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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.
Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart here taps into his
vast experience to prove that anyone can depict the human body.
Chris has carefully designed his step-by-step instructions so that
they're accessible to absolute beginners, especially kids 12 and
up. His simplified, yet detailed, guidance covers drawing the head
and body of men, women and children in a wide variety of facial
features, expressions, styles and poses. Learn to capture the many
personalities and activities of people in everyday life, from
firefighters, doctors, soldiers and students to swimmers,
skateboarders, gymnasts and even daydreamers. A quick look through
this book will make it clear to any aspiring artist that you can
learn to draw, quickly and easily - and love every step along the
way!
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.
In The Wood Burn Book, Rachel Strauss (@woodburncorner) teaches you
everything you'll need to know to master pyrography, whether you're
brand new to the hobby or you've been "writing with fire" for
years. This essential guide opens with a brief background to the
art of wood burning, a list of tools and how to use them, basic
techniques that can be used over and over again, and even what to
burn and how to be safe doing it. You will also find a detailed
explanation of the process from start to finish, with patterns,
techniques for lettering and adding color, as well as dozens of
projects ready for gifting, including picture frames, cutting
boards, coasters, cards, wooden spoons, and jewelry. Above all,
Strauss has created the book she wished she had when she first
discovered pyrography: a simple guide that quickly gets the reader
successfully burning. With the right tools and a little time,
you'll be able to create meaningful handmade gifts without breaking
the bank. Whether it's to create a family name sign as a
housewarming gift for newlyweds, or customize baby blocks for a new
little one, wood burning is the versatile hobby that can be used
time and time again to create memorable gifts for all of life's
occasions. In addition, wood burning is a practice in mindfulness,
requiring patience and focus to awaken the senses and calm the
mind. Mastering the art of writing with fire begins with the
ability to follow a line. If you can trace, you can burn.
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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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.
From soft pencils to graphite powder, ballpoint to fibre-tip pens,
conte sticks to watercolour pencils, this unique guide covers
everything you need to know to begin mastering and combining
different media in your drawing. This visual directory of drawing
techniques beyond the pencil provides you with the skills to
explore and experiment with all the different techniques and
mediums. Use it as a handy reference for when you want to know how
to use a particular tool, or as a catalogue of inspiration when
seeking new ideas to try. A wealth of media and equipment is
demonstrated, and each page features invaluable information for
beginners and accomplished artists alike. As the techniques
progress, you'll explore the creative possibilities beyond one
medium, and be encouraged to look at your work and style in a new
light. Use the examples shown to aid expression and skill
development and to look at the myriad possibilities of mixed media,
which have all been selected because of their compatibility. Start
with basic graphite pencils, sticks and powder to explore line and
tone, shading, creating textures and erasing. Then move on to
coloured pencils to cover techniques such as burnishing, lifting
and sgraffito. There are various interesting methods to try with
water-soluble coloured pencils too, including different ways of
applying water, blending and overlaying colours. Explore the
effects that you can create with charcoal or conte sticks on
different coloured and textured papers, and discover how to use
pastel pencils and chalks for expressive drawing. Then master
blending, shading and scumbling with hard and soft pastels, and
perfect your techniques with crayons, oil pastels and oil paint
sticks. There are some really interesting ways to use ink pens for
painting effects and instructions are included for cutting your own
quill pen. Ballpoint pens, fibre-tips, marker pens and brush pens
are also great tools for creating modern, graphic drawings - pick
up some handy tips for mark making and blending. Finally,
experiment with mixed media and combining various pencils, pastels,
crayons, powder, sticks and pens for some stunning results. Be
inspired by the huge range of drawings in this book to expand and
develop your own skills.
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.
Draw realistic animal portraits in coloured pencils with
award-winning teacher and animal artist, Lisa Ann Watkins. Animals
are an eternally popular subject for artists but how do you capture
the character of a much-loved pet or bring a favourite animal to
life on the page? Lisa Ann Watkins has made a career of teaching
her coloured pencil techniques, and in this magnificent book she
will show you how. A section on materials covers coloured pencils
and watercolour pencils, along with supporting tools including
PanPastels. This is followed by a chapter about composition and
preparation: how to capture the best reference photographs from
which to work, along with notes on digital tools that can be used
to help with colour choice and tonal values. Lisa's clear, simple
techniques are presented through ten studies that demonstrate how
to breathe life into your portraits by focusing on the subject's
fur texture, bright eyes, and glossy noses. They answer, in simple
terms, common technical questions from students/followers that
cover unique aspects of the medium such as the amount of pressure
to use - and make beautiful artworks in their own right. A series
of five step-by-step full animal portrait projects then follows,
ranging from cats and dogs to cows and horses. Project outlines and
reference photos are available to download for free from
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