Doodling and colouring have long been known to enhance one's thought processes and provide a relaxing yet highly creative way to free the mind. This title helps you to explore your natural creativity, providing you with some exotic patterns to colour in, however and whenever you feel inspired.
Manga is the art craze and the influence of manga can be seen in films, animation and comics the world over. This book goes back to basics explaining what the manga style is and the tools and materials needed. It follows a series of tutorials on how to draw individual character elements such as eyes, hair, hands, and clothing.
Helps you learn how to create beautiful paintings of mountains, valleys and streams using a range of brushes and simple techniques. This book offers a useful advice on mixing colours from a limited palette, and on composing a pleasing scene from photographs. It covers step-by-step demonstrations, which show how beautiful paintings can be achieved.
Offers the techniques needed to create manga characters, with drawings in pencil, ink, and colour. This book helps readers learn how to draw bodies and faces, eyes and hair, hands and feet, expressions and gestures, across a range of human and fantasy creatures.
There's far more to creating an accurate portrait than meets the eye. This visual guide teaches artists the basic shapes, planes, forms, and values of the head. It includes a map to follow as a model, a discussion of anatomy, suggestions for capturing profiles and angled views, advice on recognizing what makes a face individual, and more.
How can artists develop or apply their drawing skills to portray the figure as animate and made of muscle and bone, but without overpowering form with anatomical detail? This work guides readers through lessons designed to help artists draw the figure wit
This fantastic watercolour book contains practical answers and advice from the experts to all your questions about painting landscapes, people, buildings, and still life. Here you will find the reliable answers you need to build confidence and produce rewarding results.
Wendy Jelbert's many admirers will want to buy this concise round-up of her top tips for acrylic painting. The book covers all aspects of acrylic painting and shows a huge variety of techniques: oil style, watercolour style and a combination of the two, using additives and things such as plastic food wrap and bubble wrap to produce effects.
Features 12 of the popular alphabets - from Round Foundational Hand and Roman to Copperplate - each with step-by-step photographs of the strokes required to complete the letterforms. This book progresses with advanced techniques such as layout, spacing, design and how to display your work as well as experimental lettering and stencil spraying.
Intended for both amateur and professional artists, this book acts as a guide to mixing 25 popular Winsor & Newton Artist's oil colours. The 25 colours have been specially chosen as the most useful for a range of oil paintings, and the book shows how to match precisely any shade you want to reproduce in your work.
This easy to follow book will inspire readers to have a go at acrylic painting even if they had never had the confidence before. Terry's no nonsense approach to using the right brush for each task makes creating beautiful paintings achievable for artists of all skill levels.
As an introduction to calligraphy, the author, himself a past master of the art, supplies many different alphabets and shows how each may be applied by drawing, painting, carving or writing with a broad lettering pen. He also gives advice on materials that are most suitable.
Lets you discover how to create cartoons in a wide range of styles and media, from comic-book line art to digital manga. This title features more than 100 step-by-step sequences that demonstrate the skills you may need, from sketching basic body shapes using pencil and paint to computer rendering techniques.
Jenny Keal shares her passion for soft pastels. She covers the basics of painting such as colour theory and composition, then shows how to paint landscapes and flower studies in five beautiful step-by-step demonstrations. There are plenty of tips and inspirational paintings.
Offers over 100 top tips for painting in acrylics. This title covers topics ranging from what to buy and how to transfer images to using watercolour and oil techniques with acrylics, using additives such as texture paste or eggshells and sawdust, and painting skies, fields, foregrounds, trees, mountains, water, buildings and more.
Learn to paint like the masters in this inspiring series. In this title, Michael Sanders shows how to paint three of Cezanne's masterpieces in acrylics, and two further projects show how to paint in the style of Cezanne. Tracings are provided to eliminate the drawing stage.
Suitable for watercolour painters, this book offers you information you need to know, from the tools of the trade, choosing what to paint and avoiding and correcting mistakes, to how to paint skies, water, foliage and more. It presents and explains 85 easy to follow tips for watercolour painting, illustrated by many paintings.
In a handy pocket-sized book with 'lay flat' binding - painting secrets are revealed and top tips explored. Renowned artist Alwyn Crawshaw joins Search Press for the first time to share a lifetime of painting and teaching expertise through dozens of practical tips and detailed analysis of many beautiful paintings.
Flowers are indeed hard to ignore. They brighten our lives and our surroundings. This work shows how to paint scenes full of colour, mood and character, inspired by flowers growing naturally: along riverbanks, in woods, in the landscape and in parks and gardens.
Animal lovers can easily draw their favorite creatures. This work includes drawings of nine species on display, all showcasing the animal's most prominent features. Each demonstration begins with a photograph that provides the basis of the sketch, and also contains a worksheet and a few different breeds.
Provides aspiring hobbyists with an introduction to drawing. Packed with information from the basic principles of drawing to creating your own still lifes and even cartoons, this guide features a chapter which offers coverage ranging from sketching old photographs to converting distant memories into self-drawn souvenirs.
