20 Ways series! Designed to offer
artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection
of illustration fun, each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated
examples of 135 themes, over 3600 drawings total! From trees and
flowers to animals and sea creatures and everything in between.
Don't worry, there's tons of room for you to draw your own versions
of these amazing doodles right on the pages. This is not a
step-by-step technique book - within the pages you'll find drawings
simplified, modernized, and reduced to the most basic elements,
showing you how simple abstract shapes and forms create the
building blocks of any item that you want to draw. Each of the 20
interpretations provides a different, interesting approach to
drawing a single item, providing loads of inspiration for your own
drawing. These four artists each have a uniquely creative style,
resulting in an engaging and motivational practice book that
provides a new take on the world of sketching, doodling, and
designing.
Both serious artists and casual doodlers can use the handsome sketchbooks, now offered in seven colors, four sizes, and with the options of lizard finish or Kivar covers and a sewn or spiral wire-o binding. Many choose the popular large format for sketching outdoors or for toting to art class. Others like to toss the smaller sizes into a purse or backpack. The archival-quality, vellum-finish paper is especially appealing to artists. It will not yellow with time, ensuring the preservation of their drawings, and its smooth surface readily accepts any drawing medium. The spiral-bound version opens flat. All the covers have a leatherlike finish but are actually tough and waterproof.
Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks to the Little
Ways to Live a Big Life books! As children, when we learn to write,
we gain an important life skill: a practical means of communicating
that we end up using almost every day of our lives, if only to jot
down a shopping list or dash out an email. As children, we also
know instinctively that drawing is a great way to communicate, but
later in life it isn't universally valued and nurtured in the way
that writing is. It's not seen as a necessity, it's seen as a
specialism. As a result, most of us stop drawing completely, apart
from the odd doodling. More than that, we lose all confidence in
our ability to draw. Yet drawing is an incredibly prac tical way of
turning what's inside your head into something tangible and useful.
It can equip you with new means of solving problems, sharing ideas
and telling stories. How to Draw Anything sets out to repair our
broken relationship with drawing. It will inspire you to pick up
that pencil from where you left it all those years ago and start
making pictures again. It will give you back the confidence and joy
in drawing you never should have lost. And it will take drawing out
of the art world and put it into your world, introducing you to
drawing as a practical tool for everyday life that will change the
way you work, think and communicate.
All drawing is based on the simple construction of lines and
shapes. This great new series teaches how to draw popular subjects
in extremely easy step-by-step stages. Even an absolute beginner
will be able to create great drawings following these
illustrations. In this book, Paul Davies includes a fantastic range
of dragons from fearsome flying and fighting beasts to
fire-breathing creatures and endearing cartoon-like characters.
This book opens an exciting and extensive archive of fashion
illustration by Francis Marshall (1901-1980), held at the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London. Marshall's career coincided with the
golden age of fashion illustration and commercial art. Active from
the 1920s until the 1960s, his work was published widely, from
Vogue magazine to the more accessible and widely read pages of the
Daily Mail. Marshall also worked extensively in advertising, for
companies such as Jaeger and Elizabeth Arden, and released several
books - ranging from manuals on drawing fashion and ballet, to the
nostalgic records of fashionable society London West and An
Englishman in New York. Francis Marshall: Drawing Fashion shines a
light on a sometimes-forgotten master, at a time when fashion
illustration is very much in style.
The addition to bestselling author Christopher Hart's Figure It
Out! series offers essential tips and tricks that simplify the
basics of drawing people. This is the easy way to learn how to draw
people! Chris Hart offers straightforward instruction designed to
solve common figure-drawing problems that aspiring artists
encounter. His accessible, practical techniques include focusing on
the body's natural curves, as opposed to drawing muscles, and
breaking the torso down into three distinct, understandable areas.
With this book, anyone can immediately grasp the basics--and create
the art to prove it!
