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Natural light is by far the favourite choice of most amateur, wedding and portrait photographers, but many stick to conventional approaches, leaving various possibilities of natural light unexplored. The author shares her secrets on capturing natural light in any lighting scenario, to create luminous portraits that appear lit from within.

Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. They appear in various genres of manga. This book covers chibis, character by character, according to the various subgenres in which they appear, including fantasy, occult, shoujo, fairy and action. It provides an introduction of chibi animals, chibi witches and vampires.

Suitable for aspiring comic book artists, this book teaches writing, drawing and creating comic book characters. It focuses on action-adventure comics, and touches upon other genres and styles, such as romance, humour, horror and the widely influential manga style.

A showcase of Gregory Heisler's work, one of professional photography's most respected practitioners. From the famously controversial portrait of President George H W Bush to the evocative post-9/11 Time magazine cover of Rudolph Giuliani, it reveals the creative and technical processes that led to each frame.

Offers insightful approaches to the complex subject of human anatomy. This title features three sections: the skeletal form, the muscular form, and action of the muscles and movement. It also includes illustrations that detail the movement and actions of the bones and muscles and charts that reveal the origins and insertions of the muscles.

Reveals the principles of creating full-colour realist still-life works, portraits and figure paintings. This title is suitable for art students seeking a timeless visual education.

Covers various types of animals including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favourite sidekick animals - pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. This book features step-by-step drawings that show how to capture various cartoon emotions, from cutesy-sweet to begging to scheming.

A guide to drawing Manga-style comic book art. It explains how to draw fantasy robots, monsters, mythical animals and other characters that are part of this Japanese genre. The author covers both young and more mature styles of Manga art and includes art from some top-rated Manga artists.

This revised edition covers text on artistic anatomy. It includes 75 never before published drawings from the Burne Hogarth archives and 24 pages of new material. Action studies and practical diagrams show how to render the anatomical details of the figure in motion and at rest.

Providing information and images, this is a useful tool for those interested in learning about typography. This title aims to provide access to lessons from distinguished typographers around the world through a web site.

From Snow White to Shrek, it is the design that communicates a character's personality, before a single word of dialogue is spoken. This book explains the design concepts, character hierarchy, and on how to work with script, how to maximize a pose, and how to finish a character that sparkles. It also includes advice from professionals.

This reference is the architect's guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. It covers graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, and section elevations.

Using charcoal, pen and ink, brush and paint, and pencil, this book shows how to interpret subjects in terms of light and shade. The five different categories of light and shade are examined - single-source light, double-source light, diffused light, moonlight and sculptural light.

This guide to painting in oils examines such topics as massing values, chiaroscuro and light value, handling edges and other topics.

The sequel to Drawing Cutting Edge Comics shows would-be artists how to draw the exaggerated musculature of figures in action poses, in an instructional manual that covers all aspects of extreme anatomy, the various muscle groups, the various extreme comic book types, and more. Original.

This manual offers a complete course in creating a repertoire of cartoon characters. Among the topics covered are: how to create your own characters; the basic cartoon body shape; popular cartoon expressions; developing your own style; cartoon backgrounds; and comic strip technique.

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step manga drawing instruction book from fan favourite manga artist and painter Camilla d'Errico, which features 32 lessons on illustrating cute, cool and quirky characters in the Pop Surrealist style with pencils.

The Realism Challenge leads artists through Mark Crilley's use of pencil, watercolour, pastel, and gouache to produce life-like, seemingly impossible drawings of common household objects like playing cards, leaves, and seashells that look just like photographs. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques.

Presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to create comic books, graphic novels and other sequential art forms. This book uses detailed instruction and step-by-step examples to teach key artistic methods like sketching, thumbnailing, reference gathering and using production/digital design methods.

Explains complex concepts in understandable and even humorous language. It offers tips, techniques and exercises to help amateurs in the field compose stronger, more compelling photographs.

Helps kids and aspiring artists alike learn how to create everything from puppies to aircraft, horses to skyscrapers and aliens to racing cars. In this series, the author shows how to draw sixty of his most popular drawings step by step. It also helps budding artists learn the basic movements and procedures of drawing.

Encourages amateur photographers to slow down, open their eyes, and respond to what they see to create compelling images that aren't overworked. Through accessible discussions and exercises, this book helps readers learn to use composition, available light, color, and point of view to create stunning photographs in any environment.

Suitable for amateur photographers of various levels interested in capturing better images of nature and wildlife, this book offers a complete course in photographing images of nature, including advanced digital processing techniques.

From comics to video games to contemporary fine art, the beautiful, wide-eyed girl look of shoujo manga has infiltrated pop culture and no artist's work today better exemplifies this trend than Camilla D'Errico's. In this instructional guide, she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her character design process.

Shows aspiring beginners how to draw the most popular style and widely read genre of Japanese comics.

A guide to the next big thing in wedding imagery that shows wedding photographers of various levels how to evolve past photojournalism to the higher-end, more stylised look brides want, with specific design, composition, posing and lighting techniques that makes any bride's wedding photos look like the pages of a glossy lifestyle magazine.

Focuses on both the cartoon-like critters and funny mascots that populate the shoujo (girls') style of manga and the more gritty and Gothic animals that inhabit the shounen (boys') style of manga.

The landscape is unique among subject matter - in its grandeur, complexity and colour dynamics. This guide to landscape theory and practice assists in working with what are the greatest challenges for the landscape artist, most notably simplifying complex material, selecting strong compositions and translating colour and light.