A compact, easy-to-carry reference guide packed with essential tips, techniques, and practical knowledge for artists of all levels and abilityQuick and clever tips, together with practical exercises will bring more life, soul and detail to your drawingsA go-to resource for the artist, covering everything needed: from perspective and line weights to composition tips and material essentialsCrammed with quick-reference tables, practice drills...

Imagine having the ability to draw any subject with precision, detail and expression. With Claudia's help, you can do it! In How to See, How to Draw, you will discover how to tap into your powers of observation, strengthen your hand-eye connection, and draw the world around you with new skill and accuracy. Just take it one step at a time.Claudia is an expert teacher, breaking down complex compositions into a series of achievable shapes and values that even beginners will u...

Over one hundred useful and thought provoking ways of improving the way your rig your fly fishing gear. Information on sharpening hooks, modifying tackle and fly lines and much more. Mostly learned in the crucible of high end competative fly fishing. Filled with useful tips for beginner and expert alike and illustrated with dozens of clear diagrams and graphics

A traditional drawing class in a book to help you master basic skills, including form, space, depth, proportion, composition, perspective, and more.California State University art professor Jim Dowdalls starts new students out by demonstrating how to use the different types of drawing tools, including how to hold a pencil, how to use supports, and how to make a variety of marks and strokes. Artists will discover helpful information for understanding value and learni...

How to Draw Portraits is a unique collection of techniques, terminology, and examples for the beginner and advanced graphite artist. Over one hundred illustrations support carefully reviewed explanations of elemental technique. Discover that you can draw with an eraser and simulate skin texture with circularism. Find out how to draw hair, and how to break down complex shapes into simple abstract components. Use layers and "punch-up" your work. You can even draw with a brush and graphite du...

Artist Craig Nelson covers all the basics of composition. From perspective to proportion, you will discover the keys to unlocking the secrets needed to improve your skills and create outstanding works of art.

Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner will help you capture these moments in artwork and share them others.In their fun and friendly teaching style, Mark and Mary Willenbrink offer a great beginner's course on drawing nature, showing you how to realistically capture the world around you.All you need to get started are some simple s...

A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us and the techniques of painting lively crowd scenes or portraits of loved ones can be picked up faster than you think.In t...

Landscapes is a favorite painting subject. We all live in the natural world and have personl responses to specific places. This ebook explores a variety of the aspects of the land that are used in any or all landscape paintings. Specifically the earth parts of the landscape. A variety of approaches are discussed and methods that can be employed to assist any artists interested in this process. Specific discussion is given to watercolor and this medium is fully explored in relation to this ...

A must-have reference for anyone who draws!This is your complete guide to drawing-packed with everything you need to know about materials, techniques and drawing styles. Learn the secrets to rendering any subject, and quickly find the answers to common problems and questions so that you can get back to the drawing board. Secrets of Drawing, Start to Finish is a handy, one-stop reference that beginners and experienced artists simply can't be without.

As part of a 10 ebook series this volume, 3, "Fabulous Flowers - Celebrate Color" by Ev Hales is an excuse to explore color almost without bounadries. Flowers have been part of our visual heritage for centuries and as such have always inspired the artist, whatever medium has been used. Discussion of pattern and how to use this to enable an artist to say little but communicate effectively is a skill you will use with any subject you enjoy. Discover how flowers can be presented as part of a ...

An inspiring ebook based on instructional painting ideas and techniques for artists. Utilize the concept of painting less to say more when focusing on still water. Still water is a reflective surface offering the artist many possibilities for evocative and mood filled imagery. Explore the issues related to creating depth across a flat horizontal surface; edge control; tonal gradation and color. Soak up the tranquillity and mystique that is inevitably linked to areas with still water. Obser...