acked with accessible tutorials and inside tips
and advice from contemporary artists, Sketch your World is the ultimate
handbook for anyone seeking to explore the exciting creative possibilities
afforded by sketching on location, whether in a bustling cafe, colorful street
market, or leafy park. Combining a winning formula of practical instruction and
creative inspiration, Sketch your World examines a range of techniques for
capturing great sketches on the go, covering topics such as how to improve
observation skills, sketch moving subjects, and create depth and mood in order
to convey a sense of atmosphere. Uniquely, the book also includes a variety of
techniques for working with digital tools such as tablets and smart pens.
Offering engaging advice and featuring the work of some of today's most
inventive urban artists from all over the world, Sketch your World gives
invaluable insight into their inspiration and working processes, while detailed
tutorials illustrate a range of techniques for readers to try, examining a
variety of drawing and sketching media from pencils to water colors. With its
fresh, highly accessible approach and use of inspirational, hip, and bang
up-to-date examples, Sketch your World is guaranteed to appeal to the growing
numbers of recreational artists who- permanently armed with sketchpad (or
tablet) and pen-thrive on capturing the world around them, wherever they happen
to be.
Packed with insightful, easy-to-follow tips and
featuring a refreshingly diverse range of work from contemporary artists, 365
Hints & Tips for Drawing & Sketching is a comprehensive, highly
accessible guide that is guaranteed to appeal to aspiring artists of all
levels. Based on 'a tip a day' being one of the most effective ways for artists
to tackle new techniques and approaches, the book's clear, straightforward
advice helps beginners to gain in confidence as they build their skills. A far
cry from other dry, run-of-the-mill art instruction books, 365 Hints & Tips
for Drawing & Sketching uses concise, easy-to-follow text to engage readers
and guide them through each different technique, covering everything from how
to hold a pencil to how to achieve depth and balance composition, as well as
tips for tackling specific subjects such as how to draw people or landscapes.
Handy cross-references are also peppered across every page, helping to direct
readers toward other relevant tips elsewhere in the book. Throughout the book,
tips and advice are accompanied by artwork from a range of exciting contemporary
artists, showcasing a wide variety of different media-including pencils, pen
and ink, and charcoal-and inspiring readers to try and achieve similar results
for themselves.
The Art of Urban Sketching is both a
comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the
world who draw the cities where they live and travel. This beautiful volume
explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and
how it is practiced today. It includes profiles of leading practitioners, a
discussion of the benefits of working in this art form, and shows how one can
participate and experience it through modern-day social networks and online
activity. The book is illustrated with over 700 beautiful, contemporary
illustrations, and includes artists' profiles and extended captions where these
urban sketchers share their stories, tips and tools. With sketches and
observations from more than 50 cities in more than 30 countries, the book
offers a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life from different
cultures and artistic styles, as well as insight into various drawing
techniques and mediums.
This bumper gift book for beginners is full of
practical advice and step-by-step exercises on drawing a wide range of popular
subjects - wildlife, people, the countryside and buildings. Drawing for
Beginners covers all the essential aspects of drawing, starting with advice on
the various drawing media - from pencils and pens to charcoal, pastel, pen and
wash, and conte - and explaining how they can be used to achieve different
effects. Other sections look at topics such as proportion, composition, light,
tone and texture. All the techniques are very clearly and simply described,
providing an ideal introduction to drawing for the complete beginner.
If you can write your name, you have enough
touch to learn to draw. Let Mark Linley inspire you to pick up your pencil and
create a magical masterpiece. His positive approach secures quick, accurate
results and ever-growing confidence. Learn to look properly and get the basic
outlines correct; include the key features but simplify what you see;
understand how shading (such as dot stipple or cross-hatching) can transform a
sketch; get the eye level right and see how a grid helps with the composition.
Whatever you want to draw - a beautiful holiday scene, a lifelike portrait of
your family or favourite pet, or even a funny cartoon to illustrate a birthday
card - Mark Linley shows, in this new edition of his bestselling book,
everything you need to succeed.
Created by one of Japan's most popular artists,
this book provides detailed and complete instruction for illustrating fun and
appealing characters and elements that celebrate life. The author's special and
distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists,
crafters, and art enthusiasts-with and without experience-the instruction and
inspiration to draw in the Japanese character style. This book is for artists
and crafters of all skill levels that want to bring their own illustration to
their work. It offers both entertaining and fun drawing instruction and
techniques along with inspiring and sweet unique style characters and elements.
Just Add Watercolour is an innovative and
accessible guide to this most dynamic of artforms, packed with bite-sized creative
painting tips and advice, offering aspiring artists the freedom to dip in and
out for practical information or flick through for fresh inspiration and ideas.
Showcasing nearly 100 works by contemporary artists across a range of different
styles and approaches, Just Add Watercolour highlights and examines the
different techniques, qualities and effects relating to each piece. Organized
into chapters according to medium and materials (e.g. traditional watercolour,
gouache, digital, mixed media) artwork is featured large and luscious,
accompanied by extended captions, insightful tips and practical advice. A
visual index at the front of the book enables the reader to easily identify a
specific painting, style, colour or subject matter. Throughout the book, useful
information and practical tips are provided on a wide range of topics such as
tone, perspective, colour and much more besides. Readers are encouraged to
discover the various ways in which similar subjects and styles are executed by
different artists, while also being inspired to use the tips in the book as a
way of building on their existing skills. Offering a bold, refreshing change
from other run-of-the-mill art books, Just Add Watercolour adopts the unique
approach of accessing practical information via the images, focusing on the way
subjects can be treated using a range of different watercolour techniques,
rather than looking at how to master one single style.
A little book of portraits : beyond the canvas
Inspired to paint or enthralled by the world of
portraiture? A Little Book of Portraits: Beyond the Canvas accompanies the
celebrated Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year series and includes sixty-four
of the finest portraits painted during the competition with illuminating
commentary from the three series judges: Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen
Soriano and Kate Bryan. The paintings featured in this book, include portraits
of famous sitters, such as Juliet Stevenson and John Humphrys, self-portraits
of the artists themselves and commissioned paintings of Hilary Mantel and
Sophie Dahl. The judges approach each painting from a different angle and with
a unique voice, reflecting their differing specialities within the art world.
Between them they uncover the approach, style and effectiveness of each
portrait whilst discussing the techniques critical to the success of the
painter's brushwork, likeness and perspective. With a wide range of different
mediums from oil to charcoal or even soil, the book takes us behind the
finished portrait and into the myriad of processes that creates one great work
of art. A Little Book of Portraits reveals the skills behind the artist's brush
that makes timeless and inventive portraiture.
Accompanies the celebrated Sky Arts Portrait
Artist of the Year series and includes sixty-four of the finest portraits
painted during the competition. Off Air Recording of the series can be
found in DVD Section of the Library at 757 SKY
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