Take your doodling skills to the next adorable level with this
follow-up to popular YouTube artist Pic Candle's best-selling
Kawaii Doodle Class and Kawaii Doodle Cuties-featuring over 100
lovable, huggable characters to draw into over 20 lively doodle
scenes. Kawaii Doodle World also includes simple step-by-step
illustrations and instructions, search-and-find puzzle patterns
that you can color, inspiration pages, and even a doodle refresher
course. Pic Candle shows you all the steps for drawing all sorts of
adorable characters-cupcakes, donuts, lattes, mushrooms, office
supplies, potted plants, stars and planets, doodle monsters, and
more-into super-fun doodle scenes. Complete each scene by
embellishing it with fun decorations and whimsical patterns. Soon
enough, you will be filling every page of your sketchbook with your
own kawaii doodle world. So, let's get this doodle party started!
Learn how to draw even more cute things with these other fun books
in the Kawaii Doodle series: Kawaii Doodle Class, Kawaii Doodle
Cuties, Mini Kawaii Doodle Class, and Mini Kawaii Doodle Cuties.
Have you ever wondered who your favourite artists admire and who
they want to shine a spotlight on? Wonder no longer. In this first
volume of Accolades, a wide range of musicians, composers, and
songwriters praise and present their treasured gems. Contributors
from Steve Albini to "Weird Al" Yankovic, from Julien Baker to
Margo Price, present accolades to cherished colleagues, to amazing
actors and authors, to admired activists and athletes, to precious
poets and esteemed engineers. Belgian-based illustrator Tom De
Geeter thoughtfully curated this line-up of contributors. He
interviewed close to 200 artists and asked them just these two
questions: who do you want to honour and why? De Geeter's vivid,
bold yet delicate line drawings accompany their answers in style
and make Accolades a more than exceptional project for you to dive
right into. Close to 200 contributions by musicians like Steve
Albini, Julien Baker, Jehnny Beth, Dan Deacon, Feist, Steve Gunn,
Tim Heidecker, Page Hamilton, Joan As Police Woman, Lambchop,
Larkin Poe, Ian MacKaye, Mark Mothersbaugh, Margo Price, Mauro, Sun
Kil Moon, Mike Watt, "Weird Al" Yankovic, but also from members of
bands like Amenra, Bad Company, Bauhaus, Efterklang, Fleet Foxes,
Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Grandaddy, Grizzly Bear, Guided by
Voices, The Hold Steady, Khruangbin, Royal Trux, Unsane, Xiu Xiu,
and many more.
This book provides a thorough and expert guide to the subject of
botanical drawing, through detailed text, examples of the author's
own studies, short exercises and larger projects. Penny Brown
produces traditional botanical drawings primarily rendered in
pencil. The book touches on the history of botanical drawing, the
rules and practicalities, and includes an accessible, basic study
of botany for the absolute beginner. From creating an initial line
drawing to adding tone and then creating more complex compositions,
Botanical Drawing is a detailed study of the practice for anyone
wishing to explore the subject in great depth, led by an expert
artist.
This hands-on practical guide provides dyslexic young people with
techniques to improve their observational drawing skills, showing
them how they can work around the issues commonly reported by
students with SLDs. Many creative and talented individuals with
neurological differences report difficulties with short-term
memory, co-ordination and planning ahead within a project, and a
lack of specialised teaching may even dissuade them from pursuing
art at school. This book addresses those challenges. The authors,
who have many years' experience of teaching art to dyslexic and
dyspraxic students, also include examples not just of the
techniques described, but also of the creative ideas other
neurodiverse students have come up with. Fully illustrated, with
clear explanations, and space to draw and sketch, this much needed
book will provide dyslexic art students with the tools and
confidence to achieve their goals and become the creative
professionals of the future.
The Lindley Library of the RHS has a collection of some 18,000
drawings and paintings by eminent botanical artists of all periods
up to the present day. This book contains a selection of the rarest
and most beautiful: flowers, fruit, fungi and other plants from all
over the world, by artists such as G.D. Ehret, John and William
Curtis, Ferdinand Bauer, William Hooker, W.H. Fitch, Augusta
Withers, Margaret Stones and Mary Grierson. All the illustrations
are reproduced from the artists' originals.;The book includes a
history of the collection and each plate is accompanied by a
description of its origin and artistic accomplishment, and a
botanical and horticultural account of the plant itself.
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