Anyone can draw - including you!
Learn to draw today, even if you've never drawn before! Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks, FBI-trained composite artists and drawing instructors, have taught thousands of people of all ages and skill levels how to turn out impressive realistic drawings. Discover how to:
   • Train your brain to re-create what you see through observation
   • Accurately...

Written and beautifully illustrated, this is the perfect guide to pencil and ink drawing. It explores materials and tools, different ways of handling strokes and lines, techniques for establishing and conveying tones and shadows, and technical tips. Other useful features include 28 step-by-step demonstrations, numerous exercises, and 474 black-and-white and 73 color illustrations.

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for...

"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns...

To draw or paint human figures truly, an artist must have as much understanding of bones and muscles as of form. This beautiful guide by a respected artist and teacher provides that knowledge. Realistic plates of bones and muscles show form and function, while full-color images make graphic distinctions between bone, muscle, and tendon. Drawings throughout the book emphasize fundamentals of anatomy and show simple methods of building the forms. Author...

Caricatures are fun to draw––they are comic and accessible, with a wide scope for invention. Artist and illustrator Peter Gray guides readers through the process of attaining a likeness and distorting it in imaginative ways for maximum effects. The distinctive step-by-step exercises assist aspiring caricaturists to strengthen their skills, and the handy hint sidebars will build on their knowledge about techniques and materials.

Learn to draw amazingly realistic portraits in seven easy stages. This book is the perfect guide for creating lifelike representations of the human head in graphite. Experienced artist Lance Richlin begins by explaining drawing tools and materials, shading techniques, and the important anatomical structures of the head. Following these basics, he shows how to light the subject, block in and render each feature of the face, and address a variety of...

"Are you ready to draw, but stuck for ideas on how to get started? Sketch Your Stuff shows you how to turn the everyday objects that fill your home into subjects for your sketchbook"--Back cover.

Step-by-step secrets of colored pencil technique taught by two experts.