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BARRON'S How to Draw Fantasy Females  up to 17% off!   
Graphic artists who open this scintillating tutorial will discover the beauty secrets of cartoon bombshells and learn how to give them active roles in memorable stories. Step-by-step illustrations show the basics of female anatomy and proportion, different ways to render poses and body shapes, and methods to exaggerate or ...

DOVER Anatomy and Drawing  up to 17% off!   
This instructive book presents excellent annotated line drawings of anatomical structure for the beginning artist, explaining the subject in simple terms, identifying parts of the body and demonstrating physical activities through the author's sketches. Chapters cover the human skeleton, head and neck, torso, arm, hand, leg, foot, and musculature. ...

DOVER Art Anatomy Simplified  up to 26% off!   
Here are the keys to anatomy and figure construction, delivered in a direct, uncomplicated, and highly visual manner. More than 350 drawings illustrate these lessons.

Author: Charles Carlson
Format: paperback, 48 pgs., 8 3/8 in. x 11 in.
Publisher: Dover, 2006

DOVER Constructive Anatomy  up to 26% off!   
An anatomical reference guide for the working artist, sculptor and student, this volume graphically shows important parts of the human body, both in motion and in repose--hands, wrist, thumbs, fingers, forearm, arm, armpit, shoulder, neck, head, eye, nose, ears, mouth, chin, trunk, pelvis, hip, thigh, leg, knee, ankle, foot, ...

DOVER Drawing the Female Form  up to 17% off!   
An excellent reference from one of the foremost figure-drawing teachers, this classic manual provides painters, illustrators, and sculptors with invaluable instructions on rendering the intricacies of the female figure. Bridgman's 32 black-and-white photographs and 37 progressive drawings offer students and other beginning artists a suitable alternative to the use ...

DOVER Drawing the Living Figure  up to 17% off!   
In this highly praised guidebook, versatile and influential artist/teacher Joseph Sheppard introduces an innovative approach to drawing the human form. Beginning by reviewing the basics of anatomy, he makes his principal focus the specifics of surface anatomy. Rather than depicting in detail the muscles and bones that lie beneath ...

DOVER Fifty Figure Drawings  up to 26% off!   
Assembled by a prominent artist and teacher, this inspiring, invaluable collection consists of the work of leading students from the finest American art schools in the early 20th century. Fifty drawings of undraped figures offer exquisite examples of differing styles, techniques, and artistic expressions.

Paperback, 80 pgs., 6 1/2 in. ...

DOVER Figure Sketching for Beginners  up to 26% off!   
As author Len A. Doust enthusiastically states, if a drawing "is not alive, it is a failure." With this practical, encouraging guide, even the most novice sketchers can learn how to capture the vitality and character of their models. Clear instructions and 23 step-by-step illustrations highlight all students need ...

DOVER Figures and Faces  up to 17% off!   
A sketcher's handbook. Veteran artist, illustrator, and teacher shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects. A brief review of anatomical structure is followed by detailed illustrations and clear instructions for drawing people of different ages and ethnic groups. ...

DOVER Great Drawings of Women: From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century  up to 17% off!   
This stunning gallery of master drawings depicts women in a wide array of styles and settings. Great Drawings of Women: From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century contains 102 illustrations, 16 in full color, including superb art by da Vinci, Rubens, Dürer, Raphael, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, Corot, Manet, Sargent, ...

DOVER Great Portrait Drawings and Prints  up to 17% off!   
Choice, original collection of 101 stunning portraits (16 in color) by a select group of world-famous artists, among them Peter Paul Rubens' Young Woman with Crossed Hands, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Aurea Catena (Portrait of Mrs. Morris), and Toulouse-Lautrec's Portrait of Jane Avril. Also includes works by Henry Matisse, Giovanni ...

DOVER Heads, Features and Faces  up to 16% off!   
There is probably no better instructor of the correct rendering of heads, features and faces than George R. Bridgman, who brings to the subject both his expertise as an artist and his 50-year experience as lecturer and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. Throughout the book, ...

DOVER How to Draw Faces  up to 16% off!   
This easy-to-follow guide, with its step-by-step diagrams, makes it a snap to learn the basics of sketching the human face. By combining circles, ovals, squiggly lines and other shapes, would-be cartoonists can create realistic portraits of young girls modeling a variety of hairstyles; boys in baseball hats, curly-headed babies, ...

DOVER Human Anatomy for Art Students  up to 26% off!   
The most concise, accessible guide to depicting the human body, this volume features illustrations and cross-sections that help students achieve the most precise visual re-creation of human form and motion. Subjects include the skeleton, the coverings and regions of the body, the upper and lower extremities, movements of the ...

