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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.

Suitable for artists, this guide captures facial expressions. It shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust and surprise.

In Venetian glassmaking, slender rods of molten glass are shaped, then cut to reveal detailed patterns: flowers, geometric shapes, dancing colours. This work shows how to re-create these designs in polymer clay. It reveals the process: how to work with polymer clay, the basics of planning and creating a cane and using colour effectively.

Suitable for photographers, this book shows how to capture subjects in innovative fresh ways - from animals and plants, to objects found in the kitchen, the supermarket, even the local tip. It offers information on equipment, exposure, light and composition.

An approach to watercolour that shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce realistic paintings.

Plot must be as much about the emotions of the characters as it is about the events of the story. This book gives this message and teaches screenwriters how to integrate plot, characterisation and exposition to make stories compelling. Using examples from movies, it demonstrates how the plot springs naturally from the characters.

Helps learn how to sculpt realistic 6"-8" figures using simple techniques. This work covers the essentials, the fundamentals of figurative modelling and how to make the tools that ensure success. It shows readers how to recreate faces and expressions, torsos, legs, and hands and feet.

By contrasting and comparing the differences and similarities between feature films and short films, this title aims to offer readers the requirements needed to make their writing crisp, sharp and compelling. It emphasises on characters, structure, dialogue and story, and dispels the 'magic formula' concept.

Provides details on an array of materials available to the artist, including canvases and papers, sizes and grounds, pigments and binders, solvents and thinners, and varnishes and preservatives. This book also contains step-by-step recipes for making art materials, including made at home or the studio paints, pastels, varnishes, gessoes, and more.

Teaches how to draw the manga face and figure, and how to tweak characters to make them part of the fantasy genre. This text is basic yet fun, the pages have been designed with younger audiences in mind, and all art and topics are useful for children. It aims at getting kids to go beyond copying to gain real drawing skills and ability.

William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modelling technique of chiaroscuro, developed by Leonardo daVinci during the High Renaissance.

The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space.Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design. The use of anthropometric data, although no substitute for good design or sound professional judgment should be viewed as one of the many tools required in the design process. This comprehensive overview of anthropometrics consists of three parts.The first part deals with the theory and application of anthropometrics and includes a special section dealing with physically disabled and elderly people. It provides the designer with the fundamentals of anthropometrics and a basic understanding of how interior design standards are established. The second part contains easy-to-read, illustrated anthropometric tables, which provide the most current data available on human body size, organized by age and percentile groupings. Also included is data relative to the range of joint motion and body sizes of children. The third part contains hundreds of dimensioned drawings, illustrating in plan and section the proper anthropometrically based relationship between user and space. The types of spaces range from residential and commercial to recreational and institutional, and all dimensions include metric conversions.In the Epilogue, the authors challenge the interior design profession, the building industry, and the furniture manufacturer to seriously explore the problem of adjustability in design. They expose the fallacy of designing to accommodate the so-called average man, who, in fact, does not exist. Using government data, including studies prepared by Dr. Howard Stoudt, Dr. Albert Damon, and Dr. Ross McFarland, formerly of the Harvard School of Public Health, and Jean Roberts of the U.S. Public Health Service, Panero and Zelnik have devised a system of interior design reference standards, easily understood through a series of charts and situation drawings. With Human Dimension and Interior Space, these standards are now accessible to all designers of interior environments.

Covers the techniques perfected by 16th and 17th century masters, studying portraits by Titian, Caravaggio, Reubens and Rembrandt and many more. This book shows demonstrations the variety of oil painting techniques perfected by the old masters.

For beginners and working professionals looking to improve their skill, this book covers every technique of expressing people, places and things in perspective, by hand or computer. Topics include: light and shade; overlapping, diffusion and convergence; and one-, two- and three- point perspective.

A guide to pastel materials and techniques. The author uses traditional soft and hard pastels, as well as oil pastels and oil sticks, showing the effects produced by each in step-by-step demonstrations. Included are ways to combine pastels with water, acrylic, alkyd gels and oil paint.

Think dinosaurs are kid stuff? Think again. Remember Walking with Dinosaurs, The Lost World and Jurassic Park? Everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs - and the more realistic, the better. Here at last is a dinosaur drawing book for adults, focusing on anatomy and encompassing the latest scientific research to show serious artists exactly how to draw the most realistic and compelling dinosaurs possible. THUNDER LIZARDS, the third instalment in the Fantastic Fantasy Characters series covers everything from the terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex, to mega-dinosaur Argentinosaurus, to wiry Velociraptors, to plodding Apatosaurus. More than 50 dinosaurs in all including avian and aquatic kinds are illustrated in this book. Miller also adds tips on drawing dynamic dinosaur sequences. So many dinosaurs in one complete drawing book? It's dino-mite!

A follow-up to Your Baby in Pictures and Your Child in Pictures, the author turns her bestselling photo recipe approach to the entire family, offering parents easy yet powerful ideas for capturing holidays, portraits of all family members (with a special chapter on teens), and the perfectly imperfect joy of everyday life with kids.

Focusing on the glamorous, over-the-top female characters of the bishouko genre, this book teaches readers how to draw the alluring eyes, flowing hair and stylish outfits that define 'bishie' characters. After an introduction to the basics, it offers readers a chance to follow along the author's in-depth step by steps.

Suitable for children aged 5-11 years old, this title is targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. It shows readers how to draw dozens of aliens with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach.

Suitable for children aged 5 to 11 years old, this title is targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of subjects. It shows readers how to draw dozens of spooky creatures with a comprehensive, step-by-step approach.

Shows photographers how to get the most out of shooting in RAW format by using the features of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.0 softwares.

Offers introduction to lighting gear, setups and techniques that amateur and semi-pro photographers will turn to. This title is suitable for photographers interested in learning to use light for more professional results.