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Perspective for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear and Easy Guide to Successful Perspective Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Perspective for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear and Easy Guide to Successful Perspective Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Perspective made simple. How to draw in a realistic style. Perspective is arguably the most important element of drawing and also one of the most difficult to master. It's what gives drawings dimension and is the key to realistic drawing. Now the best-selling authors of Drawing for the Absolute Beginner are here to demystify perspective, simplify concepts such as vanishing points and multi-point perspective, and make it easy for you to experience success...and have fun while you're doing it. • Tricks and techniques for creating depth and dimension using lines (linear perspective), values (atmospheric perspective) and color. • 23 mini demonstrations on how to apply basic principles of perspective make getting started easy. • 12 full step-by-step demonstrations, each with a structural drawing, cover a variety of subjects, including interiors, architecture and still lifes. • Starting with a simple box to illustrate fundamental concepts, artists will develop a working understanding of how to cast any subject in realistic depth and dimension. This book puts it all into perspective.

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1440343748

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The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Everyone can draw and paint, including you! Even if you have never drawn or painted before, you can start creating your own beautiful artwork. Let the Willenbrinks show you how! Beginning with materials and basic techniques, these pages will teach you everything you need to know to get started in drawing, watercolors and oil painting. Follow along with 75+ demonstrations and mini-demonstrations as you learn how to draw and paint a wide variety of subjects: people, landscapes, buildings, still life and more. Every essential art topic is covered, from sketching and shading to composition and color. Simple step-by-step instruction and many enormously useful lessons and tips will have you making your own masterpieces in no time! You may be an absolute beginner, but great results are absolutely within reach!

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1440337616

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9781440337611

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner will help you capture these moments in artwork and share them others. In their fun and friendly teaching style, Mark and Mary Willenbrink offer a great beginner's course on drawing nature, showing you how to realistically capture the world around you. All you need to get started are some simple supplies, basic techniques, and inspiration. From field to forest, beach or mountain, begin with a structural sketch, apply values and textures, and, before you know it, you'll be drawing everything you see. You'll even learn how to render favorite wildlife such as chipmunks, deer and eagles! • Follow along with easy step-by-step demonstrations to draw rocks, seashells, butterflies and even more developed nature scenes. • Gain a working understanding of key concepts such as perspective, value and composition. • Discover simple tools and tips you can use right away to improve your art.

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128

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1440323399

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9781440323393

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Learn how to draw people with this clear & easy guide that's perfect for beginners. Known for their friendly, focused approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This book steers you clear of common mistakes and brings clarity to even notoriously tricky concepts like perspective and values. While the human subject is wonderfully diverse, this book teaches an easy-to-learn approach that can be used to achieve accurate drawings every time. Thirteen complete figure drawing demonstrations show how. Start with a few lines to establish basic proportions, sketch in placement lines, then gradually develop details. Before you know it, you'll be drawing people of all ages, body types and personalities! This book makes it easy to get started. The quality of your results will encourage you to keep at it, building your skills and your confidence with every stroke. What's Inside: • Tricks for ensuring accurate body proportions and feature placement in your drawings. • Expert advice on drawing heads, hands, legs, clothes and more. • 13 step-by-step demonstrations featuring a diversity of model types, lighting and poses.

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1440330212

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9781440330216

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Open this book as an absolute beginner, and come away as a proud portrait artist. Mark and Mary Willenbrink's Absolute Beginner books have helped thousands of novices tap into their inner artists. In this book, Mark and Mary help the beginning artist take on portraits, showing that absolutely anyone can draw faces. Their encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction style makes learning fun—you'll be amazed by how quickly you achieve impressive results. Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner covers everything from warming up with sketches, and capturing facial expressions, to framing your finished work. Page by page, you'll build the skills and confidence you need to draw lifelike portraits of your friends and family. What's Inside: • A simple two-stage approach to drawing portraits: sketch a likeness, then build up values to bring it to life • Step-by-step instruction for drawing eyes, noses, mouths, hairstyles, hands, glasses and other tricky elements • 13 complete demonstrations featuring a range of ages and ethnicities • Tips for evoking more personality in your portraits by using props, costumes and accessories

