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Friends and Crushes focuses on the flirtatious, romantic, and
dramatic characters that run throughout manga stories; from lessons
on romantic poses to flirtatious and dreamy expressions to
irresistible character types, this book covers everything readers
need to go from manga fans to manga artists. After an introduction
to these elements, 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.
Dinosaur skeletons, eggs, bones, and fossils have become
increasingly coveted objects for collectors. Dinosaurs are
Collectible explores the reasons for their popularity and tells the
stories behind the many illustrious finds from the past. This
beautifully illustrated and printed publication by the author of
Wonders are Collectible and Wunderkammer includes a chapter devoted
to dinosaurs in both high and popular culture, and features an
exceptional collection of prints, photos, drawings, and micrograph
scans.
Learn how to letter and create fun, adorable illustrations
featuring everyday objects in this step-by-step guide-with tips,
tricks, and practice space to kickstart your creative journey. In
this effervescent approach to art instruction, artist Jesi Rodgers
opens up her tool kit, sharing techniques, inspiration, and
encouragement to teach the creatively curious how to draw and paint
adorable projects. Adorable Art Class explores Jesi's quirky,
bright, and captivating art style. The lessons show how to create
supercute illustrations of the kinds of things we see every day:
Flowers Teacup Bike Cat Taco Donut Apple Along the way, we learn
about color, materials, tools, and finding your creative voice.
With helpful prompts and projects using a range of techniques and
mediums, from pencil sketching to marker coloring, anyone can
master this cute and adorable art style.
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.
One of the difficulties about how our minds work is that we often
cannot quite clearly see or know what is inside us. Art therapists
have a longstanding tradition of prescribing image-making to prompt
expression of feelings, often by asking people to draw, paint, or
sculpt "how you feel." It is one of the fundamental approaches in
the field that distinguishes art therapy from verbal techniques
that ask people to simply talk about their emotions. Author Erica
Jong once wrote that imagery is a form of emotional shorthand. This
could be interpreted to mean that while we may use paragraphs of
prose to describe an emotional experience, images allow us to
communicate simply and directly. At its core, art therapy embraces
the paradigm that creating images cuts to the chase when it comes
to expressing feelings. The point is not to draw well. But to draw
with authenticity. This is specifically a book for people who can't
draw.
If you want to draw cats but don't know where to start, this is the
book for you! 10 Step Drawing: Cats will help you turn simple
shapes into beautiful cat drawings in just ten steps. Each drawing
starts with easy, geometric shapes and simple guide lines, and the
cats are drawn in a variety of poses that typify the particular
breed. Each drawing includes a helpful colour palette so readers
can easily find the right colours to finish their drawing. There
are even instructions for adding simple details to give each
creature its own personality.
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Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful animal
forms, detailed faces, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic
Animals is a must-have visual reference book for
student artists, scientific illustrators, urban sketchers, and
anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This
contemporary, step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art
concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you
learn to draw a full range of creatures, all shown from a variety
of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning
sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a
skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make
this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Draw Like an Artist: 100
Realistic Animals is the third book in the Draw Like an Artist
series following Faces and Figures and Flowers and Plants.
The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual
references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically
through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists
and illustrators.
Capture your subjects on paper like never before. Look Closer, Draw
Better will transform the way you see the subjects of your artwork,
lighting the way with practical techniques in a range of mediums.
Are you looking to make a leap in the quality of your artwork? Are
you looking for new perspectives on the art of drawing? Or maybe
you want to bring more poetry and presence to your work. Look
Closer, Draw Better will help you reach your goals with projects
that explore graphite, charcoal, ink, and watercolor wash,
emphasizing techniques that Kateri Ewing has refined over years of
practice and teaching. Ewing teaches by training your eye to see
subjects clearly in contour, line, and shadow, while you learn to
make marks with tools that are expressive of what we really see.
