Random House New Releases - Art - Reference

Contemporary Drawing by Margaret Davidson

2013-11-27T00:30:00-05:00

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and Techniques
Written by Margaret Davidson

eBook | Watson-Guptill | Art - Drawing; Art - Reference; Art - Conceptual | $18.99 | 978-0-8230-2718-7 (0-8230-2718-X)

Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age.

Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist.

Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing’s problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another.

Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art.

From the Hardcover edition.

Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

2013-07-03T00:30:00-05:00

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond
Written by Margaret Shepherd

eBook, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Calligraphy; Art - Reference; Crafts & Hobbies | $12.99 | 978-0-8230-8230-8 (0-8230-8230-X)

Learn World Calligraphy has something for everyone. Whether you want scholarly insight, artistic inspiration, classroom projects, or a theme for your next party, this comprehensive, unparalleled full-color book will guide you on a virtual trip around the globe. Covering nearly all of the world’s writing systems—from African to Arabic, Chinese to Greek, Hebrew to Russian, and beyond—Learn World Calligraphy offers a unique glimpse of scripts worldwide and the calligraphers who write them.

Lushly illustrated with gorgeous examples of both historical and modern calligraphic designs, this book is filled with practical instruction for how key aspects of each exotic script can be applied to the English alphabet, generating calligraphic hybrids with a distinctly foreign flair. Like a new cuisine that you can’t wait to cook at home, the scripts you meet in this book are sure to infuse your own calligraphy with the flavor of abroad. Bon voyage!

Storyboarding Essentials by Benjamin Reid Phillips

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)
Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Art - Reference; Art - Film & Video | $24.99 | 978-0-7704-3694-0 (0-7704-3694-3)

A comprehensive guide to visual storytelling from Savannah College of Art and Desgin, one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. Storyboarding is the process of graphically organizing a project--a motion picture, animation, motion graphic, or interactive media sequence--in order to translate artists' ideas from story to screen. Whether you're a filmmaker, animator, ad director, writer, or video-game artist--storyboarding is a skill that is absolutely critical. Storyboarding Essentials covers everything students and working professionals need to master the art of writing and formatting scripts, creating frames, and following visual logic to create a cohesive narrative.

Storyboarding Essentials by Benjamin Reid Phillips

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)
Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

eBook, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Art - Reference; Art - Film & Video | $15.99 | 978-0-385-34559-0 (0-385-34559-3)

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals by J.C. Amberlyn

2012-11-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets
Written by J.C. Amberlyn

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Drawing; Art - Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals; Art - Reference | $24.99 | 978-0-8230-1423-1 (0-8230-1423-1)

Create Classic Portraits of Favorite Pets
The Artist’s Guide to Drawing Animals continues the rich tradition of animals in art. In this step-by-step guide to rendering your favorite animals in pencil and pen-and-ink, J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of pets and other familiar domestic creatures with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. Covering a variety of animals from beloved pets like dogs and cats to barnyard critters like cows and sheep and many more, the book covers every species with easy-to-follow instructions for drawing them from every angle imaginable. Along with seven featured examinations of Amberlyn’s artistic process, each chapter showcases the tools and techniques needed to produce your own highly detailed, lifelike drawings of a variety of well-known animal companions. The worlds of artists and animal lovers come together in this richly illustrated, in-depth guide to producing charming portraits of some of the most popular pets and domesticated creatures.

Also available as an eBook

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals by J.C. Amberlyn

2012-11-20T00:30:00-05:00

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets
Written by J.C. Amberlyn

eBook, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Drawing; Art - Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals; Art - Reference | $16.99 | 978-0-8230-1424-8 (0-8230-1424-X)

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art by Chris Solarski

2012-09-18T00:30:00-05:00

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Written by Chris Solarski

eBook, 240 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Games - Video & Electronic; Art - Reference | $15.99 | 978-0-8230-9848-4 (0-8230-9848-6)

"This book supports my own 30-year crusade to demonstrate that games are an art form that undeniably rivals traditional arts. It gives detailed explanations of game art techniques and their importance, while also highlighting their dependence on artistic aspects of game design and programming.”

