technique

Discusses drawing tools and basic techniques and presents step-by-step instructions for ten drawing projects using graphite pencil, charcoal pencils, colored pencils, pastel pencils, hard chalks, charcoal and chalk, graphite sticks, fine liner, Cont?, and pen and wash.

Discusses the materials and techniques used to draw manga, covering the history of the art form, pencils, paper, color, narrative structure, page layout, style, creating characters, settings, and the work process.

Presents more than one thousand writing prompts designed to help writers spark their imaginations and create new fiction.

An introduction to abstract painting the describes common techniques used to create abstract pieces and profiles key works from various artists.

Provides a step-by-step, illustrated guide to painting, and presents ideas for capturing light, experimenting with painting surfaces, adding symbolism, exploring color composition, and more.

Writers Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer discuss humanity, writing, salvation, art, and the challenge of living.

Discusses how to develop a play using the collaborative method that carries a project from the writer's words through staging and the opening night performance, covering topics such as readings, contracts, preproduction, rehearsal, and design.

Compiles the artist's advice to the painters who worked in his studio in Italy during the Renaissance.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing caricatures.