Her focus is on nature-birds, flowers, and plants that can be
closely observed. Discover the techniques for capturing the
delicacy of feathers, the natural blemishes on a piece of fruit,
the veins and velvety texture of a leaf-all the tiny details that
enhance the realistic quality of a drawing. Ewing takes you
carefully through every step. Let Look Closer, Draw Better inspire
and transform your artistic eye.
Learn to draw any animal and turn it into a sweet, delightful
creature that always inspires a smile. You Can Draw Cute Animals
features easy techniques for turning up the charm on 30 animals
that run, fly, swim, slither, and waddle. Discover how to create
sparkling eyes, blushing cheeks, joyful smiles, and button noses,
transforming even the most ferocious beasts into delightful,
appealing characters. This comprehensive guide to understanding the
secrets of cute begins with basic drawing techniques and exercises
and a rundown of what factors make things adorable. Yasmina Mattson
of Yasmina Creates (Instagram: @yasminacreates) has devised a
unique, easy, three-step drawing method that includes observation,
simplification and exaggeration using simple shapes, and refining
and adding details. Those techniques are incorporated in creating a
diverse array of animals, including a panda, monkey, kangaroo,
tiger, cat, goat, hedgehog, owl, crow, fox, deer, snail, butterfly,
seal, duck, flamingo, and more. Even complete beginners will feel
confident in their skills to draw any animal in a cute style.
Explore ways to add vivid color with watercolor, pencils, and
markers, to add even more personality and style. Play and
experiment for a creatively satisfying experience. You Can Draw
Cute Animals also features: An exploration of basic supplies and
techniques Ideas and examples for fun variations Tips for adding
accessories and backgrounds to create complete scenes Techniques
for drawing animals in a variety of expressive poses Start creating
your own menagerie of delightful creatures today!
Featuring over 100 images, including step-by-step examples
illustrating how to improve costume renderings. This is an
invaluable resource for students in Costume Rendering and Costume
Design courses, along with professional costume designers looking
to improve their rendering skills. Written to complement any
rendering style.
Many people would love to learn to draw for pleasure, but don't
know where to start. Being faced with a blank page can be daunting
- even for a professional artist. In Sketchbook Challenge,
illustrator Molly Egan shares prompts and ideas to get you started,
encouraging risk-taking and experimentation. The book is split into
three sections: Warm Up, for 5- to 10-minute exercises designed to
stretch your muscles; Weekday, for guided creative drawing prompts
for limited time; and Weekend, for open-ended, in-depth creative
explorations. In addition to the exercises, Molly provides details
on how to build an art kit and encourages artistic exploration
beyond the pages of the book. Sketching is fun and therapeutic, and
Sketchbook Challenge will be the springboard to unleash your
creativity and discover your own style.
THE SEQUEL TO THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLER DRAWING ON THE RIGHT
SIDE OF THE BRAIN From the author of the world's most popular
drawing instruction manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,
this new book helps you discover a new way of drawing and problem
solving. Betty Edwards reveals the role our dominant eye plays in
how we perceive, create, and are seen by those around us. Research
shows that much like being right-handed or left-handed, each of us
has a dominant eye, corresponding to the dominant side of our brain
- either verbal or perceptual. Once you learn the difference and
try your hand at the simple drawing exercises, you'll gain fresh
insights into how you perceive, think, and create. You'll learn how
to not just look but truly see. Generously illustrated throughout,
Drawing on the Dominant Eye offers a remarkable guided tour through
art history, psychology, and the creative process; a must-read for
anyone looking for a richer understanding of our art, our minds,
and ourselves. Praise for Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side
of the Brain: 'Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing
I've done in lockdown' India Knight 'A guide to enhancing
creativity and artistic confidence' Independent
The Ashmolean Museum and the Albertina are collaborating on a
two-part exhibition project that will examine anew the role and the
significance of drawing in Raphael's career. The Ashmolean holds
