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Covers the popular genre of Chibis - wild, highly expressive characters and their faithful but volatile friends. With lessons on the body construction, expressions, and character types, as well as demonstrations that teach how to draw their critter friends, this book covers everything readers need to go from chibi fans to chibi artists.

Starting with the basics of game creation and a look at the artistic skills necessary to get started, this title offers key roles for creators - from concept artists to character animators to marketing artists and beyond. It also features interviews with video game art professionals who've worked for top gaming companies.

Based on the author's successful courses and workshops, this title helps new painters find 'what works' while providing information on the necessary tools, tips and techniques they need to create a representational painting.

A guide on creating encaustic art, an ancient medium that is increasingly popular with contemporary fine artists. It features step-by-step techniques with easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations. It includes tips and techniques gleaned from more than 60 professional artists working with the medium internationally.

Provides a complete guide to the design, sculpting and marketing of pop culture action figures, statues and collectibles. This title begins by tracing the history of toy making and collectibles and then shows how figurative sculpture is created by today's top professional technicians and artists using modern-day tools, techniques and applications.

Deals with the art of botanical drawing. This book is suitable for both aspiring and more experienced artists seeking scientific accuracy and the illusion of 3-dimension in their botanical artwork. It places an emphasis on close observation of plants and their life cycle, so that readers can deepen their understanding of the natural world.

Furries, also known as anthros (for anthropomorphic creatures) are human-animal hybrids. This title introduces readers to the basic concepts of creating half-man/half-beast characters and to the variety of styles in which they are drawn.

Shows new parents how to capture the story of their baby's first year with 40 'photo recipes' anyone can do, with any camera. This book inspires new parents and grandparents with easy, step-by-step photo ideas for capturing developmental milestones and special moments, from tiny yawns to first smiles, learning to sit up and much more.

Lays out an easy-to-follow step-by-step method of blocking out the plane structure and anatomy of the posed figure. The author's approach utilises a geometric system consisting of blocks, simple shapes and guidelines, which instructs students in a new and instinctive sculptural style.

Discusses the 'basic ingredients' and techniques used for polymer clay and jewellery-making. This book offers 20 'recipes' grouped by category: fruits, breakfast, lunch and dinner, sweets and snacks, and holiday foods.

Presents an introduction to photography. This title includes step-by-step projects for 20 types of photos, from portraits of family and pets to details, flowers, sunsets, candids, close-ups, black-and-white and more.

Cartoon animals are the essential subject matter for the cartoonists and animation artists. This book presents the fuzzy world of creatures, and shows different exotic animals, which also make for wonderfully cute characters, such as the cuddliest dogs, cats, bunnies, ferrets, badgers, walruses, zebras, sea otters, ostriches, pelicans, and more.

Teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts and background design. This title features fantasy characters and even sections on cartoon costumes, character design and cartoon backgrounds and composition.

Features more than 300 images of nature, culture and travel. In this title, topics covered include: how to discover what your subject actually is, how to select the right camera and lens, when and why to choose between colour and black and white, and creative solutions for common pitfalls.

A comprehensive guide to direct painting (characterised by bold, expressive brushwork and a painterly, atmospheric surface). It covers the history of the direct methods in both Europe and America. From there, it includes detailed step-by-step lessons and discussions on drawing structure, broken and smooth brushwork and colour development.

Presents patterns for handbags. This title provides guidance on yarn weights and types, tools and step-by-step directions for essential stitches and techniques.

Takes you on a journey of art discovery and exploration. This title looks at watercolours, with illustrations of it's visual characteristics and their effects with different paper surfaces. It focuses on acrylics, gouache, and casein. It presents the author's secrets for the difficult aspect of painting - developing a personal style and vision.

Shows how to make adorable little miniature animals, using a few simple tools and some wool roving. This title features animals including birds, bears, cats, dogs, mice, a fox, a sheep, a seal and a bunny.

Beginning with an introductory section on tools and materials, this book teaches novices how to crochet in a weekend. It includes 30 projects, ranging from belts and scarves to bags and sweaters.

Focuses on creating games that are an involving, emotional experience for the gamer. This title includes topics such as: integrating story into the game, writing the game script, putting together the game bible, creating the design document and working on original intellectual property versus working with licenses.

Shows how to successfully take portrait shots - at any moment, any place. This work explains what makes a photo memorable and how to use lighting, setting and exposure to reveal the wonder and the joy of everyday moments. It is intended for beginners, as well as professionals.

Noir is just as powerful in comics as it is in films: dark angles, shadowy, high contrast images, moody lighting, an anti-hero that struggles with moral conflicts. This work walks the reader step-by-step through layout, thumbnails, staging the action and working with actual scripts. It also contains the twenty-two page original graphic novel.

Packed with step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, and lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this title has what aspiring beginners need to start drawing convincing manga characters.

Shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object - cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere - and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.

A reference work for artists providing a system for visualizing the hand in an infinite number of positions from a multitude of angles. Drawings show anatomical structures, actions, functions, movement and foreshortening.

A demonstration of drawing techniques for capturing the movement of clothed figures, and how each action of the body affects the clothing.

The secrets and techniques of shoujo manga, the popular style of Japanese animation that is based on stories related to peer pressure, friendship, and romance, are revealed in a guide that includes information on the unique stylistic characteristics of the style and tips on drawing different character types.

One of many exhilarating artistic developments that took place during the early twentieth century, the fine art medium of collage emerged from the cubist gluing and pasting explorations of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. As a result of its experimental genesis, collage has continued to serve not only as a primary form of expression for many prominent artists, but as a principal means of evaluating and developing new creative strategies. Conceived and written by renowned artist, author, and teacher Gerald Brommer, Collage Techniques first presents the medium within the context of a wide variety of materials, including washi (oriental and rice papers) and watermedia; stained, prepared, and found papers; photographs; and fabrics and fibers. Each category of material is examined through a step-by-step demonstration and works by artists who approach collage in original and refreshing ways. The latest trends in technologically enhanced collage, including such high-tech applications as multiple photocopying and digital scanning, are also discussed. The author then explores how the elements and principles of design are used in collage, and how they in turn are employed in all the major genre, including still life, landscape, the human figure, abstraction, and nonobjective imagery. Beautifully illustrated with the work of more than eighty noted artists, including Edward Betts, Jae Carmichael, Margo Hoff, Katherine Chang Liu, and Fred Otnes, Collage Techniques is an essential reference for all artists and illustrators, regardless of their creative focus or choice of medium.