The trend in comics today is toward more extreme figures whose muscles are bigger and more defined than ever. While this creates powerful, exciting comic book characters, it can present a problem for the artist, who needs to become more familiar with stylized, cutting-edge anatomy.

If there’s one thing above everything else that comic book artists must know, it’s how to draw the human figure. Therefore, many comic book artists stock up on anatomy books but are often disappointed with their purchases.

Disney princesses can be found in a fairy-tale castle, an enchanted wood, a French countryside, a desert kingdom even under the sea! Although their stories may be similar overcoming problems to reach “happily ever after” each princess brings something years, that “something special” has changed, shine in each princess have always remained special to her tale. Over the but the beauty and love that the same.

Stan Lee, the Mighty Man from Marvel, and .John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind the Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, the Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto mysterious methods of comic art. Stan Lee’s pithy prose gives able assistance and advice to the apprentice artist.

What you’ll learn from this book:

- A step-by-step process for rendering seascapes and landscapes in oil, from simple sketches to elaborate scenery

- What materials you will need, and how to take advantage of premixed paints and turpentine washes

- Tips for using color effectively, with specific color combinations and a variety of palette spectrums

This book will enlighten you on how to see and explore the power of force through drawing. You will draw with thought and opinions that will strengthen your originality and decisiveness. This will also develop your awareness of the stories our bodies communicate, through the actions we perform.

This book is essentially a study of the problems and solutions related to drawing the clothed human figure. 1 propose to deal with the integral facts, details, and systems of wrinkles and drapery as influenced by the movement and activity of the human form.

One of the ironies of art education is that while a great deal of attention is given to drawing and painting the figure, figure in this context refers only to the nude or unclothed form...

Drawing the Human Head concludes with a selection of great heads in sculpture, painting, drawing, and the graphic arts, from the time of the Greeks to the art of our own century. The purpose of this gallery is to document the principles of head construction upon which this book is based.

The reader will discover a remarkable continuity from the work of anonymous Greek and Roman sculptors, through the great artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, down to such contemporary masters as Picasso and Rouault.

How fortunate it is for the human race that every man, woman and child is tagged with an individual and identifiable face! If all faces were identical, like the labels on a brand  of tomatoes, we would be living in a very mixed-up world. When we think of it, life is mainly a continuous flow of experiences and contacts with people, different people...

You won’t believe the incredible drawings you can create using common pencils and the special techniques illustrated in this book. These methods are so easy that anyone - from doodler to advanced artist - can master them in minutes! Step by step, you’ll learn how to capture the look of metal, glass. weathered wood, skin, hair and other textures. Two detailed start-to-finish demonstrations show you how to use these textures to create drawings that look so real they seem to leap right off the page!

A portrait is commonly perceived as the representation of a human being’s features, whether the face, head and shoulders or the whole body. It has always been an important theme in figurative arts and a favourite with artists, who have found in it, not just a professional genre well rewarded and socially appreciated for its symbolic or celebratory value, but also an interesting opportunity to investigate the human condition in its physical and, most of all, psychological aspect.