A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
Introduces portraiture, still life, landscape painting, abstract painting, and surrealism; demonstrates painting techniques; and includes examples of famous paintings.
Outlines a twelve-step program for becoming an accomplished tennis player, providing 117 drills to help in game development and including drawings that illustrate proper tennis strokes and strategies.
Offers step-by-step instructions for drawing dragons, castles, and other objects of the medieval world; covers basic skills as well as advanced drawing techniques.
Shows how to draw manga characters, covering face shape; profile views; several types of eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair; figures in various positions; body-to-head ratio; and "chibi" characters.