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More than 25 step-by-step demonstrations to guide you through creating each body part of your manga characters. Over 130 lessons for facial anatomy, poses, clothing and accessories, and common hairstyles and emotions. Turn your your full-sized manga characters into chibis with easy techniques.

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Shows you how to use a viewfinder to determine cropping and framing to create the best relationship of value masses. This work helps you learn to analyse paintings in terms of colour shapes of value, hue and intensity - the elements that make a painting. It also includes before/after examples to illustrate how use the rules for good composition.

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There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how to achieve an authentic manga stylefrom drawing faces and figures to laying out awesome, high-drama spreads.

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15 colourful step-by-step demonstrations of coastal subjects.

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Break free of your comfort zone, sharpen your senses to perceive the world around you and find happiness in play.

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Featuring 8 beautiful watercolor flower demonstrations, Birgit O'Connor's lessons are perfect for the beginning watercolorist. She'll explain information critical to beginners such as value, shadow composition, creating shape, layering color, simplifying backgrounds, establishing focal points, masking and more.

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Perfect for beginners but with exciting new ideas for long-time mixed-media artists, this book allows you to explore a variety of materials and techniques to find what speaks to you, all while creating colorful and exciting abstract art.

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You can create beautiful art with amazing depth and texture, using easy collage techniques and paper you paint yourself.

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Provides the reader with the information they need to know to paint with pastels, from materials to techniques to painting from photographs. This title demonstrates the varied techniques of the medium, including different types of strokes, blending, layering, underpainting and mixing media.

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Pastel Painting Techniques That Are Revolutionary, Fun and Easy!

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There's something here to fit just about any home. And best of all, the straightforward joinery makes the projects simpler to build. Shaker Furniture Projects is an invaluable resource that you're sure to use again and again.

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Offers concise instructions that targets specific topics in specific mediums, which are often requested by practicing artists who want to experiment with their medium - or find a new one. This title also provides the portability and easy-to-follow instruction that appeals to newer artists still finding their way.

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A must-have reference for every watercolorist! This complete guide to watercolor covers everything from basic art concepts and techniques to special effects and pointers for painting popular subjects. Secrets of Watercolor: From Basics to Special Effects is a handy reference that beginners and experienced artists simply can't be without.

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The method for teaching in this book begins with 18 helpful tools which train the mind how to see. The author explains to readers how, where and why to use them. The core of the book is spent teaching how to lay out the face, placing special features, and making it look real.

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Sketching and drawing from life is fundamental to artists, who have always used it to record observations, experiences and ideas. Artists also want to use their sketchbooks to capture the character of everyday life in their drawings. This work helps readers learn how to develop the skills necessary in order to add life to their drawings.

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In this book, you'll learn the different qualities of words and the many ways those words can be combined to create sentences that hook readers. You'll emulate sentences from your favorite writers, practice proven techniques, and develop your skills one step at a time.

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While any subject can be developed with a variety of compositional strategies, in most cases, it is not the subject but the composition of the work that gives a painting its originality and appeal. How you compose your painting determines the way people will view it and how they will be affected by it emotionally.

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Capture important family information and special life stories for you and your loved ones for generations to come.

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Tell your own stories and tales in collage layers of paper, images, fabrics, objects and more collected from your world.

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Celebrating the best drawings by contemporary artists, the Strokes of Genius series follows the beautiful, ongoing story of contemporary drawing through the work and words of some of today's top artists. Focusing on the theme "Inspiring Subjects," this thoughtfully curated 10th edition features the artists' most compelling subject matter.

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Pure coloring bliss!

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Fail-proof colored pencil techniques to transform good portrait art into detailed works of realism