— John Romero, co-founder of id Software and CEO of Loot Drop, Inc.

"Solarski’s methodology here is to show us the artistic techniques that every artist should know, and then he transposes them to the realm of video games to show how they should be used to create a far more artful gaming experience ... if I were an artist planning to do video game work, I’d have a copy of this on my shelf."

— Marc Mason, Comics Waiting Room

Video games are not a revolution in art history, but an evolution. Whether the medium is paper or canvas—or a computer screen—the artist’s challenge is to make something without depth seem like a window into a living, breathing world. Video game art is no different.

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is first to examine the connections between classical art and video games, enabling developers to create more expressive and varied emotional experiences in games. Artist game designer Chris Solarski gives readers a comprehensive introduction to basic and advanced drawing and design skills—light, value, color, anatomy, concept development—as well as detailed instruction for using these methods to design complex characters, worlds, and gameplay experiences. Artwork by the likes of Michelangelo, Titian, and Rubens are studied alongside AAA games like BioShock, Journey, the Mario series, and Portal 2, to demonstrate perpetual theories of depth, composition, movement, artistic anatomy, and expression.

Although Drawing Basics and Video Game Art is primarily a practical reference for artists and designers working in the video games industry, it’s equally accessible for those interested to learn about gaming’s future, and potential as an artistic medium.

Also available as an eBook

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art by Chris Solarski

2012-09-18T00:30:00-05:00

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Written by Chris Solarski

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Games - Video & Electronic; Art - Reference | $24.99 | 978-0-8230-9847-7 (0-8230-9847-8)

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression by Gary Faigin

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
Written by Gary Faigin

eBook, 288 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Art - Reference | $16.99 | 978-0-307-78646-3 (0-307-78646-3)

Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. Each emotion is shown in steadily increasing intensity, and Faigin’s detailed renderings are supplemented by clear explanatory text, additional sketches, and finished work. An appendix includes yawning, wincing, and other physical reactions. Want to create portraits that capture the real person? Want to draw convincing illustrations? Want to show the range of human emotion in your artwork? Get The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression!

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

2011-08-23T00:30:00-05:00

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond
Written by Margaret Shepherd

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Calligraphy; Art - Reference; Crafts & Hobbies | $24.99 | 978-0-8230-3346-1 (0-8230-3346-5)

Contemporary Drawing by Margaret Davidson

2011-04-19T00:30:00-05:00

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and Techniques
Written by Margaret Davidson

Hardcover, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Drawing; Art - Reference; Art - Conceptual | $35.00 | 978-0-8230-3315-7 (0-8230-3315-5)

Art Theory For Beginners by Natalie Turner

2009-09-08T00:30:00-05:00

Art Theory For Beginners
Written by Richard Osborne and Dan Sturgis
Illustrated by Natalie Turner

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | For Beginners | Art - Reference | $16.99 | 978-1-934389-47-8 (1-934389-47-1)

From Paleolithic cave-painting to postmodernism, Art Theory For Beginners is a concise and entertaining survey of the major historical and current debates on art. Painters, theorists and philosophers are all included to show how the idea of art has developed over the last 5,000 years.
Art is a visual representation of a range of concepts, stories and emotions, including curiosity, humanity, political statements, and the Self. Art Theory For Beginners examines and explains the development of the different ways in which people study, interpret and appreciate art in its rich variety of forms.

Art Theory For Beginners is a clear and entertaining introduction to the complex questions that stem from the simple idea of 'art'.

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression by Gary Faigin

2008-08-19T00:30:00-05:00

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
Written by Gary Faigin

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Techniques; Art - Reference | $24.95 | 978-0-8230-0432-4 (0-8230-0432-5)

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens by Mark Simon

2008-06-10T00:30:00-05:00

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon

Trade Paperback, 256 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Reference | $21.95 | 978-0-8230-9615-2 (0-8230-9615-7)

Babies are so unpredictable. You put them down in one place, you never know if they’ll be there when you come back. And don’t even get us started on kids and teens. Artists have it particularly rough with volatile young people, because their facial expressions are just as fleeting. Happy one minute, sad the next. Puzzled for a second, then astounded. Facial Expressions Babies to Teens solves the artists’ problems with a dazzling array of more than 2,500 photographs of fifty babies, kids, and teens demonstrating every human emotion through facial expression. Artists, animators, cartoonists - everyone who needs to capture any look from babyhood to age 19 must have a copy of this fascinating reference. With extra sections on anatomy, hats, and close-ups of phonemes, plus a remarkable age-progression gallery, Facial Expressions Babies to Teens is the only book an artist can really depend on. And we promise it will stay right where you put it, every time.