the greatest collection of Raphael drawings in the world, and the
Albertina is the custodian of a major collection including some of
the most beautiful and important of the artist's sketches. Taken
together, the two collections provide extraordinary resources that,
amplified by carefully-selected international loans, will allow us
to transform our understanding of the art of Raphael. The Oxford
exhibition is based on new research by Dr Catherine Whistler of the
Ashmolean Museum and Dr Ben Thomas from the University of Kent, in
collaboration with Dr Achim Gnann of the Albertina. It will take
Raphael's art of drawing as its focus, with the concept of
eloquence as its underlying structure. Oratory runs as a linking
thread in Raphael's drawings, which stand out for the importance
given to the study of gestures, facial expressions, and
drapery.Moreover, Raphael treated the expressive figure of the
orator - poet, philosopher, muse, apostle, saint or sibyl - in
fascinating and significant ways throughout his life. This
selection of drawings demonstrates how Raphael created a specific
mode of visual invention and persuasive communication through
drawing. He used drawing both as conceptual art (including
brainstorming sheets) and as a practice based on attentive
observation (such as drawing from the posed model). Yet Raphael's
drawings also reveal how the process of drawing in itself, with its
gestural rhythms and spontaneity, can be a form of thought,
generating new ideas. The Oxford exhibition will present drawings
that span Raphael's entire career, encompassing many of his major
projects and exploring his visual language from inventive ideas to
full compositions. The extraordinary range of drawings by Raphael
in the Ashmolean and the Albertina, enhanced by appropriate loans,
will enable this exhibition to cast new light on this familiar
artist, transforming our understanding of Raphael's art.
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.
Oxford has a special place in the history of Pre-Raphaelitism.
Thomas Combe (superintendent of the Clarendon Press) encouraged
John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt at a crucial early
stage of their careers, and his collection became the nucleus of
the Ashmolean collection of works by the Brotherhood and their
associates. Two young undergraduates, William Morris and Edward
Burne-Jones, saw the Combe collection and became enthusiastic
converts to the movement. With Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in 1857 they
undertook the decoration of the debating chamber (now the Old
Library) of the Oxford Union. The group's champion John Ruskin also
studied in Oxford, where he oversaw the design of the University
Museum of Natural History and established the Ruskin School of
Drawing. Jane Burden, future wife of Morris and muse (probably also
lover) of Rossetti, was a local girl, first spotted at the theatre
in Oxford. Oxford's key role in the movement has made it a magnet
for important bequests and acquisitions, most recently of
Burne-Jones's illustrated letters and paintbrushes. The collection
of watercolours and drawings includes a wide variety of appealing
works, from Hunt's first drawing on the back of a tiny envelope for
The Light of the World (Keble College), to large, elaborate chalk
drawings of Jane Morris by Rossetti. It is especially rich in
portraits, which throw an intimate light on the friendships and
love affairs of the artists, and in landscapes which reflect
Ruskin's advice to 'go to nature'. More than just an exhibition
catalogue, this book is a showcase of the Ashmolean's incredible
collection, and demonstrates the enormous range of Pre-Raphaelite
drawing techniques and media, including pencil, pen and ink, chalk,
watercolour, bodycolour and metallic paints. It will include
designs for stained glass and furniture, as well as preparatory
drawings for some of the well-known paintings in the collection.
Get lost in your creativity with 365 Days of Drawing, a thoughtful
and inspiring art journal designed to help you carve out moments of
self-expression. Lorna shows you that drawing does not have to be
scary - it can be done with any materials, in any colour, in any
style and can be done anywhere. Each activity has been given a
loose category: imagination, tutorial, relaxation, colour theory
and observational, so that you can practice a broad range of
drawing skills. Each 'theme' is designed to expand your creative
skills and spark the artist within. With helpful prompts and pages
that encourage you to try new materials to draw with, 365 Days of
Drawing is guaranteed to stir your imagination and put a little
creativity into every single day.
