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The World in Vogue
People, Parties, Places
Edited by Hamish Bowles and Alexandra Kotur

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $75.00

This one-of-a-kind book of 300 photographs of some of the most celebrated actors, artists, models, First Ladies, and social figures draws on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue over the past four decades, as well as photographs from those stories that have never been published. These trendsetters and... Read more >

Draw 50 Animals

Written by Lee J. Ames

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 12, 1985
Price: $8.95

Fifty furry, scaly and feathered friends are here for aspiring young artists to draw. Read more >

Manga for the Beginner
Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away!
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $21.95

Got manga? Christopher Hart’s got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers—especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to draw the basic... Read more >

The Draw 50 Way
How to Draw Cats, Puppies, Horses, Buildings, Birds, Aliens, Boats, Trains and Everything Else Under the Sun
Written by Lee J. Ames

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $9.95

For more than thirty years, the bestselling Draw 50 series has shown children how to create everything from puppies to ships, horses to skyscrapers, and aliens to racing cars. In this new addition to the beloved series, Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw sixty of his popular sketches step-by-step... Read more >

Landscape Painting
Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice
Written by Mitchell Albala

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $35.00

Because nature is so expansive and complex, so varied in its range of light, landscape painters often have to look further and more deeply to find form and structure, value patterns, and an organized arrangement of shapes. In Landscape Painting, Mitchell Albala shares his concepts and practices for translating nature's grandeur... Read more >

How to Draw What You See

Written by Rudy De Reyna

Format: Trade Paperback, 178 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1996
Price: $18.99

When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of... Read more >

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

Written by Freddie E Williams II
Foreword by Brian Bolland

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $22.99

At last–the first guide to drawing comics digitally! Artists! Gain incredible superpowers...with the help of your computer! The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics shows how to give up pencil, pen, and paper and start drawing dynamic, exciting comics art entirely with computer tools. Author Freddie E Williams is one... Read more >

The Cartoonist's Big Book of Drawing Animals

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2008
Price: $21.95

All of Chris Hart’s how-to-draw titles are best-sellers. And the best-sellers among all of his best-sellers are the ones about animals. How to Draw Cartoon Animals, just one example, appears regularly on the BookScan Top 50 Art Books list, with more than 190,000 copies sold. Now The Cartoonist’s Big Book of... Read more >

Humongous Book of Cartooning

Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $21.99

Chris Hart's Humongous Book of Cartooning is a great value book covering everything the beginner needs to master cartooning. It teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts, background design and much more. This latest cartoon title from Chris Hart, the world's bestselling author of drawing and cartooning books, packs a... Read more >

Manga Mania Chibi and Furry Characters
How to Draw the Adorable Mini-Characters and Cool Cat-Girls of Manga
Written by Christopher Hart

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2006
Price: $19.95

Everyone loves chibi, the newest, hottest manga style out of Asia. Chibis—characters that range from hypercute miniature people to bizarrely sexy furry characters—come in all varieties, all roles, including chibi teenagers, faeries, schoolgirls, nurses, mermaids, devils, angels, and everything in between. Now Christopher Hart, the world's best-selling author of cartoon and... Read more >