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1) The pencil
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A showcase of pencil works by a master of the medium, this volume explains Paul Calle's process and provides a fantastic gallery of demonstrations and inspiration for artists at intermediate to advanced levels. Calle - whose clients have included NASA, the National Park Service, Ladies' Home Journal, and the U.S. Postal Service - explores pencil drawing as a serious medium rather than just a preliminary to painting.
Starting with a brief history...
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A range of projects for the reader to draw, from simple still lifes and full-blown landscape compositions to individual portraits. Beginning with the basics of mark-making, learn how to create sensational artworks in easy steps. Chapter topics include marks and materials, line drawing, tonal drawing, observation in drawing, proportion and perspective, composition, interiors, around the house and exteriors, and drawing a local scene.
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Look Closer, Draw Better is a step-by-step technique book based on observational drawing by a noted American artist and author-written for advanced beginners and up, offering techniques in graphite, charcoal, ink, and watercolour wash. 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...
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"Learn to use colored pencils and watercolor pencils to create vibrant, exciting works of art! Modern Colored Pencil delves into all the basic techniques and concepts required to create fresh, colorful works of colored pencil art. Talented artist Chelsea Ward takes you on a lively, easy-to-follow exploration of colored pencils in this book, which is packed with creative exercises and projects designed to show you how to work with the versatile, approachable...
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This classic guide offers clear, concise instruction in the basics as well as the finer points of pencil drawing. Appropriate for beginning and intermediate students, it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects-mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes-and demonstrate a tremendous variety of techniques. An architect, painter, art director, and teacher, Arthur L. Guptill wrote several...
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"Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide to using colored pencils by Veronica Winters, author of How to Color Like an Artist. Step-by-step demonstrations with photos and directions illustrate the many details that bring a simple composition to brilliant life, offering readers a comprehensive overview of colored pencil techniques. A brief introduction covers necessary materials and explains the book's...
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"Organized as a series of lessons in classic drawing technique, each chapter offers both process and finished works by the founding artists and other instructors of the Famous Artists School, allowing readers to see a wide variety of approaches to learning how to draw and styles of rendering"--
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Charles Evans shows you how to get the very best results from watercolor pencils in next to no time!
Watercolor pencils are versatile, fun and easy-to-use no matter where you are. In Quick & Clever Watercolor Pencils, Charles leads you through the entire process of learning how to use these invaluable tools effectively, revealing his ingenious tips and tricks along the way.
• Packed with information on tools, materials and techniques
• Varied...
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"Based on author and art instructor Claire Watson Garcia's successful courses and workshops for beginning and aspiring artists, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner applies a positive, accepting tone to a progressive series of lessons in sketching and rendering"--
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2022
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Learn how to create realistic 3D art with this collection of step-by-step techniques and tutorials for creating hyperrealistic art using coloured pencils.
The trend for hyper realistic artworks featuring high shine subjects is inspiring a new generation of artists. Take your art to the next level with this collection of step-by-step techniques and tutorials for creating hyper realistic artwork. Artist and author, Amie Howard,
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Colored Pencil Step by Step, from the acclaimed Walter Foster Artist's Library Series, is filled with information that will help artists of all levels learn all about drawing with colored pencil.
*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*
This colorful, comprehensive guidebook explores drawing and layering colors, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your...
*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*
This colorful, comprehensive guidebook explores drawing and layering colors, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your...
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Anyone with a little persistence and the desire can learn to draw well - this is the starting point for The Fundamentals of Drawing, a practical and comprehensive course for students of all abilities. Opportunities for practice and improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects - still life, plants, landscapes, animals, figure drawing and portraiture - and supported by demonstrations of a broad range of skills and techniques, including...
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Mark-making is a basic human instinct, and it's something that we take to with joyous unselfconsciousness long before we reach school and formal learning. As we grow older, however, we become more conscious of what we can't do and the whole business of art can begin to seem beyond our reach.
In An Introduction to Drawing, artist and teacher Robin Hazlewood restores that lost confidence by his belief that most of us can draw as long as we learn to...
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In this companion volume to his highly successful The Fundamentals of Drawing, Barrington Barber takes the aspiring artist one step further in the quest for greater skill and competence. If you have come this far on the journey with him you will know that the more you practise the more visual surprises you are presented with and the more problems there are to be overcome. In Advanced Drawing Skills you will be shown how to find solutions to these...
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With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil.
Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive, 10.25 × 13.75–inch book book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials....
Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive, 10.25 × 13.75–inch book book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials....
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The human figure is one of the most popular subjects for artists, and a thorough working knowledge of anatomy is essential for those wishing to portray it successfully. With clear, annotated diagrams throughout, this is a comprehensive yet accessible art book on drawing the human anatomy; with each chapter dealing with a different part of the body, making it easy to look up different body areas.
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The perfect start-up book for those who wish to learn how to draw. Barrington Barber, one of the world's best-selling artists, covers the basic skills needed for drawing. Barrington has an inimitable style that is truly accessible to all. This title covers all essential introductory techniques to shading, line, perspective, composition and more.
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