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Learn how to draw almost anything! With over 150 drawings to try out in four easy steps, you'll never be short of inspiration. There are tips and tricks on how to make the best of your pictures, and the final drawings show how you can colour them to look just like the real thing! With topics including Dinosaurs, Fantasy Characters, Speed Machines, Wild Animals and Manga, there's something for everyone. So grab your pens, pencils and paints and discover...
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Hailing from the suburbs of Montreal, Canada, Martin is a finance director by day and a comic book artist by night. His passion for comic books exudes through the pages of “SuperHeroes and Other Drawings”.
The book is a continuation of Martin's legacy as an artist, one that was once left abandoned due to the pangs of life.
But lo and behold, his comeback arc commences.
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The Ultimate Children's Drawing Book (Age 8 and up)
#1 New Release in Children's Cartooning Books, Children's Sculpture Books, and Children's Art Techniques
This step-by-step drawing guide is essential for all kids! With over 500 things to draw, your child will be entertained for hours while learning a new skill. The Big Book of Drawing for Kids makes learning how to draw easy!
Turn creativity into ability. The activities in The Big Book of Drawing...
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Art Lab for Kids: Express Yourself contains 52 brand new original art projects that will draw out each young artist as they discover their style, document their thoughts, and build confidence in their unique perspective. Each lesson asks questions and offers personal choices while encouraging diverse approaches and creative thinking.
One of the most important gifts we can give children is to nurture their creativity and allow them to express themselves...
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A Pen is mightier than a Sword!
Now discover the true power of a pen in this amazing guide to sketching like a boss.
This one-of-a-kind exercise book will set all your sketching fears to rest and guide you step-by-step in drawing the most awesome illustrations.
Come join Shirish on this amazing journey of discovery.
What will you learn?- The concepts of shadows and highlights.- Shading techniques using pens.- Various 'texture hacks' for drawing...
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A Copybook for Japanese Ink Painting is designed for artists who are eager to find a new outlet for his talents. The paintings are the work of Shutei Ota, an artist who has had a long career of introducing Japanese ink-painting to Westerners. As a teacher, she has found the language barrier to be no handicap. She teaches by showing, by example, and by holding the hands of her students-beginning immediately with strokes and foregoing preliminary sketches....
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Maybe it's the colors, or the eye-stretching vistas, or maybe it's just the idea that harmony can exist on a square of canvas, but there is something in art that lets it calm and inspire at the same time. In Drawing Calm, artist Susan Evenson, shows readers how to do the same. It's a book for everyone-non-artists as well as those with plenty of experience in a studio. Using restful, but dynamic works of art as a starting point, Susan Evenson teaches how...
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With big glossy eyes and soft pudgy cheeks, it's hard not to love manga chibis and critters. In this latest addition to the Walter Foster Studio series for tweens, aspiring artists can learn all about these cute creatures as they follow along with step-by-step drawing projects that range from a mischievous chibi princess and a roly poly ninja to a furry manga bunny and a cuddly panda cub. Also included is a chapter on how to render any animal or person...
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This book exists in three parts:
Part 1: Personal development.
Part 2: Drawing lessons.
Part 3: Painting lessons.
When you start painting, your personal development positively affects your entire life. You will experience people, animals, and things around you differently because your perception changes. With the practical exercises from this book, you will learn to draw and paint very well and experience the world more intensively.
After reading...
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Create effective portraits in a matter of minutes with this practical drawing guide, written by experienced art educator Susie Hodge.
Producing portraits has always been considered an important skill for artists, so Just Draw! Faces in 15 Minutes explains the skills a budding artist needs so that you can try your hand at a variety of projects, all in easy, 15-minute periods.
You'll learn:
• How to create quick sketches
• How to convey age,...
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Learn how to draw cool creatures, awesome wildlife, and all your favorite animals with step-by-step instructions and helpful tips on the best drawing tools to try out. Follow along with your sketchbook, pens, and pencils as this easy-to-follow instructional book teaches you how to illustrate your favorite animals. With more than 150 step-by-step illustrations, Drawing Animals is the perfect guide for aspiring artists. Each chapter starts off simple,...
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With Tangled Up, now young adults and tweens can discover this innovative art form in a colorful, inspiring, and guided exploration through the world of tangling. After reviewing a few basic tools and materials, along with basic techniques and embellishments helpful for getting started, tweens will embark on a creative journey through a variety of prompts, patterns, and projects guided by talented artist and teacher Penny Raile. Featured subject matter...
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Super Fun Art Activities for Kids introduces kids and their families to an amazing range of ideas for art projects that both entertain and educate.
Teachers, parents, homeschoolers, caretakers, and kids themselves will find inspiration and instruction for art projects using all kinds of materials and techniques to create hours of edutainment for kids of all ages. Projects include drawing, painting, printmaking, paper, collage, and mixed media-all...
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In this book, William F. Powell invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to render a variety of beautiful trees in pencil. The author explains a number of basic drawing techniques before exploring basic tree shapes and leaf types. As you learn how to draw branches, bark, and ground foliage, step by step, youÆll also discover important tips about shading, creating textures, setting up compositions, and applying perspectiveùhelping...
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Learn to create detailed female characters to include in your own comic strip or graphic novel!
Professional manga and anime artist Kyachi offers aspiring artists an easy-to-follow approach to drawing manga women. For beginners, it can be intimidating to know where to start when drawing the human form. This book is meant to dispel those fears and wipe away any hesitation, so you can begin with a blank page or empty screen and start populating it...
957) Crochet: Mandalas
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Los mandalas hablan de la naturaleza, de la vida, de las energías y del mundo interior de cada persona. En busca de alcanzar esa conexión con la espiritualidad y de fusionarla con el crochet, diseñamos este libro que invita a crear, a relajarse y a jugar con los colores y las texturas de los hilados.
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In Math Art and Drawing Games for Kids, you'll find an amazing collection of more than 40 hands-on art activities that make learning about math fun!
Create fine art-inspired projects using math, including M. C. Escher's tessellations, Wassily Kandinski's abstractions, and Alexander Calder's mobiles.
Make pixel art using graph paper, grids, and dot grids.
Explore projects that teach symmetry with mandala drawings, stained glass rose window art,...
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Discover the creative processes and intriguing inspirations behind the work of leading fantasy artist John Howe — conceptual designer on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy — in this comprehensive practical art book.
• Brings together Fantasy Art Workshop and Fantasy Drawing Workshop into a combined volume, fully updated and with new art.
• Examines in fascinating detail over 150 of the artist's outstanding sketches, drawings and paintings,...
960) Cars and Trucks
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This book introduces aspiring artists to basic drawing concepts and describes in step-by-step instructions how to turn simple shapes into cars and trucks. Young readers will learn to draw a dump truck, a monster truck, a semitruck, a race car and a Volkswagen Beetle. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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