technique

Presents illustrated instructions for drawing the human figure by breaking the body down into a variety of basic shapes, and includes anatomy studies, as well as information on proportions, facial features, and poses.

Presents thirteen interactive exercises and ten step-by-step demonstrations designed to help people develop their drawing skills by silencing their logical nature and letting their artistic side take over.

A comprehensive guide to the history and creation of collages, with step-by-by color photographs and instructions to a number of projects.

A guide to working with acrylic paints that offers step-by-step instructions for various painting techniques, as well as creative ideas for using the medium in various projects.

A guide to using digital cameras that provides information on finding the proper equipment, enhancing and manipulating photographs, downloading to the Internet, and other related topics.

A guide to the traditional one-brush Sumi-e painting that offers step-by-step instructions for basic skills and more advanced projects.

Presents instructions for drawing heads, features, and faces, focusing on perspective and planes; and includes over two hundred illustrations.

Discusses the major technical questions and practices of fiction: setting, plot, characterization, pointof-view, style, pace and tone, and theme.