The Nude Female Figure by Mark Edward Smith

2007-10-02T00:30:00-05:00

The Nude Female Figure A Visual Reference for the Artist
Written by Mark Edward Smith

Trade Paperback, 208 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Reference | $29.95 | 978-0-8230-9991-7 (0-8230-9991-1)

More than two hundred full-color photos of women in motion and at rest

Standing. Seated. Reclining. Kneeling. Bending. Crouching. Running. World-renowned photographer
Mark Edward Smith has captured women of every age and form in every type of movement, then gathered his striking, unusual images into The Nude Female Figure. An indispensable reference for
artists who have limited access to live figure models,
this remarkable book features striking images
of shapely young women as well as elegiac photos of
more mature women. The models in these full-color
pictures include women of every type—slender
women, not-so-slender women, pregnant women,
and women of color. A special section shows closeups
of the hands and feet. Each pose is beautiful, and
the unparalleled attention to composition, lighting,
and reproduction make it easy for artists to see the
relationships between the parts of the body and to
study the classic female figure.

• A must-have reference for all artists

• Beautiful composition and lighting by a
world-renowned photographer and
best-selling author—125,000 books sold

• All in color for the first time—at same great
price as The Nude Figure

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners by Joe Lee

2007-08-21T00:30:00-05:00

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners
Written by Elsa Bethanis and Peter Bethanis
Illustrated by Joe Lee

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | For Beginners | Art - Reference; Art - History - Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945) | $14.95 | 978-1-934389-00-3 (1-934389-00-5)

What kind of artists put a moustache on the Mona Lisa? Enter a urinal in an art competition? Declare their own independent republic? Hijack a ship? Dadas!
And what happens to such a movement? With Dada, many of the artists declared their own "Pope" and continued their journey (with no destination) into Surrealism, creating burning giraffes, "amoebic" dogs, and lobster telephones–some of the most imaginative and intense works of art of the 20th century. In Dada and Surrealism For Beginners, you'll get a colorful overview of these two movements, and develop a sense of the turbulent, wild, and unapologetically mad mood and tone of the Dada and Surrealist movements. Whether you're an artist, would-be artist, or someone seeking the marvelous, you'll find the courage and originality of the movements inspiring, and you'll gain an understanding of their long-term (and current) influences on contemporary art and culture – everything from performance art to pop art to the abandoned train ticket you find in the street.

100 Creative Drawing Ideas by Anna Held Audette

2004-03-02T00:30:00-05:00

100 Creative Drawing Ideas
Written by Anna Held Audette

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Shambhala | Art - Study & Teaching; Art - Reference; Self Help - Creativity | $22.95 | 978-1-59030-105-0 (1-59030-105-6)

What art student doesn't groan at the hackneyed problems too often assigned in art classes, such as a still life and chianti bottles, old chairs, and large cloths draped over the whole scene? Here, in the first book ever of its kind, is a collection of interesting and original ideas for drawing projects, contributed by art instructors from all over the United States (and a few from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia) who have invented successful alternatives to humdrum exercises. The accompanying illustrations demonstrate ways in which their students have addressed the assignments and are included to help the reader visualize what might result from the written description. This book will be a welcome resource for art teachers and students in high school, college, graduate programs, and art schools, as well as artists undertaking independent study.

Among the 100 drawing ideas are:

   • Drawing with a piece of charcoal held between the toes—to explore how limitations often bring out great creativity.
   • Adopting a mouse's-eye view of a still life—an unusual twist on perspective drawing.
   • Making a self-portrait that does not show the head but tells something significant about the artist through the depiction of other parts of the body—an original way of investigating "Who am I?"
   • Constructing a figure from assembled objects and then drawing it—for those times when a live human model is unavailable.
   • Creating a personal visual representation of the blues musical genre—to discover how one art form engenders another.

