"Drawing Calm teaches artists and non artists how to use the work of master painters in order to inspire your own masterpiece"--

Modern Drawing isn't a dry instruction manual; it's a contemporary guide filled with instruction, encouragement, and loads of helpful tips. Learn how to use basic drawing principles and techniques to create fresh, expressive pieces of art. With Modern Drawing, you'll enjoy a dynamic, easy-to-follow exploration of drawing media and tools as you work through creative exercises and projects. You'll also learn how to "see" a subject and render a personal...

Offers practical guidance to aspiring illustrators, including effective ways to approach would-be clients, how to negotiate contracts, and how to set up a studio.

New in Paperback! The Best of Business Card Design 7 features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide.

Ewing guides aspiring artists through a series of simple, creative projects using a soulful, meditative, and reflective process. Drawing inspiration from poetry, music, literature, and the natural world, she invites experimentation with a variety of sources. Whether you're picking up a paintbrush for the first time or you're an experienced artist, you'll deepen your creative potential through these exercises. -- adapted from back cover

There has never been a better time to master textures! Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the most challenging aspects of creating art in coloured pencil, even for experienced artists. 101 Textures in Colored Pencil provides artists with step-by-step instructions for drawing a wide variety of the most common textures and surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more....

"Quick sketching is the best technique you can use to stay finely tuned and to keep those creative juices flowing. To keep your sense of observation heightened, and to sharpen your hand-eye coordination, an animator needs to constantly draw and sketch. Quick Sketching with Ron Husband offers instruction to quick sketching and all its techniques. From observing positive and negative space and learning to recognize simple shapes in complex forms to...

Learn to draw from a collection of works from famous artists such as Norman Rockwell and Albert Dorne with Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School.

"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns...

For laymen and professionals alike, this book offers a refreshing, simple approach to the graphic depiction of three-dimensionality.