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Helps kids and aspiring artists alike learn how to create everything from puppies to aircraft, horses to skyscrapers and aliens to racing cars. In this series, the author shows how to draw sixty of his most popular drawings step by step. It also helps budding artists learn the basic movements and procedures of drawing.

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Suitable for children aged 7 to 10, this dinosaur drawing guide combines humour, creativity, and dino research to show young artists how to breathe life into drawings of their prehistoric favourites. Lessons cover things from the most famous dinos like T Rex and Stegasaurus to some cool, lesser-known creatures.

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A guide to learning the basic drawing skills needed to successfully create video game art. It demonstrates how fine art principles like drawing skills, anatomy, values and lighting and colour all apply to the creation of artwork for video games. It features artwork from such hit video games as "Halo Reach", "Zelda", and "Super Mario Galaxy 2".

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This drawing tutorial from best-selling author Christopher Hart shows artists how to draw exaggerated musculature of super-sized figures in action poses.

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The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.

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Focuses on the three key types of drawing, explanatory sketches, notational sketches and visual narratives that help designers think through and communicate their ideas. Through these three fundamentals, this title provides a course in creating clear graphic layouts and diagrams, including expressive human forms, and thumbnailing a process.

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This instructive volume has been designed to help artists learn to draw by careful emulation of master works. The author methodically analyzes 100 famous drawings by such artists as Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt and Watteau, and explains the principles of art exemplified by each sketch.

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Focuses on both the cartoon-like critters and funny mascots that populate the shoujo (girls') style of manga and the more gritty and Gothic animals that inhabit the shounen (boys') style of manga.

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This revised edition covers text on artistic anatomy. It includes 75 never before published drawings from the Burne Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. Action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest.

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Using charcoal, pen and ink, brush and paint, and pencil, this book shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. The five different categories of light and shade are examined - single-source light, double-source light, diffused light, moonlight and sculptural light.

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A demonstration of drawing techniques for capturing the movement of clothed figures, and how each action of the body affects the clothing.

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A landscape painting guide for oil painters that breaks landscapes down into component elements from nature, and showcases tools and techniques used by classic and modern oil painters for bringing these scenes to life.

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A guide on creating encaustic art, an ancient medium that is increasingly popular with contemporary fine artists. It features step-by-step techniques with easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations. It includes tips and techniques gleaned from more than 60 professional artists working with the medium internationally.

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A series of inventive drawing projects designed to help artists develop their own creativity. Exercises include redrawing Old Master sketches, making 50 drawings in four hours, creating values, and contour-drawing blindfold.

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Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist's education and at the centre of the art-making process. Suitable for artists seeking fresh approaches to drawing the human figure, this title features more than 20 fundamental figure drawing exercises.

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Encourages amateur photographers to slow down, open their eyes, and respond to what they see to create compelling images that aren't overworked. Through accessible discussions and exercises, this book helps readers learn to use composition, available light, color, and point of view to create stunning photographs in any environment.

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Acclaimed makeup artist Mason reveals the secrets of eye makeup with 50 hot looks. Each selection, from everyday to night-on-the-town, is presented so simply, so clearly, that anyone can have fabulous eyes in just a few steps.

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All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad...look glad...look mad...madder...no, even madder...okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever.

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An inspiring and practical guide to crafting the most realistic and artful crepe paper flowers for arrangements, decor, art, wearables and more, from a San Francisco-based botanical paper artist. Paper flowers continue to be a popular trend in the art and craft space.

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Presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to create comic books, graphic novels and other sequential art forms. This book uses detailed instruction and step-by-step examples to teach key artistic methods like sketching, thumbnailing, reference gathering and using production/digital design methods.

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Foundations of Drawing is a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the history, aesthetics, methods and materials of the drawing medium. Clearly defined demonstrations provide easy access to the practice of drawing as well as the history and development of core drawing techniques.

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In Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators, David Ross shows readers how they can master freehand figure drawing without visual reference by using a modern twist on the classic technique of blocking out the human figure as a mannequin. Step-by-step lessons guide aspiring illustrators from basic poses to extreme motions.

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A showcase of Gregory Heisler's work, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. From the famously controversial portrait of President George H W Bush to the evocative post-9/11 Time magazine cover of Rudolph Giuliani, it reveals the creative and technical processes that led to each frame.

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Starting with the basics of game creation and a look at the artistic skills necessary to get started, this title offers key roles for creators - from concept artists to character animators to marketing artists and beyond. It also features interviews with video game art professionals who've worked for top gaming companies.