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The Art of Painting Animals

Learn to create beautiful animal portraits in oil, acrylic, and watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Lorraine Gray,Jason Morgan

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The Art of Painting Animals

Learn to create beautiful animal portraits in oil, acrylic, and watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Lorraine Gray,Jason Morgan

In The Art of Painting Animals, aspiring painters will learn how to work with oil, acrylic, and watercolor paints to bring their favorite animals to life on paper or canvas. Each medium has its section that begins with an introduction, which includes a section of helpful information on basic tools and materialsâ€”including paints, brushes, appropriate supports, and additional materialsâ€”followed by a quick guide to techniques and artist tips for rendering animal features and fur, as well as natural textures such as bark and foliage. Talented artists guide readers through a series of easy-to-follow step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from pets and horses to wildlife and birds. Projects include a moose, a Shih Tzu dog, a fox, a deer, a lynx, and many more! Along the way, aspiring artists will find helpful tips and tricks for establishing a compelling composition, achieving accurate proportions, and developing expressive animal faces and emotions. With its breadth of content and instruction, The Art of Painting Animals is perfect for any animal-loving artist's collection.

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Walter Foster Publishing

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1627889280

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The Art of Comic Book Drawing

More than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards

By: Maury Aaseng,Bob Berry,Jim Campbell,Dana Muise,Joe Oesterle

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The Art of Comic Book Drawing

More than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards

By: Maury Aaseng,Bob Berry,Jim Campbell,Dana Muise,Joe Oesterle

Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines. Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw basic cartoon characters, superheroes, villains, and more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you’ll learn to draw action scenes, set up panels, add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book word treatments. With approachable exercises and projects to guide you, The Art of Comic Book Drawing allows beginning artists to create their own comic books, step by step. This helpful guide also includes practice pages to put your newfound skills to immediate use.

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1633228304

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The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Louise De Masi,Hailey E. Herrera,Ronald Pratt

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The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Louise De Masi,Hailey E. Herrera,Ronald Pratt

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor"--Cover.

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1633220885

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9781633220881

The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration

More than 50 tips and techniques for drawing characters, animals, and expressions

By: Maury Aaseng,Clay Butler,Jim Campbell,Dan D'Addario,Alex Hallat,Joe Oesterle

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The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration

More than 50 tips and techniques for drawing characters, animals, and expressions

By: Maury Aaseng,Clay Butler,Jim Campbell,Dan D'Addario,Alex Hallat,Joe Oesterle

In The Little Book of Cartooning & Illustration, beginning cartoonists, animators, and illustrators will discover key concepts associated with learning the art of traditional cartooning and animation. With this guide, dozens of tips from the pros will help you find the materials and tools you need to develop your own unique style. A combination of creative step-by-step projects and open practice areas offer encouragement and invite participation for those artists who want to put their newfound skills to immediate use. You'll learn all the cartooning and animation tricks of the trade, including: The squash and stretch principle Exaggerating details Rendering faces and expressions Anthropomorphizing inanimate objects Creating original characters Mastering body shapes and movement Writing gags and jokes With so many tools at your disposal, why wait any longer to start animating? Get started, get drawing! The Little Book of ... series focuses on delivering fun, approachable, and interesting art instruction in a fresh, portable format. With its contemporary design, open practice pages, creative exercises, and prompts that encourage interactivity, beginning artists learn the fundamentals of their craft, often with immediate results.

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1633226204

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Learn to Draw American Landmarks & Historical Heroes

Step-by-step Instructions for Drawing National Monuments, State Symbols, and More!

By: Maury Aaseng

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Learn to Draw American Landmarks & Historical Heroes

Step-by-step Instructions for Drawing National Monuments, State Symbols, and More!

By: Maury Aaseng

Discover new things about the United States as you learn to draw many of its locations, monuments, state symbols, and iconic figures.

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1600583075

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9781600583070

The Art of Cartooning & Illustration

By: Maury Aaseng,Clay Butler,Dan D'Addario,Jim Campbell,Alex Hallat,Jack Keely

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The Art of Cartooning & Illustration

By: Maury Aaseng,Clay Butler,Dan D'Addario,Jim Campbell,Alex Hallat,Jack Keely

An inclusive resource, The Art of Cartooning & Illustration introduces artists to the basics of traditional cartooning and animation, as well as how to develop their own unique cartooning style, write storylines, and create gags, using both traditional media and digital imaging software.

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1600583636

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Forest Animals

Discover Your Inner Artist as You Learn to Draw Majestic Wildlife in Graphite

By: Maury Aaseng

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Forest Animals

Discover Your Inner Artist as You Learn to Draw Majestic Wildlife in Graphite

By: Maury Aaseng

Discover your inner artist as you learn to draw majestic wildlife in graphite.

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1600583806

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Drawing: Birds

Learn to draw step by step

By: Maury Aaseng

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Drawing: Birds

Learn to draw step by step

By: Maury Aaseng

With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil. Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Discover helpful tips for creating a good composition, understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking artistic liberties. After learning the drawing basics, jump into the easy step-by-step projects to draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees. In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng offers simple, comprehensive instruction for drawing a range of lovely birds, as well as information for achieving accurate proportions, capturing motion, and building up form. Aaseng also shows you how to create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. With his easy step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic. Easy-to-follow instruction and art tips throughout make Drawing: Birds a complete guide for creating realistic and detailed drawings of these feathered friends. For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a must-have art-instruction reference. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Birds allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

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1633228509

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Portfolio: Beginning Watercolor

Tips and techniques for learning to paint in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng

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Portfolio: Beginning Watercolor

Tips and techniques for learning to paint in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng

From the first brushstroke to the finishing touch, let the Portfolio series guide you as you begin your artistic journey in watercolor painting. Beginning Watercolor teaches aspiring artists everything they need to know to get started painting in watercolor. This helpful resource begins with a basic introduction to the essential tools and materials artists need to get started, including choosing the right paintbrushes, watercolor paints, sketchbooks, and canvas. Additionally, artists will learn the fundamentals of watercolor, as well as a variety of painting techniques, including creating washes, mixing colors, creating soft blends, rendering realistic textures, and working wet-into-wet. Beginning Watercolor guides beginners through a series of easy-to-follow, step-by-step projects covering a variety of watercolor methods and techniques, including helpful tips and advice when painting landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and more. With helpful tips and detailed, beautiful artwork to guide and inspire, Beginning Watercolor is the perfect resource for watercolor artists just getting started in this colorful medium.

