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.

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.