Fantasy is a magical medium, which can transport readers to a land and time that is only restricted by the imagination. Aimed at the beginner, this book goes back to basics and looks at the useful tools and materials required, as well as the vital techniques. It contains a series of tutorials on how to draw individual character elements.
Contains many step-by-step sequences that show how to capture the different architectural aspects of buildings, from tiled roof tops and windows adorned with flowers to ancient doors and rustic porches. This book helps you learn how to paint pictures of cottages, windmills, and barns. It provides tips on painting details such as doors and windows.
No other books on the market offer the opportunity to reproduce the Master's work without the need for great drawing skill. The step-by-step demonstrations explain in great detail how to copy Noel Gregory's expert painting style, so that even beginners will have the confidence to have a go.
Featuring a base palette of 25 popular artists' acrylic colours, this guide aims to show artists how to re-create what they see on their palette and on their work of art. It also shows how to match precisely any shade you want to reproduce in your work with only two colours in your mix and is intended for both amateur and professional artists.
Takes you through all the stages of painting landscapes with oils; from making and preparing your own canvases to producing beautiful, large-scale paintings. This book contains six step-by-step projects which explain how to paint various landscapes - including seas and beaches and trees and foliage.
Learning to paint using oils, acrylics and gouache requires training in specific painting skills. This title offers an introduction to these skills for beginners, and exercises and projects to challenge experienced artists. It demonstrates how to use different painting tools, mix, blend and dilute different paints, and how to prepare a canvas.
Offers beginners with the guidance they need to create their own fantasy worlds, inhabited by a range of weird and wonderful beings. This title contains advice on the tools and materials necessary. It explains and demonstrates the basic techniques. It also explores a variety of different basic dragon forms.
Offers a practical introduction to various aspects of drawing from beginners to intermediates. This title contains a guide to artist's materials and equipment you need, including monochrome and coloured pencils, charcoal, wax crayons, chalks, soft pastels, conte sticks, pen and ink, easels and the various types of drawing paper.
Shows how to reproduce three famous paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, using step by step photographs and instructions and by using acrylic paints. This book contains six tracings for readers to pull out and transfer on to the painting surface and a bonus tracing. It includes two projects that show how to paint in the Van Gogh's style.
Contains comprehensive advice on materials, canvases and equipment, and on using all the different types of media including pencil, charcoal, pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolour. Thsi title features a gallery of art with accompanying commentaries giving insight into how the artistic techniques have been used by professional artists.
A technique book on depicting skies, sunsets, clouds, coastal vistas, rainbows, lakes, waves, rock pools and waterfalls. This title includes advice on materials and equipment, and the different types of media, including pencils, charcoal, pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolours.
A beautiful and instructive guide on the technical aspects of drawing and painting portraits, illustrated with over 400 step-by-step photographs. Features a stunning gallery of art with accompanying commentaries giving insight into how the artistic techniques have been used by professional artists
A guide to painting skies in landscapes. Beginning with advice on sketching, using photographs, colour and mastering sky painting techniques, it demonstrates six paintings with remarkable skies. It is suitable for both beginners to watercolour and experienced painters.
Shows how to paint seas and skies using simple watercolour techniques. This work includes step-by-step photographs and explanations that show how to achieve the effects needed to paint the various elements of skies and seascapes. It also teaches how to create impressive paintings of crashing waves, a coastal footpath and a sunset over the sea.
In this beautiful book, Kevin McCloud of Channel 4's Grand Designs shows you how to master colour, how to use it in sophisticated ways and how to employ it to transform your surroundings. Featured are 65 tried-and-tested palettes are included, while every swatch is also matched to a commercially available paint. Informative, accessible, authoritative and inspiring, Kevin McCloud's Colour Now will enable you to unlock a world of colour.
Describes the basic principles of colour mixing and applying colour. This book presents a series of eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you oil painting techniques, such as colour blending, lifting out, working dark to light, glazing, and painting with a palette knife, all applied to subjects from still lifes to landscapes.
Offers information on what materials to buy, how to use sketches and photographs, how to look at landscape shapes and how to use tone and composition to good effect. This book demonstrates a variety of acrylic techniques and explains elements of the landscape such as foregrounds, distances and skies.
Renowned architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was also an accomplished watercolour painter, who produced beautiful studies of flowers. Here, Fiona Peart reproduces three of these flower paintings, and two of her own works, inspired by Mackintosh's very distinctive style. Tracings are provided to eliminate the drawing stage.
Containing over 150 photographs, this book shows you how to create a variety of paintings - including landscapes, portraits and still lifes - in less than a day. Through a number of step-by-step examples, it demonstrates the versatility of oil painting.
A teach-yourself practical guide to drawing cartoons on your computer, suitable for beginners as well as more experienced artists. It introduces various essential computer software and equipment, such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Painter and the animation programs Flash and ImageReady. It explains Vector drawing and bitmap painting techniques.
Presents a series of eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you watercolour techniques, such as laying flat and graduated washes, working wet-in-wet and wet-in-dry, masking out, lifting off, and sponging, all applied to subjects from still lifes to landscapes, and from buildings to woodland.