Graphic Art category: 1709 books
Character Design from the Ground Up
Make Your Sketches Come to Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
All stories have characters, and whether its a film, game, book, or comic, all characters need to be designed. Character design has become a distinct discipline in the entertainment industry, and character designers are employed by film and game companies across the globe to bring life to scripts...
A Portrait of Bowie
A tribute to Bowie by his artistic collaborators and contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ART
Now, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie during his lifetime - or who were his contemporaries - pay tribute to the icon through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius repeatedly broke boundaries,...
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
A Study in Typography
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Andrew Airpump ask'd his Aunt her ailment, Davy Dolldrum dream'd he drove a Dragon, Jumping Jackey jeer'd a Jesting Juggler, and Rory Rumpus rode a raw-bon'd Race-horse among other antics in this antique alphabet of tongue twisters.
Originally published in 1836, this charming collection of whimsical...
by Austin Howe
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Feeling uninspired? If you’re a creative professional-or just someone who’d like to be more creative in your work and daily life-look no further than Designers Don’t Have Influences. Creative director, writer, advocate, and design cheerleader Austin Howe’s elegant, incisive, and amusing essays...
by Tarek Hegazy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This book is a nice mix of logical explanations about faith and professionally made cartoon art. The main statement of the book is that belief should not be blind and that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are versions of one religion.Naturally, many difficult questions come to our minds about...
by Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication, translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie" himself) and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75 years, served as the...
Reportage Illustration
Visual Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactively creating narrative work about issues and subjects,...
by Rae Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Brimming with joie de vivre, France provides a glimpse into the gorgeous sketchbooks that artist Rae Dunn compiles during her annual sojourns in Paris, Provence, and the French Riviera. Colors, tastes, and smells come to life with each turn of the page, as Dunn's charming watercolor sketches and dreamy...
by Maria Poulos
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Learn the basics of good logo design from a professional graphic designer. This guide covers concepts on format, color, typeface and describes best practises for use. Covers how to use a logo, how to modify, and discusses original vs royalty-free art.
Picture This
How Pictures Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled...
Lively Advertising Cuts of the Twenties and Thirties
1,102 Illustrations of Animals, Food and Dining, Children, etc.
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Extensive collection of engaging, copyright-free period graphics embracing variety of categories—amusements, children’s activities, women’s fashions, domestic and barnyard animals, eating, drinking, much more. Delightful visual commentary on early 20th-century life; invaluable sourcebook for graphic artists.
Paracuellos 7
Hombres del mañana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Paracuellos 7. Hombres del mañana es el esperado regreso de Carlos Giménez a su serie más magistral.
Paracuellos es la gran obra-río de Carlos Giménez y un exponente magistral del cómic autobiográfico. En el séptimo álbum de la serie, a la que regresa el autor tras una pausa de casi...
How to Draw Digital Manga and Anime
Professional techniques for creating your own digital manga and anime, with over 35 exercises and projects shown in 400 step-by-step illustrations and photographs
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Manga, the famous Japanese art form, has advanced into a cutting-edge drawing style that takes advantage of the latest digital technologies and innovations. Computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter now allow manga artists to create digital artworks, as well as live-action animation...
Body Type
Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Body Type is an eye-opening look into the amazingly creative ways that tattoo artists are utilizing typography. Whereas the majority of tattoo art uses images to convey messages, here the message actually is the image. Twenty-six alphabetical characters might not seem like much to work with, but a...