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.

Drawing - The Process is a collection of papers, theories and interviews based on the conference and exhibition of the same name held at Kingston University. A wide range of approaches, both practical and theoretical, and their varied contexts within the field of drawing, are re-examined and in many cases introduced as totally new methodology to the reader.

To be able to see and enjoy what you are seeing is much to be grateful for. But even more, being able to reproduce and convey to others, by drawing, what you see or imagine provides greater satisfaction. As in all my books, my purpose and pleasure are to show others, like yourself, a way to construct drawings.

This world is full of glorious things to see. I think you’ll agree that the flowers, fruits, trees, and the rest of the subject matter here are testament to our beautiful world. In my earlier books, living subjects were all chosen from the animal kingdom.

The Besthvy of Ktynn is a resource for games set in the world of Dragonlance. It is a collection of creatures, ranging from the terrif5ring fire dragons of Chaos to the tiny, dagger-like feeders. Contained within these pages are a mix of foes both old and new, challenges for adventuring parties of any level. Each entry has descriptions and game statistics useflil for those who plan adventures carefully as well as those who prefer to think on their feet. All game information is compatible with the revised edition of the d20 System me.

Chiunque puô imparare ad esprimersi attraverso ii disegno, dal bambino di ogni eta all’adulto, per puro divertimento o per dare slogo a sentimenti o emozioni. Bastano pochi e semplici strumenti: una matita, del carboncino, inchiostro e pastelli. Questo libro vi aiuterà ad avere i primi approcci col mondo del disegno e ad acquisire in modo semplice le tecniche di base.

From author: “The film “Endangered Species” was created especially so this book could be  written. It may seem a quite extraordinary statement for an author to make - that they created an entire film simply to write a book - yet this is basically what I have done. Without the film, this book could never have been written. But then again, without an amazing, magical, diversely enchanting world of animation which has existed for almost 100 years now, the film could never have been made in the first place!”

The Guideways through Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) is a unique and enduring record of a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese about their world, encompassing religion, mythology, geography, flora, fauna, minerals, and medicine. An encyclopedic cosmography mostly compiled from the Warring States period to the Western Han dynasty (c.4^th -c. 1st cent. B.C.E.), it has been repeatedly hand-copied, reprinted, and re-edited through the centuries into our own time... Since the nineteenth century, it has also attracted the attention of foreign scholars and in recent years has been translated into at least five different languages...