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body by George Elder, Ph.D.

1996-10-15T00:30:00-05:00

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body
Written by George Elder, Ph.D.

Hardcover | Shambhala | Art - Reference; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Art - Subjects & Themes - Human Figure | $125.00 | 978-1-57062-096-6 (1-57062-096-2)

The first volume of An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism was a stunning collection of color images and text organized around mythic themes that follow the solar calendar from cosmos and creation to death, transformation, and rebirth. In this second volume, the focus is the human body as a carrier of deep psychological insights and sacred meanings.

Whether idolized or abused, the body is the object of much fascinated attention, even obsessive preoccupation, in the contemporary Western world. What has been missing from our culture's preoccupation is an appreciation of the body's organs as symbols of the deepest contents of the human psyche. This book surveys the richness of meaning found in a wide range of beautiful sacred images from the world's traditions and explains what the symbolism of our physical form teaches us about the inner realities of our consciousness, spirit, and divine essence.

Random House New Releases - Art - Reference

Contemporary Drawing by Margaret Davidson

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and TechniquesWritten by Margaret Davidson

Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and BeyondWritten by Margaret Shepherd

Storyboarding Essentials by Benjamin Reid Phillips

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

Storyboarding Essentials by Benjamin Reid Phillips

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals by J.C. Amberlyn

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite PetsWritten by J.C. Amberlyn

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals by J.C. Amberlyn

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite PetsWritten by J.C. Amberlyn

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art by Chris Solarski

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game DesignWritten by Chris Solarski

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art by Chris Solarski

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game DesignWritten by Chris Solarski

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression by Gary Faigin

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression Written by Gary Faigin

Learn World Calligraphy by Margaret Shepherd

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and BeyondWritten by Margaret Shepherd

Contemporary Drawing by Margaret Davidson

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and TechniquesWritten by Margaret Davidson

Art Theory For Beginners by Natalie Turner

Art Theory For Beginners Written by Richard Osborne and Dan Sturgis Illustrated by Natalie Turner

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression by Gary Faigin

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression Written by Gary Faigin

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens by Mark Simon

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens A Visual Reference for ArtistsWritten by Mark Simon

The Nude Female Figure by Mark Edward Smith

The Nude Female Figure A Visual Reference for the ArtistWritten by Mark Edward Smith

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners by Joe Lee

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners Written by Elsa Bethanis and Peter Bethanis Illustrated by Joe Lee

100 Creative Drawing Ideas by Anna Held Audette

100 Creative Drawing Ideas Written by Anna Held Audette

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body by George Elder, Ph.D.

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body Written by George Elder, Ph.D.

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and Techniques
Written by Margaret Davidson

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond
Written by Margaret Shepherd

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)
Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

Storyboarding Essentials SCAD Creative Essentials (How to Translate Your Story to the Screen for Film, TV, and Other Media)
Written by David Harland Rousseau and Benjamin Reid Phillips

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets
Written by J.C. Amberlyn

The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets
Written by J.C. Amberlyn

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Written by Chris Solarski

Drawing Basics and Video Game Art Classic to Cutting-Edge Art Techniques for Winning Video Game Design
Written by Chris Solarski

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
Written by Gary Faigin

Learn World Calligraphy Discover African, Arabic, Chinese, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian, Thai, Tibetan Calligraphy, and Beyond
Written by Margaret Shepherd

Contemporary Drawing Key Concepts and Techniques
Written by Margaret Davidson

Art Theory For Beginners
Written by Richard Osborne and Dan Sturgis
Illustrated by Natalie Turner

The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression
Written by Gary Faigin

Facial Expressions Babies to Teens A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon

The Nude Female Figure A Visual Reference for the Artist
Written by Mark Edward Smith

Dada and Surrealism For Beginners
Written by Elsa Bethanis and Peter Bethanis
Illustrated by Joe Lee

100 Creative Drawing Ideas
Written by Anna Held Audette

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body
Written by George Elder, Ph.D.