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This fully illustrated, user-friendly drawing manual by best-selling artist Barrington Barber incorporates all the elements of his highly successful teaching style. It demonstrates that, with practice and persistence, all of us can benefit from this marvelously satisfying activity. Covering areas including the human figure, still life, the natural world, and landscapes, this book aims to encourage pupils to find their own style through experimentation....
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This fully illustrated user-friendly guide by best-selling artist Barrington Barber reveals the skills required to meet the demands of drawing with a range of media. It demonstrates how we can develop our artistic abilities and respond to the world around us in a creative and absorbing way.
• A step-by-step approach teaches techniques in handling coloured pencil, crayon, pastel, ink and watercolour
• The essential skills required to record a...
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"This is just the book that the many devotees of tangling have been waiting for. Packed with step-outs of more than 70 of the most popular tangles, many of them created by Zentangle originators, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, together with finished artworks showing how they can be used, this book's wealth of visual treats will provide endless inspiration and stimulation for tanglers of all levels of experience. The handy size only adds to the book's...
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With clear step-by-step instructions, practical information about the composition of the face and head, plus helpful tips on developing a personal style, Drawing Portraits is the ultimate guide for art students who want to develop their abilities in producing great portraits. Accompanied by approximately 200 specially drawn images, the book also offers information on various aspects of portraiture that are often overlooked, such as conveying the feel...
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In Drawing Anatomy, teacher and artist, Barrington Barber, begins his exploration of this area of art by explaining what the body is made of and then reviews each section of the human figure in detail in separate chapters. Aimed at artists of all abilities, Drawing Anatomy is packed with easy-to-follow, fully annotated illustrations.
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Of all the genres in art, figure drawing is the oldest. From the figures painted on the walls of ancient caves to modern-day representations of everyday people, artists have always sought to perfect their depictions of family, friends, and others around them.
In Drawing Figures, teacher and artist Barrington Barber begins his exploration of this area of art with anatomy and encompasses all aspects of figure drawing, showing you how to make the best...
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"This inspiring drawing manual will help you to build your skills and develop your creativity, whatever your level of experience. Bestselling art instruction author Barrington Barber shows how to find subjects that interest you and develop them into attractive artworks that you and others can enjoy.You will discover how to create geometric compositions and patterns, explore the natural world as a source of inspiration, and see how everyday subjects...
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"Drawing is the backbone of art and design; with all of the tantalizing wonders of the digital world, the best designers, illustrators and artists know that it's good to step back occasionally and hit the refresh button on your hand and mind. Playing with Sketches is a hands-on, fun approach to exploring drawing principles. Beginning with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play, this book brings you through a series...
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This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new "20 Ways" series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes–tulips, roses, dahlias, and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Tulip. This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the stylized...
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"An understanding of anatomy is essential to being able to draw the human body, whether at rest or in movement. In this particular drawing book, expert anatomical drawing educator Jennifer Crouch shows how the human body works, from understanding how the skeleton fits together, to how the muscles and tendons work to support and move the body. She shows how to create form and tone and how to achieve realistic skin texture as well as reflecting posture,...
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John Muir Laws's guide to drawing birds is itself winged, soaring between a devotion not only to art but also to the lives, forms, and postures of the birds themselves. Here, artistic technique and the exquisite details of natural history intertwine, and drawing becomes the vehicle for seeing. As Laws writes, "To draw feathers, you must understand how feathers grow, overlap, and insert into the body. To create the body, you must have an understanding...
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Ralph Masiello brings a festive Christmas-inspired twist to his popular drawing series. Step-by-step diagrams show young artists how to draw Santa, Mrs. Claus, elves, reindeer, snowmen, and many more North Pole friends. Challenge steps encourage kids to add further details.
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Barrington Barber takes as his starting point the belief that everyone - whatever their experience - can learn to draw well. In this book, after introducing different drawing materials and mark making, he goes on to show how line, tone and proportion can be used to create convincing, realistic drawings. Exercises are set out in easy steps so the drawing process is clear for all to follow. Tuition in essential drawing techniques is accompanied by explanations...
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Have you always wanted to learn how to draw your favorite objects from space and the technology people use to explore it? You Can Draw will teach you how and provide interesting facts along the way. Space features six fun topics-from astronauts to space shuttles.
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Creating stylish sketches by hand is easy and fun with this inspiring guide. Freehand breaks down basic drawing techniques into bite-sized chunks, and reveals their practical application in dazzling examples by today's coolest artists. Over 200 innovative works of art demonstrate all the fundamentals-line, tone, composition, texture, and more-and are presented alongside friendly text explaining the simple techniques used to achieve each stylish effect....
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