The top-selling Sterling Sketchbook series now features the popular new Kraft-cover format! With their quality paper and sturdy binding, this is the sketchbook of choice for both amateur and professional artists.   This beautiful sketchbook, with a ribbon marker, contains acid-free, medium-weight drawing paper with a vellum finish that’s perfect for everything from charcoal and pencil to light washes with ink and watercolor. Perforated pages make it easy to tear out “masterpieces� for framing or gift giving. All the copy (title, paper description, size, page count) appears on an attractively designed removable sticker that you can either leave on or remove for a clean, blank front cover.

Capture the essence of the forest with Drawing Trees and Leaves. Trees are a perennially inspiring subject for artists. Think of their beautiful multicolored leaves in the fall, or the way the snow settles on their branches in the winter. Start by learning how to identify trees and leaves, their benefit and life stages, the oldest trees, famous forests, and other fascinating aspects and phases of growth. Then, use this inspiration paired with charming prompts to draw the diverse beauty of these endlessly captivating and beautiful subjects. Flip this book open vertically; these are drawings of tall trees!

After the Reformation the successful painter Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558) dedicated himself to spreading revelations on the nature of God. Lautensack was besides Durer the only German artist who wrote against the iconoclasts, and he believed that he as a painter could explain the images of Revelation better than theologians like Luther. He presented his insights in hundreds of highly sophisticated diagrams that display a wide range of material accessible to an urban craftsman, from the vernacular Bible to calendar illustrations. This study is the first monograph on this extraordinary man, it presents a corpus of his surviving works, analyzes his peculiar theology of the image and locates the elements of his diagrams in the visual world of the Reformation period.

This handy journal showcases rarely seen concept art from My Neighbor Totoro, Studio Ghibli’s classic fantasy film about a family and their adventures with the strange and delightful creatures who live in the neighboring forest.

Complete with full-color artwork on the front and back covers, five interior spreads of concept art, and spot illustrations throughout, this journal is the perfect keepsake for Studio Ghibli fans and animation enthusiasts of all ages.

Pair it with other themed merchandise, including My Neighbor TotoroNotebook, Sketchbook, Pop-UpNotecards, Pencils, and Erasers, or Studio Ghibli 100 Collectible Postcards Volumes 1 and 2, to create an extra-special present.

Take your artwork to new heights with this sketchbook celebrating Castle in the Sky, Studio Ghibli’s spellbinding tale about a boy and a girl and their high-flying quest to find the legendary floating castle, Laputa.

This one-of-a-kind sketchbook featuring a tactile cloth cover with foil stamping, lay-flat binding, and extra-thick pages is perfect for writers, artists, and animation fans alike.

Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field with a great variety of academic approaches, asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation, and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.

Originally published in 1923. The author was a well known early cartoonist and book illustrator.Contents Include: Originality In Pen Drawing And Design - To My Fellow Students - Various Methods and Various Means - A Few Hints To Special Artists - A Few Hints To Lady Students - A Little Captious Criticism of The Lady Art Student - The Illustrating of Books. The book is well illustrated with examples of the authors work and hints for the student. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.