Graphic Tools & Techniques is a comprehensive guide to those all-important art tools such as portfolios, camera lucidas, and parallel rules. It's designed for the graphic artist who prefers to spend his or her time at the drawing board creating, rather than in the art supply store shopping. But this book is more than simply a help in setting up your studio - it's a valuable guide to such a basic and unique techniques as: laying dry transfer lettering, tones, and corners; using a sponge to create texture; making and using your own tracing carbo; stretching paper. -- Publisher.