"50 Robots to draw and paint" contains step-by-step demonstrations for drawing and painting 50 fantasy-art robots, as well as innovative suggestions for adapting and modifying designs. It covers a wide range of stylistic approaches, from efficient minimal designs and eccentric Victorian clockwork mechanisms to merciless war droids and super-clean service bots. It also features advice from professional artists for finding inspiration,...

NX 9.0 for Designers is a comprehensive textbook that introduces the users to feature based 3D parametric solid modeling using the NX 9.0 software. The textbook covers all major environments of NX with a thorough explanation of all tools, options, and their applications to create real-world products. In this textbook, about 60 mechanical engineering industry examples are used as tutorials and an additional 35 as exercises to ensure t...

Bob Kato writes in a lively manner that makes me feel the energy and enthusiasm from the club. This book is a culmination of drawing tips, motivation talk and work created by the members over the years. This is a figure drawing book in essence, one that focuses on storytelling, in other words, creating a drawing that the audience knows instantly what's going on .... Every chapter has some exercises that allows you to experiment with ...

When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna’s methods. How to Draw What You See...

When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter. Painting doesn't have to be complicated to be good. In fact, it shouldn't be. Artist and best-selling author Linda Kemp (Watercolor Painting Outside the Lines) bypasses all the complexities of design and color to focus on a fresh, simplified strategy for success that features negative painting--a method that uses the space around your subject to help define ...

Aspiring oil painters can take a journey with four accomplished oil artists as they follow along with step-by-step demonstrations that feature a variety of techniques and a range of subject matter. Artists of all skill levels will appreciate the appeal of each approach as they learn to paint tropical seascapes, pastoral landscapes, dynamic still lifes, captivating animal portraits, and more. Oil Painting Step by Step walks you throug...

Zentangle is a relaxing and rewarding process that allows all ages to create artistic designs with repetitive patterns (tangles). Enjoy the experience that tangling brings. Drawing simple tangles can be done anywhere and no 'artistic' talent is needed. The process helps anyone get in touch with life, solve problems, turn mistakes into positives, be innovative and become more creative. Add touches of color for brilliance and inspiration.

A Clumsy Encounter offers an interrogation of inclusive education by exploring the point at which dyspraxia and drawing from observation meet within formal learning environments. Drawing on stories of individual experience, this book seeks to promote the interrogation of implicit educational practices. Here the complexity of observational drawing is examined not within a closed community of art education but within the social and cul...

Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists wit an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject area and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire the artistic talent in anyone.

Welcome ALL artists of any level who are looking to expand their skillset and learn something new.How to Draw Picture Perfect Portraits will give you the power to apply new skill through instruction. Intro Materials Drawing Skills to Master Techniques Specific to Drawing Portraits Drawing Parts of the Face 1 Drawing Parts of the Face 2 Basics of Composition Setting Up A Grid First Outlines Where to Begin Background Top Left Bold Outl...