It is no so long ago  that books on airbrushing were practical unobtainable simply because publishers did not think there was an adequate demand. However, the continued and increasing need for highly finished, quality illustrations in every area of graphic design has brought an awareness of airbrushing to a wider audience, even though the techniques themselves may still be elusive to many.

This book is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you’ll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided into two sections that detail techniques for working with both round and flat brushes in acrylics.

This workbook is designed to give you the necessary basic knowledge to start on the path toward becoming an animator. But it is only your commitment and effort that will prove, in the long run, whether or not you are capable of becoming a great one. To be a great animator is to lead a life of concentration, observation, dedication, and inspiration as well as many long hours of perspiration.

From author: “I want this book to put over what I have found to be the best working methods, so that animating becomes better and easier to do. There are lots of formulas, principles, clichés and devices here to help, but the main thing I want to pass on is a way of thinking about animation in order to free the mind to do the best work possible”.

In this book, Charles Reid guides the reader through a complete, step-by-step tour of the watercolor materials and methods needed to create expressive, masterful portraits. He begins with the basics, including which paints to use: how to choose your brushes; which papers are best for sketching; and how to set up and position your drawing board. Reid then presents 25 informative, beautifully illustrated demonstrations that incorporate such techniques as mixing washes and over-washes, wet-in-wet, dry brush, lifting out, and using more than one value.

An understanding of perspective is mandatory for all students and professionals involved with representational drawing. This includes a wide variety of fields, such as: Illustration, Interior Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Engineering Design, Scenic Design and even Fine Arts. While each of these areas applies perspective techniques for different purposes and to varying degrees of thoroughness, artists in all of them must be knowledgeable and experienced in basic perspective fundamentals and principles.

An introduction to Japanese painting (including Sumi-e), both of which are distinctive and very beautiful styles of brush painting.

From author: “Whenever June and I are preparing to go on a painting trip, I am filled with a wonderful feeling of anticipation as check and recheck my painting equipment, making sure I have everything I need. Discovering new ways of packing important items, or remembering useful additions at the very last minute, only adds to my excitement, as does the thought of where we are going and what we are going to paint there”.

This classic of art instruction is the work of James Harding (1798 - 1863), who served as drawing master and sketching companion to the great Victorian art critic, John Ruskin. Generations of students have benefited from the teachings of this nineteenth-century master, who sought always to “produce as near a likeness to Nature, in every respect, as the instrument, or material employed, will admit of; not so much by bona fide imitation, as by reviving in the mind those ideas which are awakened by a contemplation of Nature.. . The renewal of those feelings constitutes the true purpose of Art.”

“We have learned from the great thinkers of ancient and modern times that our perceptions and all our standards of beauty are derived from the understanding of the human body. . . . Eliot Goldfinger’s massive and thorough study of this vital subject, describing the volumes and rhythms in precise and intimate detail, will help every reader to better understand the volumes and rhythms of this, our most precious possession”.