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1633223604

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9781633223608

Cartooning: Basic Cartooning

Learn to draw cartoon characters and scenes

By: Maury Aaseng

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Cartooning: Basic Cartooning

Learn to draw cartoon characters and scenes

By: Maury Aaseng

Perfect for beginners, Basic Cartooning: Learn to Draw Cartoon Characters and Scenes introduces drawing cartoon heads and bodies and other techniques through step-by-step projects.

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1633220095

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Portfolio: Beginning Watercolor

Tips and techniques for learning to paint in watercolor

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Portfolio: Beginning Watercolor

Tips and techniques for learning to paint in watercolor

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The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Louise De Masi,Hailey E. Herrera,Ronald Pratt

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The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng,Louise De Masi,Hailey E. Herrera,Ronald Pratt

Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor"--Cover.

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Forest Animals

Discover Your Inner Artist as You Learn to Draw Majestic Wildlife in Graphite

By: Maury Aaseng

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Forest Animals

Discover Your Inner Artist as You Learn to Draw Majestic Wildlife in Graphite

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Discover your inner artist as you learn to draw majestic wildlife in graphite.

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Learn to Draw American Landmarks & Historical Heroes

Step-by-step instructions for drawing national monuments, state symbols, and more!

By: Maury Aaseng

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Learn to Draw American Landmarks & Historical Heroes

Step-by-step instructions for drawing national monuments, state symbols, and more!

By: Maury Aaseng

From the sea to shining sea, the United States of America is a storied country full of life, liberty, and the pursuit of artistic happiness! Children will love learning about this great country as they learn to draw many of its diverse locations, monuments, and iconic figures. Learn to Draw American Landmarks & Historical Heroes features step-by-step instructions for drawing the very symbols of freedom, such as the American Flag, the White House, the Statue of Liberty, and the National Monument. In addition, the book will feature instructions for drawing the flags and various symbols from each state, such as California's Golden Gate Bridge and New York's Empire State Building. Historical figures, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere, round out this informative and educational drawing book that is packed with fun facts, easy-to-follow instructions, and lots of patriotic spirit.

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Walter Foster Jr

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1627889183

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9781627889186

Drawing: Birds

Learn to Draw a Variety of Amazing Birds Step by Step

By: Maury Aaseng

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Drawing: Birds

Learn to Draw a Variety of Amazing Birds Step by Step

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Learn how to draw a variety of amazing birds step by step"--Cover

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Cartooning: Basic Cartooning

Learn to draw cartoon characters and scenes

By: Maury Aaseng

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Cartooning: Basic Cartooning

Learn to draw cartoon characters and scenes

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Perfect for beginners, Basic Cartooning: Learn to Draw Cartoon Characters and Scenes introduces drawing cartoon heads and bodies and other techniques through step-by-step projects.

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Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials

A practical guide to paints, brushes, palettes and more

By: Walter Foster Creative Team

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Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials

A practical guide to paints, brushes, palettes and more

By: Walter Foster Creative Team

Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials is an easy-to-use guide which focuses on teaching you the fundamentals of working with paint and the tools that come with it. In Artist Toolbox: Painting Tools & Materials, artists will discover the important differences in brush styles, sizes, shapes, and types; how each brush is used to create different types of strokes; and how different types of brushes interact with various paints and supports. You will learn how to properly load brushes with paint, how to shape brushes to create specific strokes and effects, when to choose synthetic hair over natural hair, and much more. Experienced art instructors focus on the key concepts and practical aspects of working with specific tools, materials, and mediums to impart a complete understanding for those seeking to learn the fundamentals of painting. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolbox series breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve your desired effects.

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1633224562

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Drawing: Birds

Learn to draw step by step

By: Maury Aaseng

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Drawing: Birds

Learn to draw step by step

By: Maury Aaseng

With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil. Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive, 10.25 × 13.75–inch book book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Discover helpful tips for creating a good composition, understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking artistic liberties. After learning the drawing basics, jump into the easy step-by-step projects to draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees. In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng offers simple, comprehensive instruction for drawing a range of lovely birds, as well as information for achieving accurate proportions, capturing motion, and building up form. Aaseng also shows you how to create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. With his easy step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic. Easy-to-follow instruction and art tips throughout make Drawing: Birds a complete guide for creating realistic and detailed drawings of these feathered friends. For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a must-have art-instruction reference. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Birds allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

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The Art of Comic Book Drawing

More than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards

By: Maury Aaseng,Bob Berry,Jim Campbell,Dana Muise,Joe Oesterle

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The Art of Comic Book Drawing

More than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards

By: Maury Aaseng,Bob Berry,Jim Campbell,Dana Muise,Joe Oesterle

Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines. Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw basic cartoon characters, superheroes, villains, and more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you’ll learn to draw action scenes, set up panels, add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book word treatments. With approachable exercises and projects to guide you, The Art of Comic Book Drawing allows beginning artists to create their own comic books, step by step. This helpful guide also includes easy-to-use comic book templates so you can put your newfound skills to immediate use.

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