Life Drawing

Author: Bridget Woods
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847976689
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
Life drawing is a passionate and rewarding pursuit, which inspires a wide range of styles from photographic to abstract. This practical book, packed with images and enjoyable exercises, is designed for the beginner or untutored group and the more experienced artist or teacher. It encoruages students to overcome their fears and expand their mark-making vocabulary. Covers: how to achieve accurate proportions; using line and tone; an awareness of body structure; experimenting with different tools, marks and textures; developing a personal style. Both a troubleshooting handbook and reference work, Life Drawing celebrates the individuality of the artist and the model, and is essential reading for anyone drawing the human figure.

Expressive Figure Drawing

Author: Bill Buchman
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823033147
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates more than 30 essential exercises, empowering you to draw the figure dramatically and with confidence, no matter your current level of skill. Filled with step-by-step demonstrations, inspiring images, and insightful text revealing a wide range of techniques and concepts, this book presents new ways to think about the figure and use your materials to free the artist within.

Visual Research Methods in Fashion

Author: Julia Gaimster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474263798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that research. Visual Research Methods in Fashion provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration to master their visual research skills and make the research that they undertake more effective. Illustrated with real-life examples from practitioners in the industry, academics and students, it focuses on the global nature of the industry and the need to develop ideas relevant to the market.

The Artist's Journey

Author: Nancy Hillis
Publisher: Artist's Journey Press
ISBN: 9780999750438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
If you yearn to say yes to your deepest expression in your art and life, this self-help book is for you. Dr. Hillis guides you past resistance on your artist's journey so you can finally trust yourself, develop confidence and cultivate deep exploration and experimentation in your art. Bonus resource library with videos lessons and book club guide.

Painting Expressive Watercolour

Author: Bridget Woods
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977510
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 457

Book Description
Watercolour offers great potential for expression. Its fluidity, full colour range, generous spread and variety of marks can portray a likeness, a response, a feeling - even the notions of time and speed. This book is a practical guide to watercolour painting and more. It explains the importance of colour, tone, shape, texture and scale through exercises and shared techniques, but it also encourages the artist to express sensations and ideas in watercolour - and by exploring the joy of the medium, to develop handling skills, confidence and a unique painting 'voice'. Includes: getting started; materials, fundamentals and mark-making; ideas to trigger the imagination for developing personal style; a variety of images to inspire and encourage; and help and advice throughout to practice new skills and gain confidence with a medium that has the potential magnificence of a 'full orchestra', yet can be slipped into the pocket. Lavishly illustrated with 259 colour photographs.

Drawing Hands and Feet

Author: Šárka Darton
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 0719844436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
This practical and inspiring book explains how to draw realistic hands and feet. With a focus on the importance of practice and observation, it looks first at fundamental anatomy and external structures before explaining how to simplify form and develop your own artistic style. With over 300 images, this book is a detailed and impressive guide for all artists keen to master these key subjects.

Painting the Nude in Oils

Author: Adele Wagstaff
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847979068
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
The nude has inspired artists for centuries and continues to inspire us today. Alongside a historical study of the nude in painting, this book introduces oil paint and gives advice on techniques when using this challenging and rewarding medium. Capturing the beauty of form and the delicate colours of the figure, it celebrates the powerful images that examine human relationships, personality and psychology. The topics included are instructions on materials, the colour palette and stretching your own canvas; the practicalities of working with a model in the studio; colour-mixing exercises that explore colour relationships and temperature, and finally step-by-step examples that demonstrate the progression of a painting. This beautiful and essential guide to painting the nude in oils is aimed at oil painters including beginners, more experienced, untutored groups, individual artists and art historians and is beautifully illustrated with 152 colour images.

Figure Drawing for Artists

Author: Steve Huston
Publisher:
ISBN: 1631590650
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Learn to draw the human figure with a two-step approach used by the biggest animation studios in the business with Figure Drawing for Artists.

Complete Guide to Life Drawing

Author: Gottfried Bammes
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1844486907
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A complete course, packed with instruction and profusely illustrated. This fantastic book is all you need if you want to start drawing the figure, or if you want to develop your life drawing skills. It is the ultimate reference book, a most inspirational guide and above all it offers everything you ever needed to know, including tips on simple ways to get it right, essential advice on anatomy, help with easy drawing methods and many different examples of the drawn figure. It is important to understand how the body works and detailed sections show hands, feet, faces, limbs and much more.

Ish

Author: Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763667889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Features an audio read-along! A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot. Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere. Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree sketches into joyless struggles. Luckily for Ramon, though, his little sister, Marisol, sees the world differently. She opens his eyes to something a lot more valuable than getting things just "right." Combining the spareness of fable with the potency of parable, Peter Reynolds shines a bright beam of light on the need to kindle and tend our creative flames with care.