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If you have a taste for fresh, home-grown produce, then this is the book for you. A delightful manual on keeping a vegetable garden, it is packed with tips on how to get the most from your plot.
Clear step-by-step illustrations show how to design and plant a vegetable patch, irrigate, stake and support plants and compost waste. The calendar section provides a week-by-week guide to cultivation, with advice on maintaining healthy, pest-free, organic...
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This is a comprehensive handbook for the total novice and the practiced gardener alike, covering all aspects of the subject to ensure you can reap the rewards with your home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs. Offering invaluable information on soils, fertilizers, tools and pest control, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar to enable gardeners to keep on top of their essential tasks. This all-absorbing hobby offers fantastic benefits,...
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In this companion volume to his highly successful Fundamentals of Drawing, Barrington Barber takes the aspiring artist one step further in the quest for skill and competence. If you have come this far on the journey with him you will know that the more you practice the more visual surprised you are presented with and the more problems there are to overcome. In this book, you will be shown how to find solutions to these challenges through the application...
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The human figure is one of the most popular subjects for artists, and a thorough working knowledge of anatomy is essential for those wishing to portray it successfully. With clear, annotated diagrams throughout, this is a comprehensive yet accessible art book on drawing the human anatomy; with each chapter dealing with a different part of the body, making it easy to look up different body areas.
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Still life has been a popular genre for many hundreds of years, and artists wishing to explore it can find inspirational examples from the time of the romans right up to the present day, encompassing murals from the Italian Renaissance, the lavish floral studies from the Netherlands in the early 17th century, the exuberant handling of the Impressionists, and the surprising new shapes and dimensions introduced by the Cubists and Surrealists. In The...
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Young artists can learn to draw top-quality artworks and laugh-out-loud comic strips in this easy-to-follow guide to cartoon art.
Adam Clay provides a comprehensive overview of the whole cartooning process - from telling how readers how to develop their own style, through to how to put the finishing touches to their own comic strips.
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Body Basics.
Animal Antics.
Developing Characters.
Pencils! Colour! Action!
On Location.
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In this stylishly packaged, full-color book you'll find everything you need to know about drawing manga characters - from cute chibi fairies and mini-monsters to goliath samurais and action heroines. Whatever your ability, I Can Draw Manga will teach you to create dynamic and unique figures by following its step-by-step drawing projects.
By following broken-down examples and using the practice grids inside, you will learn:
• How to use basic...
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From cute chibi characters to fearsome mecha, this book will teach readers of all abilities how to create authentic manga figures.
As popular as when it first appeared in the 1950s, manga offers adults and children endless opportunities to create dynamic characters, imaginative stories and fantastical locations. Using step-by-step drawing projects, readers will learn an array of techniques, including:
• The basics of different manga drawing styles
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The perfect start-up book for those who wish to learn how to draw. Barrington Barber, one of the world's best-selling artists, covers the basic skills needed for drawing. Barrington has an inimitable style that is truly accessible to all. This title covers all essential introductory techniques to shading, line, perspective, composition and more.
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Anyone with a little persistence and the desire can learn to draw well - this is the starting point for The Fundamentals of Drawing, a practical and comprehensive course for students of all abilities. Opportunities for practice and improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects - still life, plants, landscapes, animals, figure drawing and portraiture - and supported by demonstrations of a broad range of skills and techniques, including...
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The decision to learn to draw and paint invariably brings up a lot of questions for the beginner. "What medium should I try? What materials will I need? How do I make the first marks on a blank sheet of paper?" The most important question of all, of course, is: "Do I have any artistic talent?"
In this book Mike Chaplin answers all those questions and more, ranging from basic mark making with drawing tools, watercolors, pastels, and oils to tackling...
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The ability to draw the human form accurately and competently is a primary goal for many aspiring artists, despite the current trend in the art establishment away from figurative subjects. The book is intended for anyone who wants to discover every aspect of what for centuries was regarded as the real test of an artist's mettle. Renowned teacher and artist Barrington Barber begins his exploration with anatomy, an understanding which is vital if the...
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This book is essential for everyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. Written by teacher and established artist Barrington Barber, it contains a wealth of know-how and practical advice, supported by over 300 original illustrations. Guidance is given on how to overcome common difficulties without imposing a particular style or approach. The aim throughout is to help you discover your artistic purpose while giving you the technical tools necessary...
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This engaging and comprehensive drawing book is an excellent resource for artists, whether you are completely new to drawing or wish to build on your skills.
Artist and author Vivienne Coleman takes away the mystery of how to produce an accomplished drawing, by revealing the exact process each image undergoes from start to finish. Each project is broken down into several steps, showing the technique applied at each stage and explaining how the you...
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Beautiful and intricate, mandalas have appeared in decorative artworks and in spiritual works for thousands of years. More recently they have been celebrated as a way to practice mindfulness, with the repetition of patterns, colors and shapes inviting you find peace in the present moment. This step-by-step guide shows even total beginners how to master mandala drawing and replicate these complex patterns. Over the course of eight chapters, artist,...
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You'll be a Zentangle® master in no time with this brilliant book!
Learn how to draw a fantastic collection of tangles before bringing these together to create your own spectacular Zentangle® Inspired Artworks.
Illustrated by a Certified Zentangle® Teacher and packed with tips, techniques, and simple step-by-step instructions, this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about this fun and creative art form.
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Still life has been a popular form of art for many hundreds of years, offering a wide choice of subjects, styles, and scale. Whether you want to work outdoors or at home, with carefully detailed studies or bold sweeps of line, with classical subjects or simple objects that you might find in your home, you will never be at a loss to find inspiration.
In Drawing Still Life, Barrington Barber explores this genre in all its richness. A teacher as well...
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Ready-to-hand, varied and versatile, still-life subjects are ideal drawing material. This handy guide provides an accessible introduction to the genre, from drawing single objects such as vases and fruit, to more complex themed compositions. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced draughtsman, the clear demonstrations and step-by-step exercises in these pages will teach you to create realistic, attractive still-life drawings.
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Drawing is all about learning to really see the world around you and to translate it on to paper. In this book, author Vivienne Coleman shows how you can use just a few simple strokes, shapes and shades to draw almost any subject you like, from a piece of fruit to a detailed landscape. Each exercise is broken down into easy steps so that, even if you are new to drawing, you will be amazed at the results you can achieve. As you gain in confidence you...
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