Art Models 7

Art Models 7
Author: Maureen Johnson
Publisher: Art Models
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781936801183

Artists in search of figures in intense action—flying through the air, punching, kicking, and crouching—will find more than 100 poses of male and female models in 28 categories of dynamic movement in the latest addition to the Art Models series. Informed by diverse sources such as baroque art, with its moody lighting and twisting figures, and comic books, with heroic figures in strong stances and suspicious crouches, this visual reference will inspire any artist—comic book artists, animators, video game designers, and illustrators—interested in depicting drama. A section of time-stopping photos of actions including jumping, falling, or swinging a sword offers artists a series of expertly photographed views that would be very challenging to achieve with a studio model. Art Models 7 also presents a number of the series' trademark stationary poses photographed in 24-point rotation and shot in the round. For artists who work in fine detail, close-ups and dramatic perspectives have been added for numerous positions and can be found on the companion disc in resolutions up to 20 megapixels.

Art Models 6

Art Models 6
Author: Maureen Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780981624983

Whether trying a new technique, getting in some practice time, or working on a finished piece, this figure study enables artists to create their choice of model, pose, and view whenever and wherever they'd like. The latest addition to the series will help artists become proficient in incorporating chiaroscuro or light and dark lighting?a technique used by the great masters to produce drama and depth in their paintings?to define the human form. Additional expressions and body details highlighting challenging areas such as the face, hands, and feet in even greater detail augment the disc. Varieties of body types?ranging from thin to plus-size?and ethnicities are included. Poses have been carefully chosen to illustrate important effects such as foreshortening and perspective changes. With this guide, artists can achieve longer drawing sessions than they could when drawing from a model directly. While viewing from many angles and at their own pace is often impossible for artists in a studio session, it becomes as easy as putting in the disc and opening any photo. A judicious amount of photo retouching is done?not to make the models more glamorous or plastic but to remove distractions that detract from the models' essence. The PC/Mac-compatible DVD-ROM features more than 2,500 high-resolution JPEG photos providing a number of viewing options?on a computer screen, printed out, projected for a group, or via a high-definition television. Each angle of every pose may also be enlarged, enabling artists to zoom in on specific body parts to achieve a higher level of detail.

The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners

The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners
Author: Ken Goldman
Publisher: Walter Foster
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1600589456

The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners combines step-by-step pencil lessons and additional graphite portrait examples to demonstrate how to accurately render the human form in a variety of realistic poses.

Art Models 2

Art Models 2
Author: Maureen Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Artists' models
ISBN: 9780976457381

Artists looking to supplement a live model class or hone their skills from the comfort of home are provided with a solid pictorial guide to the human form in this detailed reference. Nearly 200 crisp photographs portray a diverse group of male and female models from a variety of angles in 52 classically inspired poses. Precise lighting reveals otherwise hidden areas of the models and illustrates rich shadowing and tone, while an anatomical study, inspired by da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, presents detailed proportional references for each model. The accompanying CD-ROM contains nearly 1,500 high-resolution, full-color images, allowing artists to zoom in on challenging areas such as the hands, feet, and face, or project the photos to life-size proportions. Nine poses with overhead views are also exclusively available on the CD-ROM.

Art Models Ultra

Art Models Ultra
Author: Live Model Books
Publisher: Live Model Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780981624990

From action to static, fully clothed to nude, and full-body to close-up poses, this high resolution figure reference enables digital artists to give their creations ultra-realistic features and traditional artists to create detailed or monumental-size paintings and drawings. This comprehensive figure study of a single female model provides 360-degree surround and detailed views of every part of the body from multiple angles with particular attention given to the most challenging areas such as eyes, hands, and feet. Phonemes show the mouth in 10 different positions—A, C, E, F, L, M, O, U, W, and rest—and images of expressions register six universally recognized emotions—anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, and surprise—plus neutral. The figure reference is designed for use in a computer, is PC and Mac compatible, and only requires standard photo-viewing software such as that built into Windows and OS X. Images are photographed at 21 megapixels; cropped to eliminate excess background; developed in 16-bit to normalize white balance and exposure; and painstakingly edited to remove basic blemishes such as dry skin, pimples, and scars while retaining all other natural skin detail. Ensuing images are virtually indistinguishable from the source PSD files, yielding ultra-real, detailed, and close-up views of a natural, red-headed model.

Art Models 10

Art Models 10
Author: Douglas Johnson
Publisher: Art Models
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781936801459

The best way to improve in figure art is to practice, which requires quality reference material that inspires you. That's what the Art Models series is all about. With 100 high-resolution, full-page photos of nude art models--both female and male--Art Models 10 will inspire students and professionals alike to practice and create finished works of art (which may be sold royalty free). For students, we provide a brief instructional exercise at the beginning of the book, written by author and art teacher Butch Krieger, that will have you improving right away using pose photos. The 100 distinct poses within the book were selected by a team of experienced art instructors to ensure they are genuinely useful for both students and professionals, with sections on hands, feet, and faces that give close-up views of these notoriously tricky areas. Art Models 10 also separates the disk and book, making possible a dramatic reduction to the cover price, even while increasing the number of pages. Become a better artist with Art Models 10--novices can practice and experts can perfect.

The Art of LEGO Design

The Art of LEGO Design
Author: Jordan Schwartz
Publisher: No Starch Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1593275536

The most impressive LEGO models often take careful planning (and lots of pieces), but with some inspiration, a little imagination, and a number of tried-and-true techniques, you too can turn bricks into a masterpiece.In The Art of LEGO® Design, author Jordan Schwartz explores LEGO as an artistic medium. This wide-ranging collection of creative techniques will help you craft your own amazing models as you learn to see the world through the eyes of some of the greatest LEGO builders. Each concept is presented with a collection of impressive models to spark your imagination—like fantastic dragons, futuristic spaceships, expressive characters, and elaborate dioramas. You’ll discover some of the inventive techniques that LEGO artists use to: –Create lifelike creatures from unusual elements like inside-out tires and minifigure capes –Design sleek cars without showing a single stud –Add ambience to dioramas with light bricks or LEDs –Craft eye-catching textures to create cobblestone roads and brick walls –Build sturdy, detailed, posable mechs and other figures –Add depth with forced perspective and interesting silhouettes Interviews with the talented builders behind many of the book’s models reveal their thoughts on the design process and what inspires them most. Even if you’ve been building with LEGO since you could crawl, you’ll find new inspiration in The Art of LEGO® Design.

The Fifth Discipline

The Fifth Discipline
Author: Peter M. Senge
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307477649

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”—Harvard Business Review This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: • Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them • Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity • Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets • Teach you to see the forest and the trees • End the struggle between work and personal time This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.