technique

A guide to sketching, looking at tools and materials, and using illustrations, step-by-step demonstrations, and gallery examples to explore the topics of planning and drawing, design in two and three dimensions, form and space, tone, color, pattern and texture, line and movement, and style.

Step-by-step instructions explain how to draw different characters, creatures, and places from the world of Japanese comics.

Easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photographs explain how to do thirty-five watercolor techniques, from laying down washes to using salt to create texture.

An illustrated, step-by-step guide to the materials, tools, and techniques of mosaics, covering planning, borders, colors, tile cutting, and many other topics.

Offers step-by-step, visual demonstrations of each technique from blending, blocking, and burnishing to sgraifito, stippling, and impressing with 150 illustrations. Includes finished examples.

A guide to fantasy illustration containing step-by-step instructions and case studies on wizards, heroines, worlds, storyboarding, and other aspects of the genre.

An introduction to drawing that explains how to use a variety of media, including pencil, charcoal, conte, pastels, and pen and ink; includes step-by-step instructions for thirty-six projects.