Artist's Photo Reference - Wildlife


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Capturing the details is what makes wildlife painting come alive. Getting the fur, facial features and anatomy right with subjects that refuse to stand still adds to the challenge. Artist's Photo Reference: Wildlife saves the day by allowing you to concentrate on what's important - creating great art. Artist and photographer Bart Rulon provides hundreds of gorgeous full-color images showcasing nearly four dozen animals from a variety of angles. Each one has been taken with the needs of the artist in mind, ensuring that you save time, effort, money and worry. Stop wasting hours combing through endless magazines and books. You'll find all the high-quality reference photos you need right here! Rulon also provides guidelines for taking your own reference photos, plus five demonstrations in a variety of media, that illustrate how professional wildlife artists create extraordinary works of art by painting from photographs. Wildlife is the perfect addition to your reference library! Use it to save time, get inspired and create beautiful art of your own.




Imaginative Realism


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A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.




Artist’s Photo Reference - Wildlife


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This title provides artists with hundreds of high-quality colour photographs of wildlife which can be used as references in artwork. There are four step-by-step demos in major media, painted from photos in the book, with instructions on how artists used the photos. Basic anatomy is also discussed.




Artist's Digital Photo Reference - Landscapes


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1,000+ Stunning Photographs for Infinite Inspiration &break;&break;Created by artists for artists, this book/CD set blends masterful art instruction with a virtual library of more than 1,000 richly detailed digital images. From ancient rock formations and crystal-clear mountain streams to weather, skies and structures of all kinds, you'll find a range of compelling outdoor subjects to explore. Simply browse the easy-to-use CD-ROM until inspiration strikes (no special software required). You can even use your image editing software to crop, enlarge or modify the reference photo you've selected any way you choose. The possibilities are endless. &break;&break;To help you transfer your creative vision from photograph to finished painting, this guide also features 11 complete, step-by-step demonstrations in several different mediums. Each demonstration details how to combine and enhance compositional elements from photos to create strong, resonant work. There's even a section that shows you how to shoot your own reference photos and create composite photos. &break;&break;With its unique combination of instruction, inspiration and the infinite flexibility of digital photos, Artist's Digital Photo Reference will be the most-used tool in your studio.




Wildlife Artists at Work


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Drawing Wildlife


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Presents fully illustrated instructions to drawing over sixty species of wolves, foxes, bears, deer, and other woodland creatures in a variety of mediums that include pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, and colored pencil.




Colored Pencil Painting Portraits


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Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.




Wisdom, the Midway Albatross


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The true story of the albatross named Wisdom, the oldest bird in the world.




The Best of Wildlife Art 2


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Continuing in the spirit of the "wildly" popular first edition, new works from today's finest wildlife artists of every medium are featured in a celebration of art and nature. 130 full-color photos, illustrations.




Drawing America's Wildlife


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This fully revised portfolio includes field sketches, drawings of footprints, and four-colour photographs of more than 60 species of North American animals taken in their natural habitats. Rather than a drawing manual, this is a reference geared toward artists of any media interested in drawing animals. The hundreds of detailed sketches and photographs capture the true nature of the species. Flat artists can use this guide as a starting point for larger compositions, while sculptors and woodcarvers can use it to define natural-looking poses for their subjects. This replaces 1565231430.