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Celebrate Your Creative Self
More Than 25 Exercises to Unleash the Artist within

by Mary Todd Beam

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Artists and creatives of all kinds who are looking for new ways to liberate their artistic imagination will love this book. Readers are invited to playfully explore various aspects of visual art, such as light, color, texture and design through a series of imaginative art projects. Artists will experiment with a range of techniques and mediums in new and unconventional ways including: Capturing whites with crayon and wax resist; Glazing and floating colors; Portraying the patterns of nature with sedimentation and precipitation; Loosening up with gesso painting and printing with plastic; Constructing a new piece of art from old work; Experimenting with three-dimensional assemblage; Creating a street map; In addition, artists are prompted to challenge their imaginations by building new painting surfaces, creating their own personal symbols and more. Celebrate Your Creative Self is a fun, no-fail guide every artist should have.

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Fantastic Realms

by V Shane Colclough

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With "Fantastic Realms", readers will discover how to sketch, draw and colour their own fantasy worlds - one of the hottest trends in popular art today. This fantasy art guide begins with the basics and uses easy templates to help artists create fantasy worlds, from amazing characters and creatures to fantastic scenes and settings. This book includes: texture detail keys and colouring keys with each demonstration to show readers exactly how to create the different effects; templates of drawings for readers to practice inking or colouring on their own; and an appendix to help readers choose characters and scene characteristics. This is a perfect book for anyone who loves comics, collectable cards, role-playing games, and fantasy creatures.

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Graphic Storytelling

by Will Eisner

A companion to Comics & Sequential Art, this book takes the principles examined in that title and applies them to the process of graphic storytelling. Eisner shows comic artists, filmmakers and graphic designers how to craft stories in a visual medium. They'll also learn why mastering the basics of storytelling is far more important than the hollow flash and dazzle seen in lesser work. Readers will learn everything from the fine points of graphic storytelling to the big picture of the comics medium, including how to: Use art that enhances your story, rather than obscuring it; Wield images like narrative tools; Write and illustrate effective dialogue; Develop ideas that can be turned into dynamic stories; These lessons and more are illustrated with storytelling samples from Eisner himself along with other comic book favorites, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, Milton Caniff and Al Capp.

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Manga Secrets
Over 50 Quick Lessons in Drawing the World's Most Popular Art Style

by Lea Hernandez

Manga is fast becoming the world's most popular art style This Japanese-style comic book craze has legions of fans how want to re-create the exciting characters and scenes Now it's easy to do just that, with: 50 fun lessons starting with basic anatomy and building to entire comic pages; Step-by-step instructions for drawing people, creatures, places and backgrounds; Hundreds of action-packed illustrations with the pop-culture style comic book fans love; Basic techniques that produce fast and appealing results for readers; Perfect for beginning and advanced artists, Manga Secrets is the obvious choice for mastering this Japanese style Readers can get started in minutes.

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