Drawing and Designing with Confidence

Drawing and Designing with Confidence
Author: Mike W. Lin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1993-08-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0471283908

Readers of this book learn graphic rendering skills quickly with the proven how-to approach that has made Lin the most successful teacher in the field. His method emphasizes speed, confidence, and relaxation, while incorporating many time-saving tricks of the trade.

The Art of Confidence

The Art of Confidence
Author: Wendy Lee
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161773490X

“I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years—longer than I had lived in my homeland—that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit.” Liu Qingwu doesn’t set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting—something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative commission he receives from a Chelsea art dealer is more complicated than he initially realizes. Liu has been hired to create not an homage to Andrew Cantrell’s modernist masterpiece, Elegy, but a forgery that will sell for millions. The painting will change the lives of everyone associated with it—Liu, a Chinese immigrant still reeling from his wife’s recent departure; Caroline, a gallery owner intent on saving her aunt’s legacy; Molly, her perceptive assistant; and Harold, a Taiwanese businessman with an ethical dilemma on his hands. Weaving together their stories with that of Cantrell and the inspiration for his masterpiece, Wendy Lee’s intricate, multilayered novel explores the unique fascination of great art and the lengths to which some are driven to create it—and to possess it.

Creative Confidence

Creative Confidence
Author: Tom Kelley
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0385349378

IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.

Drawing 365

Drawing 365
Author: Katherine Tyrrell
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781440336584

Perfect for all artistic levels, an ultimate drawing resource, which doubles as a day-by-day companion and workshop, is packed with tips, ideas, techniques and challenges to help readers build skills, gain confidence and achieve creative happiness. Original.

Keys to Drawing with Imagination

Keys to Drawing with Imagination
Author: Bert Dodson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440350736

Draw with Confidence and Creativity! New in paperback! Creativity occurs in action. It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. This ten-year edition of Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it and make something new. Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing (more than 250,000 copies sold!) presents fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile. The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 58 strategies, 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to: • Take your doodling from mindless to masterful • Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects • Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original • Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor • Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings • Play with patterns to create captivating compositions • Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures • Develop a theme in your work Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 70 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he includes the work of 30 other outstanding artists, including R. Crumb and Maya Lin. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create. *Note to readers: This book is a 10-year anniversary paperback reprint of the Keys to Drawing with Imagination hardcover edition (2006).

Drawing Workshop for Kids

Drawing Workshop for Kids
Author: Samara Caughey
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1631599437

Help kids build confidence and find their own creative voice through this collection of 25+ invitations for drawing. In Drawing Workshop for Kids, art educator Samara Caughey, founder of the highly praised family-centered art studio Purple Twig, shares drawing activities that support the development of creative, confident children ages 7 and up. All kids need to begin engaging in the pleasure of these simple yet inspiring drawing projects are a pencil and paper. Along the way, new materials are introduced, giving kids the opportunity to experiment with new techniques. Each of the three main chapters—drawing from life, drawing from images, and inventive drawing—focuses on techniques to explore, such as observation, mark making, shadow, line, composition, detail, contour, and perspective. Drawing Workshop for Kids strives to inspire children to investigate drawing and develop their own approach to art, building creativity and confidence.

Draw and Sketch - Buildings

Draw and Sketch - Buildings
Author: Jim Woods
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-11-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581803105

This engaging book will have beginning artists sketching with accuracy and confidence in just six easy steps. Focusing on a dynamic range of buildings and architecture, special exercises introduce the key elements of composition to readers as they sharpen their drawing skills. Twenty drawing exercises gradually lead artists from simple sketches to more complex drawings. Within each exercise, the fundamentals of drawing are clearly illustrated in step-by-step fashion for artists to practice and employ in their own work. This guide also introduces artists to a variety of popular mediums, from charcoal and pastel to pen and ink and watercolor. the use of each medium is demonstrated in basic steps beginners can master easily. Jim Woods was a successful creative designer and currently devotes his time to painting professionally. His paintings are hanging in private collections all over the world and are included in many watercolor shows throughout the UK. He also teaches drawing and painting classes to hundreds of students each year. He lives in Castle Cary, Somerset, England.

Sketching 365

Sketching 365
Author: Katherine Tyrell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9781845435561

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.

Painting Figures & Animals with Confidence

Painting Figures & Animals with Confidence
Author: Margaret Evans
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Animals in art
ISBN: 9780715312629

A practical guide to painting animals and figures into the background, middle area and foreground of pictures, using water-based media. It discusses problems that may be encountered and offers solutions and techniques to overcome them. It also contains exercises and step-by-step demonstrations to follow.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.