technique

Presents twenty step-by-step projects featuring gouache painting.

Includes step-by-step instuctions for painting the galaxy using watercolor.

A complete guide to growing and caring for bonsai, covering over seventy different types of bonsai; tools, soils and containers; transplanting, wiring, watering and pruning; and more.

A guide to rendering perspective that uses illustrated exercises and explanations to explain the principles and methods of perspective and its use in shapes, shadows, angles, and proportion.

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for eleven woodcarving projects for children, and includes information about wood, woodcarving supplies, and tools.

Provides tutorials for creating manga characters, including detailed lessons on mastering basic features, bodies in motion, and showing characters' emotions.

An illustrated, step-by-step guide to drawing manga, discussing materials, basic shapes, shading, and composition, offering instruction on how to draw heads, hair, facial features, male and female figures, different body types, male heroes, school girls, and ninja, and including a review of basic manga principles, as well as a quiz and other tips on how to decide what kind of manga to create.

Describes drawing materials and basic techniques, and includes lessons with step-by-step instructions for rendering a variety of objects, animals, and people.

Looks at how to draw birds through a range of different medias including pencils, pens, and watercolors.

"[A] guide to writing fiction for comics . . . [Presents] practical instruction for everything from writing realistic dialogue to communicating your ideas to other comics professionals . . . [Includes] 23 exercises to help you put fundamental writing principles into practice, sample script formats, page-by-page outlines, scene-by-scene outlines and [more]"--Provided by publisher.