Learn how to draw bunnies and other cute creatures in Lulu Mayo's
unique and quirky style, using simple shapes and easy-to-follow
steps. Featuring cute, cuddly spring animals, including bunnies,
chicks, and lambs, and even spring sloths, unicorns and marshmallow
rabbits. This book will show the reader how to draw quirky
creatures in an easy and inspiring way that will encourage them to
come up with their own creations in no time. Step by step,
illustrator Lulu Mayo will explain how to draw each cute critter by
using simple shapes. The 30 different exercises will keep the
reader entertained and ignite their doodling curiosity, inspiring
them to experiment and dream up their very own spring characters.
2019 jahrt sich Rembrandts Todesjahr zum 350ten Mal. Die
Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, die eine der bedeutendsten
Sammlung seiner Gemalde, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafiken bewahren,
nehmen dieses Jubilaum zum Anlass, den Kunstler in einer
Ausstellung des Kupferstich-Kabinetts zu feiern. Rembrandts Strich
wird sich auf den Grafiker und Zeichner konzentrieren und einen
frischen Blick auf ihn suchen, der vielleicht wie kein zweiter bis
heute als sogenannter "artists` artist" andere Kunstler zur
Auseinandersetzung angeregt hat. Die einzigartige Dresdner Sammlung
- etwa 20 Zeichnungen, die Rembrandt heute zugeschrieben werden und
das nahezu vollstandige druckgrafische Werk - bildet die Grundlage
fur die herausragende Ausstellung. Sie wird ein besonderes
Augenmerk auf seine erzahlerischen Kompositionen, radierten
Selbstbildnissen und die Studien seiner Frau Saskia richten. Die
Ausstellung umfasst rund 100 Werke aus allen Schaffensperioden
Rembrandts und etwa 50 Radierungen und Zeichnungen von Schulern
seiner Werkstatt sowie von spateren Kunstlern, die Rembrandt als
Autoritat und kreative Inspirationsquelle verstanden haben. Die
lange Reihe derer, die ihr Selbstbildnis in Auseinandersetzung mit
Rembrandt definierten, reicht von unmittelbaren Nachfolgern und
Meistern des 18. Jahrhunderts wie Benedetto Castiglione und Georg
Friedrich Schmidt, uber den kongenialen Francisco de Goya ins 20.
Jahrhundert bis heute. Als Beispiele moegen Edouard Manet, Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec, Lovis Corinth, Kathe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann und
Pablo Picasso sowie Marlene Dumas und William Kentridge, aber auch
Kunstler aus der DDR wie A.R. Penck dienen. Indem Werke dieser
Kunstler einbezogen werden, wird Rembrandt als einer der
wichtigsten "Kunstlerkunstler" aller Zeiten vorgestellt.
Ausgewahlte Gegenuberstellungen werden den heutigen Betrachtern
helfen, das Feuerwerk an Kreativitat besser zu verstehen, das
Rembrandt nicht nur zu seiner Zeit freisetzte, sondern auch heute
noch entzundet. Zeitlos fesselnd bleibt Rembrandt durch seine
Radikalitat in Auswahl und unkonventioneller Interpretation
christlicher und profaner Bildthemen, nicht weniger durch seine
Experimentierfreudigkeit - besonders im Gebrauch grafischer
Techniken - als auch durch seinen reflektierten und dabei oft
humorvollen Intellekt, der von seinem sinnlich zupackenden Blick
auf die Welt erganzt wird. Mit leichter Hand, fast spielerisch doch
voller Energie, sprengte er in seiner Zeit Konventionen. Mit seinem
freien, unverkennbaren Strich schuf er Bildwelten, aus denen sein
schier unerschoepfliches Interesse an der Natur als Schoepfung
spricht, sei es die aussere oder die innere des Menschen. Damit
bietet sich eine Fulle von Anknupfungspunkten und Anregungen fur
Kunstler und Betrachter.
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