Serious Drawings

Serious Drawings
Author: Marc Johns
Publisher: teNeues
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783832793142

This offbeat collection of whimsical illustrations gently plays with our preconceptions. As we browse this selection of illustrated jests, we enter the artistas absurd and child-like world. Seemingly simple, these spare images are complex in their implications. Odd juxtapositions make us laugh and then think. As Marc Johns himself remarks afinding the humor in things often means finding the truth.a

Draw What Success Looks Like

Draw What Success Looks Like
Author: Sarah Cooper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781449476069

Adult coloring for cubicle dwellers. The creator of the viral sensation "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings" (5+ million views and hundreds of thousands of shares) helps you color away the stress with a coloring and activity book that will have you in stitches. Color in mind-numbing illustrated corporate idioms, such as the "deep dive," the "low-hanging fruit," and other buzzword coloring activities. Draw what success looks like; make it a Venn diagram. Find your way through the comfort zone maze and the unlock your potential maze. Write headstones for the good idea graveyard. Includes meeting survival guide coloring checklist. Plus mad libs for resignation letters, post mortems, peer reviews, and scathing manifestos.

The Mad Art of Caricature!

The Mad Art of Caricature!
Author: Tom Richmond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780983576709

MAD magazine illustrator Tom Richmond teaches how to draw caricatures, with an emphasis on aspects of the head and face.

Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner

Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner
Author: Bet Borgeson
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0307832082

This new addition to a sucessful series is a sophisticated primer for readers who aeriously want to develop a professional career specializing in an art medium with great commercial potential. The book opens with a review of the methods of unique to colored pencil, its handling properties, and breadth of color range. Readers are shown how to create illusions of form, volume, and space, and how to avoid overworking a picture by learning to see when it's finished. Then the author shares her special techniques for the most popular genres, still life and landscape, and for nontraditional subjects as well. She concludes with an insightful discussion on personal style and becoming a professional artist.

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner
Author: John Elliot
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823033119

Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First, artists learn how to use oil pastels to create traditional paintings in still landscape and portraiture. Then the author explores 12 specific experimental techniques, including impasto, washes and monoprint; stencil and screen techniques; and methods for combining pastel with soft pastel and mixed media.

Student's Guide to Painting

Student's Guide to Painting
Author: Jack Faragasso
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486837394

Fortieth anniversary reissue features improved imagery, materials, and edits, guided by extensive notes by the author, an expert in the Frank J. Reilly method of understanding how color works in realistic lighting conditions.