drawing

"A light-hearted interactive guide to comics and cartoon-making that uses an activity book format and creatively stimulating prompts to teach the fundamentals of cartooning in a fun and easy-to-follow fashion"--.

Presents step-by-step directions for creating optical illusions, three-dimensional objects, emojis, artistic lettering, and more.

Teaches the fundamentals of drawing cars and trucks, giving techniques for creating shapes, lines, freehand work, three-dimensional form, space, and ideas for telling a story.

When Little Big Nate gets a new pack of crayons, his illustrations really come to life! In this delightful board book, Little Big Nate's imagination and love of drawing will inspire even the youngest readers to express themselves through artwork.

"Draw aliens and spaceships using simple shapes. Step-by-step instructions feature shapes that combine to become flying saucers, rockets, space worms, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Step-by-step drawing instructions paired with facts and information to introduce the ancient Egyptians.

Illustrated, step-by-step instructions for drawing dinosaurs.

"Drew never meant for this to happen. She didn't mean for her doodle Mike to steal the centuries-old hat. She didn't mean for Levi to steal the centuries-old baby (when he was supposed to be returning the coveted hat!). And she definitely didn't mean to send the Art Institute of Chicago into a downward spiral of art-on-art combat. She just wanted to fix a simple mistake! Now everything's gone wrong, and it's mayhem at the museum. Drew is sure she's going to become public enemy #1, wanted posters and all. But it turns out Drew and her art club might be the museum's only chance at resolution and restoration. Can they fix it before centuries worth of masterpieces are destroyed forever?"--Amazon.

Optical illusions happen when we perceive something that?s not there or that appears to differ from reality. Scientists divide them into three different categories: optical, perceptual, and cognitive. Readers will be delighted to learn how all kinds of optical illusions work and how they can amaze their friends with the experiments in this entertaining volume. They?ll learn how to make a sequence of drawings seem to come to life, how to make a drawing appear 3D, how to draw the ?impossible? Penrose triangle, and much, much more. All activities and experiments are explained step by step through comprehensible and accessible text.

"Cats are some of the oldest-known companions to humans. . . . This book explores different breeds of modern cats as well as their ancestors. . . . As they learn fun facts about cats, readers will also follow step-by-step instructions to draw their own cats"--Provided by publisher.