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Cutting-Edge Fashion Illustration is the go-to resource and inspiration if you're a budding fashion designer, fashion illustrator or just simply want to learn more illustration techniques. Covers all key areas of illustration using traditional, digital and mixed media methods, offering clear...

Learn How to Draw Reptiles in Pencil For the Absolute BeginnerTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionDrawing MaterialsRenderingSphereConeCubeCylinderApplicationDrawing an OutlineGrid SystemDrawing and RenderingKing CobraYellow AnacondaGeckoDiamondback TerrapinGiant TortoiseAlbino AlligatorTuataraTips...

You can paint realistic skin tones that glow with life! Learning how to capture such quality has never been easier. Inside you'll find guidelines for rendering accurate skin tones in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil and pastel. You'll begin with a review of the five essential...

An instructional book for intermediate and advanced students, this volume is also a valuable tool for teachers looking to master the principles of light and shade. One of the most in-depth treatments available, it offers a wealth of details on mediums and techniques, including natural and artificial...

David Curtis is one of the most successful and loved artists in the UK. His books are bestsellers and in his latest publication he talks about the secrets of producing paintings with impact. Although his work is not showy, they are powerful and are much-sought after. His secrets for painting with...

This unique manual shows on the basis of 34 detailed tutorials, how to implement classical painting techniques on the computer. The range is wide: From the very simple smudge technique to drawing with pencil, colored pencils, charcoal and pastels, up to oil, acrylic and watercolor painting as well as...

Vincent van Gogh drew thousands of images to better his style. He believed that drawing was “the root of everything”. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. He produced nearly 150...

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 – 1664) was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his elaborate engravings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. Castiglione painted portraits, historical pieces...

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Parmigianino ("the little one from Parma") was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by elongation of form. Parmigianino was also an early Italian...

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758 – 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. Prud'hon's artistic style contrasted starkly with the dominant version of Neoclassicism under Jacques-Louis David. His paintings were based on classical texts and...

Anders Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character of his model is famous. The model's surroundings were important; Zorn believed that a portrait should be painted...

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758 – 1823) was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits. Prud'hon's artistic style contrasted starkly with the dominant version of Neoclassicism under Jacques-Louis David. His paintings were based on classical texts...

Quick & Clever Acrylics offers a comprehensive introduction to painting with acrylics the 'quick & clever' way, ideal for newcomers to the medium. It explores the full potential of acrylics (using them as watercolors and oils) focusing on getting top results quickly. Each project explores...

A plum blossom painting starts with the trunks and boughs either in freestyle or in outline. Small branches and blossoms, added afterward, may also be either in freestyle or in outline. It is not necessary to have blossoms in the same style as the trunks or branches. Many artists put outline blossoms...