Drawing Animals Made Amazingly Easy
Written by Christopher Hart
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Price: $19.95
Christopher Hart, America’s best-selling author of art instruction books, tosses all that aside to make drawing animals truly amazingly easy, by simplifying animal anatomy so that artists can get the poses they really want. What does that animal look like as it moves, bends, twists, jumps, runs? Simplified skeletons and an...
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Creating Characters with Personality
Written by Tom Bancroft
Introduction by Glen Keane
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
From Snow White to Shrek, from Fred Flintstone to SpongeBob SquarePants, the design of a character conveys personality before a single word of dialogue is spoken.
Designing Characters with Personality shows artists how to create a distinctive character, then place that character in context within a script, establish hierarchy, and maximize...
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Van Gogh
The Life
Written by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Format: eBook, 976 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSteven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming narrative power. Now Naifeh and Smith have written another tour de force—an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable...
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Calligraphy
A Course in Hand Lettering
Written by Maryanne Grebenstein
Format: Non-traditional book, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $19.95
For anyone who’s ever been wowed by the writing on a wedding invitation rather than the reception...for anyone who’s ever studied the calligraphy on a wine list rather than the chianti...this is the ideal book! It’s a comprehensive calligraphy course between covers, taught by a distinguished calligrapher. From ninth-century Uncial to...
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Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner
Written by Claire Watson Garcia
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $19.95
Based upon the author’s own successful workshops,
Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face, both frontal and...
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Delirious New York
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Written by Rem Koolhaas
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1997
Price: $35.00
Since its original publication in 1978,
Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts...
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The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
Written by Dennis O'Neil
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2001
Price: $22.95
For any writer who wants to become an expert comic-book storyteller,
The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics is the definitive, one-stop resource!
In this valuable guide, Dennis O’Neil, a living legend in the comics industry, reveals his insider tricks and no-fail techniques for comic storytelling. Readers will discover the various methods...
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Drawing Manga Animals, Chibis, and Other Adorable Creatures
Written by J.C. Amberlyn
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $21.99
Learn the Tricks of the Trade for Drawing Irresistibly Cute Manga-Style Animals and Chibis! The world of manga is filled with strange creatures and adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring...
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Facial Expressions
A Visual Reference for Artists
Written by Mark Simon
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2005
Price: $21.99
All artists are tired of persuading their nearest and dearest to look sad…look glad…look mad…madder…no, even madder…okay, hold it. For those artists (and their long-suffering friends), here is the best book ever. Facial Expressions includes more than 2,500 photographs of 50 faces—men and women of a variety of ages, shapes, sizes...
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