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1440311544

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The Little Book of Drawing

A Friendly Approach

By: Mary Mcnaughton

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The Little Book of Drawing

A Friendly Approach

By: Mary Mcnaughton

The drawing book for everyone. What happened? As kids, we were all artists. After all, it doesn't take much: a pencil, some paper, a few minutes at a time and the basic concepts illustrated in The Little Book of Drawing. This book is the friendly little reminder that anyone can draw and draw well. Dr. Mary McNaughton's unique, friendly approach will help you rediscover art and develop that creative voice within you. • Covers all the fundamental concepts and techniques—stuff like contour and gesture drawing, the importance of value, how to build strong compositions and finding good subjects. • Provides engaging exercises challenge you to take your art to the next level by drawing with your other hand, working in series, turning your name into art, and other friendly exercises. • Helps you apply what you've learned and explore your own unique style in a series of drawing projects that range from gardens and landscapes to animals and the human figure. The Little Book of Drawing gives you enough direction to get you going, yet not so much that you feel overwhelmed or frustrated. The steps are little, but the results are big.

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1440317291

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The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

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Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

This inspiring book makes drawing in a realistic style easier than you may think and more fun than you ever imagined. Authors Mark and Mary Willenbrink (Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner) cover it all—from choosing materials and the correct way to hold your pencil, to expert advice on the tricky stuff, like getting proportions and perspective right, drawing reflections, and designing strong compositions. (It's not as scary as it sounds…not with Mark and Mary as your guide!) At the heart of this book, a series of fun, hands-on exercises help you practice and perfect your strokes—24 mini-demos lead up to 9 full step-by-step demos. Each exercise builds on the previous one as you develop your skills, build your confidence, and enjoy yourself along the way. The lessons you learn by drawing simple subjects such as coffee mugs, clouds and trees will help you take on progressively more challenging matter like animals, still lifes, landscapes and portraits…the kinds of subjects and scenes you've always dreamt of drawing. This book is just the ticket for budding artists of any age. It's never too early and never too late to discover the pure joy of drawing.

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1600616011

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Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

Start painting today - it's easier than you think. If you've ever dreamed of painting in watercolor, this is the book for you. It's designed to help you start experiencing the joy of watercolor immediately - even if you've never picked up a brush. Mark and Mary Willenbrink provide all the guidance and encouragement you need. Their painting techniques, tips and tricks help make every step you take a success, from selecting colors to designing a composition. It's like having two private art instructors right there at your side. In no time at all you'll be hanging original works of art - pieces you'll be proud to show to family and friends. The Willenbrinks' easy-to-follow instruction ensures it.

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1600617700

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Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature

By: Mark Willenbrink,Mary Willenbrink

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A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature

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1440323356

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The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

By: Mary Willenbrink

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More Than 100 Lessons in Pencil, Watercolor and Oil

By: Mary Willenbrink

Instruction on drawing and painting technique, as well as, choosing the right materials and getting perspective correct.

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North Light Books

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1440337551

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Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting

By: Mark Willenbrink

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Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner

A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Oil Painting

By: Mark Willenbrink

The quick-start guide to great results! Oil painting doesn't have to be rocket science, although some books on the subject make it seem that way. Filled with encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction, Oil Painting for the Absolute Beginner is a no-fear, no-experience-required guide to enjoyable painting and happy results. Focusing on the needs of the first-time painter, this book covers everything from selecting brushes and setting up your palette to key principles of color and composition, presented in a way that moves you confidently from first strokes to finished paintings. Mini demonstrations break down fundamental painting techniques in a clear, common sense way 12 step-by-step painting projects progress from simple landscapes, still life and flower paintings to more challenging subjects, such as animals, seascapes and portraits The bonus DVD-workshop features the author creating two paintings from start to finish You'll learn tricks for keeping the greens in your landscapes looking fresh, advantages to working with water-soluble oil paints, simple tips for dynamic compositions and other expert advice to make your introduction to oil painting the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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1600617840

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Book's by Mary Willenbrink

Perspective for the Absolute Beginner

Perspective for the Absolute Beginner

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

The Little Book of Drawing

The Little Book of Drawing

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner

Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

The Absolute Beginner's Big Book of Drawing and Painting

Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner

Oil Painting For The Absolute Beginner

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