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Essential Tools: A Comprehensive Guide to Drawing Tools and Materials Selection Unlock your artistic potential with this ultimate guide to drawing tools and materials. Whether you're a beginner just starting out or a seasoned artist looking to elevate your skills, this book provides everything you need to know about selecting and using the right supplies. Delve into the world of pencils, charcoal, ink pens, and blending tools, exploring their properties and techniques for creating stunning artwork. Discover the essential accessories, tool kits, and materials for drawing on different surfaces, including paper, canvas, and wood. Inside, you'll find: Comprehensive reviews of various drawing med...
Bursting with practical techniques, engaging artist profiles and inspirational galleries, Drawing and Painting combines an authoritative approach with a contemporary aesthetic guaranteed to appeal to all artists. The book's up-to-date approach is a far cry from the dry instructions and dated artwork that feature in more traditional art books. In contrast to other, project-orientated titles, Drawing and Painting places the emphasis on the techniques themselves, encompassing drawing, sketching and a range of painting styles. From pen and ink to oils and acrylics, specially commissioned photography and artwork accompanies step-by-step techniques, while profiles of contemporary artists provide insight into various working methods, materials and techniques. Acknowledging the growing interest in digital tools as a medium, information is provided throughout the book on how effects can be created using Smart Pens, tablets and apps.
Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as well as their uses and interactions with traditional drawing surfaces. Learn how to work with specific drawing tools, and then use them to create your own artwork. *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials first discusses how to create a drawing workspace—in particular, ensuring proper lighting and storage. This guide then details all of the most popular drawing media: the differences between and advantages of each, their purposes, and the effects that each tool can create. The b...
"A uniquely practical illustrated guide to all the popular techniques used in painting and drawing today. More than 250 full-colour pictures. More than 300 photographs and illustrations in two-colour and black-and-white. Photographs show the materials and equipment described. Step-by-step sequences illustrate technique. More than 100 Old Masters and contemporary paintings are analysed for materials and techniques used. Pencil drawing/pen and ink/charcoal/pastels/gouache/water colours/tempera/acrylics/oil painting. Additional chapters on framing and mounting/print making/drawing aids/airbrushing/exterior painting/fresco. How to make your own pigments/how to stretch your canvas/how to lay grounds/how to make varnishes. Historical background to the development and use of artists' materials." -back cover.
Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.
Merry Christmas! The internet phenomenon #DrawWithRob is now a fantastically festive art activity book for you to draw with Rob at home... The second book based on the viral videos seen everywhere on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, TV, and more, from the creative genius and bestselling author Rob Biddulph! Christmas is different this year, with more families at home and wondering what to do! Pick up your pencils and join thousands of children around the world and #DrawWithRob - celebrating Christmas has never been so much fun! The first DRAW WITH ROB activity book went to Number One in the charts and was named 'Book of the Year' at the 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards! Now every family can...
Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as well as their uses and interactions with traditional drawing surfaces. Learn how to work with specific drawing tools, and then use them to create your own artwork. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials first discusses how to create a drawing workspace—in particular, ensuring proper lighting and storage. This guide then details all of the most popular drawing media: the differences between and advantages of each, their purposes, and the effects that each tool can create. The book covers every drawing tool, including all pencil grades, flat sketching pencils, c...
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Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates more than 30 essential exercises, empowering you to draw the figure dramatically and with confidence, no matter your current level of skill. Filled with step-by-step demonstrations, inspiring images, and insightful text revealing a wide range of techniques and concepts, this book presents new ways to think about the figure and use your materials to free the artist within.