Whoosh! 250 Ways to Get Motion Into Your Drawings

Author: Carlos Gomes Cabral
Publisher: B.E.S.
ISBN: 9781438007243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The best cartoonists jam-pack their work with action that moves the story along. So how do you capture this kind of motion in your work? Whoosh 250 Ways to Get Motion into Your Drawings can help. Cartoonist and illustrator Carlos Gomes Cabral shares his tips and tricks to help you create attention-grabbing drawings that practically leap off the pages. It's all in the details: sometimes simplicity, rhythm, the position of a shadow, the use of a speed line, or even an exaggerated expression can make all the difference. Cabral walks you step-by-step through 250 fantastic techniques, including: The importance of a good silhouette Using lines of action to help create character's gestures How to use basic shapes to suggest movement The best positions to increase drama in a scene How to tell a compelling narrative with art alone And if all that isn't enough, ten great artists share their trademark secrets for bringing their own drawings to life Whether you work digitally on a computer or at a drawing table with a good old-fashioned pencil, this book will help you develop the skills you need to create movement and drama--and take your dynamic drawing skills to a whole new level.

Draw Action

Author: Carlos Gomes Cabral
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782213888
Category : Action in art
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Cartoonist and illustrator Carlos Gomes Cabral shares his toolkit of 300 tips and tricks to get movement into your drawings. Focusing on simplicity, rhythm and line of action he covers everything from action comics and pencil drawing to video games and digital art, and applies these and other tips to dozens of different subjects, showing you how you can bring your art to life.

An Illustrated Journey

Author: Danny Gregory
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144032025X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Collects excerpts from the personal travel journal sketchbooks of forty-three artists, illustrators, and designers.

Celtic Art

Author: George Bain
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317447
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
This unique volume clearly demonstrates simple geometric techniques for making intricate knots, interlacements, spirals, Kellstype initials, human and animal figures in distinctive Celtic style. Features over 500 illustrations.

Draw With Jazza - Creating Characters

Author: Josiah Brooks
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440344949
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
Imagine, Design and Draw Your Own Characters! Draw With Jazza YouTube star Josiah Brooks breaks down an easy-to-follow method that will help you to invent and draw original characters time and time again. Whether sci-fi or steampunk, comic book heroines or tattooed action heroes, animal familiars or alien races, you will discover the limitless possibilities of creating your very own characters for comic books, cartoons, video games and more! No matter what your skill level, you can draw from concept to finished art with confidence. Jazza shows you how as he walks you through The Design Process! • Discover. Learn techniques just like the pros use for developing characters--their backstory, personality and physicality; decide your drawing style; and explore and organize your inspiration. • Design. Use brainstorm sketching to refine your character's persona. Use simplified lines and shapes to draw men and women, practice poses and play with body shapes, sizes, ages and outfits. • Develop. Refine your best ideas by choosing features, color schemes, settings and context to reflect your end goal. • Deliver. Finish your concept art with character turnarounds, expression sheets, pose variations and more to create a complete picture of your characters and their world.

Chinese Brush Painted Flowers

Author: Joan Lok
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782211013
Category : Flowers in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Many Chinese brush-painting instruction books only focus on painting a few species of flowers, such as lotus, peony, and plum blossom, because these flowers symbolise various ideals in the Chinese culture. This book introduces painters to a variety of brushwork and floral painting techniques, and shows how to apply them to a diverse collection of flowers.

Still Alice

Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439116881
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. A first novel. Simultaneous.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393355683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets—and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman’s life shines through in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah. Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.

The Art Direction Handbook for Film

Author: Michael Rizzo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1136068694
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Whether you'd like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, constructing scenery, and surviving production. You will not only learn how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure future jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, along with interviews with prominent art directors, relevant real-life anecdotes, and blueprints, sketches, photographs, and stills from Hollywood sets.

The Only Road

Author: Alexandra Diaz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481457527
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
PURA BELPRÉ HONOR BOOK ALA NOTABLE BOOK “An important, must-have addition to the growing body of literature with immigrant themes.” —School Library Journal (starred review) Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous and life-changing journey from his home in Guatemala to live with his older brother in the United States in this “powerful and timely” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel. Jaime is sitting on his bed drawing when he hears a scream. Instantly, he knows: Miguel, his cousin and best friend, is dead. Everyone in Jaime’s small town in Guatemala knows someone who has been killed by the Alphas, a powerful gang that’s known for violence and drug trafficking. Anyone who refuses to work for them is hurt or killed—like Miguel. With Miguel gone, Jaime fears that he is next. There’s only one choice: accompanied by his cousin Ángela, Jaime must flee his home to live with his older brother in New Mexico. Inspired by true events, The Only Road is an individual story of a boy who feels that leaving his home and risking everything is his only chance for a better life. The story is “told with heartbreaking honesty,” Booklist raved, and “will bring readers face to face with the harsh realities immigrants go through in the hope of finding a better, safer life, and it will likely cause them to reflect on what it means to be human.”