DOVER Life Drawing in Charcoal  up to 17% off!   
This unique guide offers a bold, innovative approach to drawing from life. Instead of teaching the traditional method of building up a drawing from lines, leaving mass and tone for later, noted art instructor Douglas R. Graves takes precisely the opposite tack. The student is encouraged to begin seeing ...

DOVER Muybridge's Human Figure in Motion: CD-ROM and Book  up to 26% off!   
This remarkable collection features 166 black-and-white, stopped-action photographic sequences by the forefather of motion pictures. Men and women perform a variety of motions – running, jumping, lifting, and more.

Essential for artists, illustrators, and animators, these strips can be put to numerous imaginative uses.

This book comes with a CD-ROM containing ...

DOVER Old Master Portrait Drawings; 47 Works  up to 16% off!   
Here are 47 masterpieces of the art of portrait drawing, selected from the work of an elite group of artists who represent the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Among the artists are Andrea Mantegna, Filippino Lippi, Raphael, Dürer, ...

DOVER The Human Figure  up to 16% off!   
This great classic is still unrivalled for its clear, detailed presentation of thousands of fundamental features of the human figure. Every element of the body is carefully and concisely pointed out in the text. Even more helpful are the 430 pencil and charcoal drawings that illustrate each feature so ...

HAND BOOKS PRESS Virtual Pose Children & Teens  up to 26% off!   
For professional and student artists alike, Virtual Pose Children & Teens is the next best thing to working with young, live models, and is the ultimate reference for amateur children’s books illustrators who do not have access to studio sessions.

Ranging from action to classic, standing to reclining, these carefully ...

HAND BOOKS PRESS Virtual Pose Duo  up to 17% off!   
Virtual Pose Duo premiers “paired” models, working harmoniously together, posed in contemporary and classic themes. There are six models paired in male/female, male/male, and female/female combination poses.

The 80 pg. book features all 35 poses from the CD-ROM, each clearly laid out in sequence of seven views per two page ...

HARPERCOLLINS Action Anatomy: For Gamers Animators and Digital Artists  up to 10% off!   
Experience real human body structures and movements with this indispensable guide to the digital expression of anatomical mechanisms. Impressive graphic details, along with clear explanations, explore the character animation of each body part and movement as illustrated for art directors, designers, and animators.

Packed with 650 full-color computer-graphic visuals, and ...

IMPACT Face Off: How To Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits  up to 26% off!   
This authoritative guide to the art of comic portrait drawing provides easy-to-learn techniques and 30 step-by-step demonstrations that make drawing caricatures fun and easy.

Inside you'll learn to draw specific features for the front, ¾, and profile views, as well as how to color your art. There's even a gallery ...

IMPACT Fantastic Realms: Draw Fantasy Characters, Creatures, and Settings  up to 26% off!   
Within this book’s pages you will discover the secrets to sketching, drawing, and coloring wondrous worlds – realms filled with creatures friendly and foul, beautiful princesses and stealthy magic-users, ancient ruins and dragons’ lairs.

Begin your journey by following the steps inside, which will guide you from simple sketches to ...

IMPACT Girl to Grrrl Manga: How To Draw the Hottest Shoujo Manga  up to 26% off!   
THE book on shoujo manga, from the top female creator working in American comics today!

From the creative mind of superstar comic artist Colleen Doran, Girl to Grrrl Manga is your invitation to the drama, high romance and dreamlike settings of shoujo manga!

Page after page of step-by-step instruction lets you ...

NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHERS Draw Caricature  up to 17% off!   
Teach yourself to draw amusing caricatures with this comprehensive guide. The book is written and illustrated by three professional caricaturists and cartoonists whose works have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world.

Authors: Steve Chadburn, Noel Ford, and Pete Dredge
Format: paperback, 96 pgs., 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.
Publisher: ...

NORTH LIGHT Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step  up to 15% off!   
Portraits not only capture a likeness, but offer for generations to come a glimpse into the subject's like. Sounds like quite a challenge. But with Ann Kullberg's help, it's not as difficult as you might think to create life like colored pencil portraits. Using her own beautiful portraiture for ...

NORTH LIGHT Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing  up to 16% off!   
Now you an get all the drawing help you need in one convenient place. Best-selling author Lee Hammond is known for her clear, basic methods for drawing nearly any subject. This giant book brings together the best projects from her other titles into one super-sized guide. You will find ...

NORTH LIGHT Portraits from Life in 29 Steps  up to 16% off!   
Portraits from Life in 29 Steps presents an elegant, simple and direct procedure for painting a convincing portrait in 29 logical steps. At the heart of this book are two complete portrait-painting demonstrations; each of the 29 steps is descriptively titled, explained and illustrated to show the clear progression ...

