drawing

Despite his family's opinion that his love of drawing is impractical, Gerald insists that his art is important because it makes him feel good.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing faces.

Provides step-by-step instructions on developing the basic artistic skills for producing quality sketches, with forty projects that offer detailed advice on various techniques, and information on tools, materials, and keeping a workbook.

A guide to drawing that focuses on a freeform, abstract approach, with hands-on instruction for a variety of exercises and over 120 images of works by well-known artists.

Design is something we encounter all around us every day.The fundamentals of design are the same, no matter the medium. Examine what they are in this book, a survey.

Presents a discussion of postmodern art from 1945 to 2008, covering the currents, themes, and names that are part of contemporary art in its various forms, including painting, sculpting, photography, performance art, architecture, land art, graffiti artists, action painting, and more, and contains over four hundred color images.

Presents an exploration of perspective as it relates to drawing, discussing and demonstrating one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective, measurements, foreshortening, and ellipses, and other related issues.

Provides information about pencils as a drawing medium; discusses materials, hand positions, lighting, textures and strokes, perspective, value, and other topics; and includes step-by-step demonstrations of thirteen drawing projects.

Traces the development of surrealism from its origins in the Dada anti-art revolt of 1916 to 1920 to the death of Andre Breton, one of the movement's key leaders, in 1966.