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Botanical Drawing in Color

Author : Wendy Hollender

Publisher : Watson-Guptill

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 49,41 MB

Release : 2010-07-20

Category : Art

ISBN : 0823007065

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Book Description

A thorough immersion into the world of scientifically accurate, three-dimensional, and artistically rendered natural botanical illustration. The step-by-step instructions in this invaluable guide, written by one of the nation’s leading experts in the field, Wendy Hollender, will grow your artistic ability, whether you’re just broaching this unique skill or are already an expert. Each lesson in the book increases in complexity to build your skill set in a clear, concise, and accessible way. With a focus on the natural world through the botanical life-cycle, each project is not only a technical study, but a beautiful piece of artwork in and of itself. In this book, you will learn: • Single light source toning technique • Principles of perspective for drawing flowers • The fundamentals of plant anatomy • Colored pencil techniques and color theory of the natural world



The Joy of Botanical Drawing

Author : Wendy Hollender

Publisher : Watson-Guptill

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 40,15 MB

Release : 2020-04-07

Category : Art

ISBN : 1984856723

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A gorgeous, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden. Wendy Hollender is known for her vivid, detailed, and inspiring illustrations and in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, she helps you take your art to the next level by sharing her perfected techniques through short lessons that start simple, then build on the basics with easy-to-use and clear step-by-step illustrations. Using colored pencils and watercolor pencils, Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate botanical portraits of a spiraling pine cone, a spiky chestnut, a fuchsia-tined radish, a graceful morning glory, and many more. From colorful leaves to delicate petals to textured bark and slender stems, The Joy of Botanical Drawing will give you the skills to complete lifelike drawings while also enjoying nature and the mindfulness of a regular drawing practice.



Drawing in Color - Animals

Author : Lee Hammond

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 184 pages

File Size : 25,21 MB

Release : 2002-08-08

Category : Art

ISBN : 1600615015

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This, the fourth book in the Drawing in Color series, teaches readers how to draw realistic animals with colored pencils. Lee Hammond's amazing easy-to-follow techniques enable you to render a variety of wonderful animals, from cats and dogs to horses, squirrels, tigers and more. These skills can be used to draw any kind of mammal accurately. Hammond's special graphing system makes all the difference, helping to translate the animal poses seen into drawings on the page. You'll also learn other important illustration techniques, including layering, blending and shading. Additional guidelines help duplicate realistic eyes, ears, mouths, feet, fur, and hide. You'll feel like you can draw from the start with achievable examples, even if you're a first-timer.



Color Drawing

Author : Michael E. Doyle

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 633 pages

File Size : 32,55 MB

Release : 2011-02-17

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1118046285

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Book Description

The Third Edition of Michael Doyle's classic Color Drawing remains the ultimate up-to-date resource for professionals and students who need to develop and communicate design ideas with clear, attractive, impressive color drawings. Update with over 100 pages, this Third Edition contains an entirely new section focused on state-of-the-art digital techniques to greatly enhance the sophistication of presentation drawings, and offers new and innovative ideas for the reproduction and distribution of finished drawings. Color Drawing, Third Edition Features: * A complete body of illustrated instructions demonstrating drawing development from initial concept through final presentation * Finely honed explanations of each technique and process * Faster and easier ways to create design drawings * Over 100 new pages demonstrating methods for combining hand-drawn and computer-generated drawing techniques Step-by-step, easy-to-follow images will lead you through digital techniques to quickly and easily enhance your presentation drawings.



Blippi Coloring Book

Author : Blippi

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 50 pages

File Size : 46,43 MB

Release : 2015-12-14

Category :

ISBN : 9781522730330

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Book Description

Blippi Coloring Book - Machines & Animals Children will love coloring all 24 pages of the machines and animals within this book. The images are easy enough for toddlers but contain enough detail for older children to enjoy coloring as well! The MACHINES in this book are: Airplane, Backhoe, Space Ship, Train, Submarine, Monster Truck, Tractor, Boat, Excavator, Garbage Truck, Fire Truck, and Police Car. The ANIMALS in this book are: Pig, Fish, Elephant, Lion, Unicorn, Monkey, Parrot, Giraffe, Horse, Shark, and Tiger! *BONUS BLIPPI PAGE* Blippi is the host of his educational children's video series where he teaches about numbers, colors, shapes, ect. while combining with things children love like MACHINES & ANIMALS!



The Colored Pencil Manual

Author : Veronica Winters

Publisher : Courier Dover Publications

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 48,50 MB

Release : 2018-08-15

Category : Art

ISBN : 0486833305

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Book Description

Experienced artists looking to master a new medium will relish this comprehensive guide to using colored pencils by the author of How to Color Like an Artist. Step-by-step demonstrations with photos and directions explain shading, blending, color theory, more.



Drawing in Color

Author : Kathryn Temple

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 26,40 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781579908218

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Book Description

Provides hands-on activities that teach the basic elements of drawing, including shapes, shading techniques, creating perspective, and composing.



Dynamic Color Drawing

Author : Judy Martin

Publisher : Northlight

Page : 143 pages

File Size : 35,97 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780891343141

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Book Description

The author provides expertise on her advocacy of applying color to drawings so as to bring out the artist's intent



Botanical Drawing

Author : Wendy Hollender

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 35,10 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Botanical illustration

ISBN : 9780989343312

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Book Description

"Botanical Drawing, A Beginner's Guide" and Botanical Drawing Sketchbooks" use a unique spiral binding that allows you to open the book to add and remove paper. You can purchase re-fills of Legion Stonehenge Aqua 140 lb. hot pressed water color paper to use with both books.Once you have practiced in the Beginner's Guide with the paper in the book, I recommend you purchase the hot pressed watercolor paper to use for the color exercises. You can put the watercolor paper right inside the book and re-do the exercises on the good paper!In the Sketchbooks you can take out finished work and put in new blank paper to continue re-using the sketchbook without having to get a new sketchbook or cut your finished art out of this book. You can also take out the sketch pages to display and then return them to the book!



Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics

Author : Cynthia Knox

Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 11,86 MB

Release : 2020-03-03

Category : Art

ISBN : 1633228452

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Discover the secrets to creating beautiful, realistic colored pencil drawings with Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics. *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority* Whether you’re a novice or an accomplished artist just getting started with colored pencil, Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics provides you with the instruction and inspiration you need to master this versatile medium. By starting with the necessary supplies and basic techniques, this colorful, comprehensive guidebook gives you a solid foundation so you can work through each stunning project with ease and joy. Award-winning artist Cynthia Knox first teaches the fundamentals: tools and materials, colored pencil techniques, color basics, the basic shapes drawing method, the grid method, using photo references, and more. She explores blending, burnishing, and layering colors, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your own works of art in colored pencil. After learning the basics of drawing in colored pencil, move on to the step-by-step lessons, which demonstrate how to draw strikingly realistic still life and animals. Each drawing project in this 10.25 × 13.75–inch book focuses on a specific technique. Included drawing projects are a fall leaf, a colorful cupcake, a butterfly on a flower, a pony, a bowl of cherries, and a puppy—all in gorgeous, realistic detail. A reference photograph is used for each project, so you can learn how to transform your everyday photographs into beautiful pieces of art with only paper and colored pencil. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and coloring techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for realistic colored pencil drawings.