NORTH LIGHT The Art of Portrait Drawing  up to 26% off!   
Every artist dreams of drawing people with the same skill used by the Old Masters. In this guide, professional portrait artist Joy Thomas reveals the secrets to classical drawing. The Art of Portrait Drawing features full-length, step-by-step portraits and easy-to-follow instruction for drawing accurately, working with models and using ...

NORTH LIGHT Virtual Pose 2  up to 16% off!   
Virtual Pose 2 is the second installment in what is fast becoming the ultimate visual reference series for drawing the human figure. Whether you are a professional artist or a student, this set is the next best thing to working with a live model--and the ultimate for amateur artists ...

NORTH LIGHT Virtual Pose 3  up to 5% off!   
The next best thing to working with a live model, Virtual Pose 3 provides you with an accurate and convenient method of viewing the human form--without needing access to a live model and studio sessions. Digital artist Mario Henri Chakkour has created a CD-ROM and companion book that features ...

ON AIR VIDEO Anatomy for Artists: Man in Motion -- DVD  up to 29% off!   
It's one thing to know the parts of the body. It's another to put that knowledge into action. This informative DVD takes the artist to the next level by examining a variety of human activities including running, walking, jumping, climbing, lifting, throwing, and more.

Working from the live model and ...

ON AIR VIDEO Anatomy for Artists: The Human Head -- DVD  up to 29% off!   
This DVD is designed to assist the artist and art student in rendering the human head. The program addresses a number of critical topics:

  • Bones of the cranium and face
  • Muscles of the head and their functions
  • Surface forms that define the face
  • Canons of proportion of the head
  • Characteristics that differentiate gender and ...

PUTNAM Drawing People  up to 20% off!   
The user-friendly drawing guide for all would-be artists who need only a nudge and a friendly guidance to get their creative juices flowing. Completely illustrated, with step-by-step instructions designed specifically for the beginner. Paperback book measures 9.92 in. x 7.51 in., 96 pages.
ISBN 039951385X. Perigee.

PUTNAM Drawing the Head & Figure  up to 20% off!   
A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. It offers step-by-step procedures with simplified techniques and scores of brand-new hints and helps to approach the problem of figure drawing in such a way as to give the student something he/she can understand and remember. Paperback book measures 8.14 in. x ...

ROCKPORT Essential Fashion Illustration  up to 10% off!   
This book’s aim is to submerge the reader in the world of illustration. The first section ranges from how to start to draw a human figure to the techniques to stylize and synthesize it. This section provides a large amount of figures in different poses, as well as hands ...

SEARCH PRESS Drawing Hands & Feet  up to 15% off!   
It is generally thought that hands and feet are the hardest parts of the body to portray effectively in drawings, paintings and sculptures. Giovanni Civardi demystifies the process of capturing both with this inspirational, easy-to-follow guide, Drawing Hands & Feet: Form, Proportion, Gestures and Action. Paperback book measures 8 ...

STERLING How to Draw Portraits  up to 15% off!   
Everything you need to know to achieve a realistic portrait is here, including how to make flat drawings look three-dimensional, comfortably pose subjects, and work with structure, perspective and proportion. Practice blending, hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling. Try working from photographs and with live models. Plenty of hints are included ...

STERLING Secrets to Drawing Heads  up to 17% off!   
It’s the first thing anyone looks at when there’s a figure in a painting: the details of the human head and face. There’s far more to creating an accurate portrait than meets the eye, and that’s exactly what this visual guide teaches artists.

The study starts with the basic shapes, ...

TEACHING ART The Art of Portrait Drawing DVD  up to 26% off!   
In this DVD, professional artist Joy Thompson reveals classical drawing secrets while teaching foolproof composition skills. Work your way through a portrait study from life and create a realistic likeness using massing techniques that establish form with a minimal use of line.

While this unique drawing demonstration is a “must ...

WALTER FOSTER How To Series: Drawing  up to 29% off!   
Each Drawing book in the How to Draw and Paint Series focuses on a particular subject, explaining the materials needed to get started as well as the basic techniques and special effects used to develop drawings to their fullest. Simple step-by-step instructions and clear demonstrations make it easy for ...

WATSON-GUPTILL Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters  up to 10% off!   
This classic book, whose foremost author was one of the great artistic anatomy teachers of the twentieth century, is an invaluable instructor and reference guide for any professional, amateur, or student artist who depicts the human form.

The book presents work by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, and other ...

WATSON-GUPTILL Classical Drawing Atelier  up to 26% off!   
Classical Drawing Atelier is an atelier in a book—and the master is Juliette Aristides, a classically trained artist. On every page, Aristides uses the works of Old Masters and today’s most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting.

Author: Juliette Aristides
Format: hardback, 160 ...