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...

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.

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.

Dieses Buch führt Sie in die Kunst des Bodypointing em und bietet zohlreiche fontosievolle Anregungen für die Bemalung von Gesicht und Kórper. In elnem ousführlichen Kapitel zu Moterialien und Schminktechniken wird cues Wissenswerte onschaulich und leicht nochvoll’ ziehbar vermittelt. Der Höhepunkt des Buches sind die etwa 50 kunstvollen nKompositionen auf Haute. Neben Motiven aus bekannten Musicals stehen Märchen- und faritostische Figuren sowie Gestalten, die uns ouch im toglichen Leben begegnen. Nur mit Hilfe von Schminkfarbe und etwas Glimmer kreiert Matthias von Matuschka sowohi üppig qestoltete, dekorative Motive als ouch skurrile und witzige Figuren.

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...

In this section you are introduced to the basic techniques of watercolour painting. At this stage you will be carefully guided along the way, while you become familiar with your materials. The essential groundwork is covered here, including such topics as application of paint, mixing colours, using tone to maximum effect, and building up a painting gradually. The importance of keeping your painting methods simple is stressed and you are also shown compositional techniques which, if applied as demonstrated, will add power and appeal to your work.