Step-by-step instructions explain how to draw different kinds of motorcycles, including a sidecar, a racing motorcycle, and classic motorcycles, with information on their history and development.
Comic book artist Andrew Smith presents advice, example illustrations, and instructions for creating one's own comics; covers such topics as three-point perspective, body shapes and facial ages, pacing and flow in page layouts, and inking.
Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for drawing boys in a manga style, covering figures, faces, hair, hands and arms, legs and feet, footwear, and clothing.
Traces the career of artist Romare Bearden from the 1940s through the 1980s, looking at his early paintings and watercolors, collages, and large-scale murals, and landscapes, and discussing how the places he lived influenced his work.
Young readers may have seen reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and even some of his inventions, but there was much more to his genius. Leonardo was also a scientist and a sculptor. He loved the outdoors. This biography allows young readers to get to know Leonardo from his youth in the Italian countryside and then witness how his work as an adult won over noblemen and royalty who paid him for his art. Readers will be introduced to some of Leonardo's most famous and influential work and discover how it continues to influence today's art and science.
