Our Sketching Club


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.




The Drawing Club


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Are you a fan of film, comics, video games and animation? Do you love to draw and tell stories? If so, you are like the hundreds of artists who come to expand and broaden their skills at Los Angeles' original character drawing workshop, The Drawing Club. Since 2002, artists from all over the LA region have gathered each Thursday night at a special place where story and character are interpreted from life. In The Drawing Club, many of these professional working artists and the club's founder, Bob Kato, will teach you how to think differently about drawing characters from life€”and, in true Drawing Club spirit, have a good time doing it! Whether you're a full-time commercial artist, a hobbyist, or you just like to draw, the exercises in The Drawing Club are for you! - Learn how to translate the world from 3D to 2D. - Tell a story through your work. - Gain insights into various materials. - Examine comic approaches to drawing. - Discover how to develop your voice as an artist. - An impressive gallery showcases the fine work and inspiring characters from many of the master artists and animators working today!




Tate: Sketch Club Urban Drawing


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Urban sketching has become one of the biggest art trends of the last decade, with artists preferring to capture a scene on location rather than relying on a photograph. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, Sketch Club: Urban Drawing is your essential guide to putting your drawing skills into practice on location. You'll learn how to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes. Packed with all the energy and inspiration of a drawing group, this is the ideal book for anyone looking to take their urban drawing further. Perfect your urban drawing skills and develop your own unique style with professional urban sketcher, Phil Dean. Chapters include: - Loosening Up - Building a Scene - Adding Contrast - Taking it Further - Finishing Touches




Can I Go and Play Now?


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The world of education is an amazing and rewarding world to be in, but there is a sense among many that work within it that there is something not quite right, that all is not well. In this book, Greg Bottrill explores how he ensures that, in his Early Years setting, continuous provision enables children. He shares his Early Years pedagogy through the ′3Ms′ and explains how to apply these in the classroom. Greg also explores the definition of play – what it is and what it isn’t – and the challenging role of the Early Years teacher. This book shares good practice in: early reading and the joy of reading early writing development boys writing the nature of outdoor play and how to make this truly ‘outdoor’ the role of parents in child development mathematics in play when and how to do intervention work with children how to get Headteachers and centre managers on board.




Urban Drawing


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Hone your illustration skills with this book featuring 20 step-by-step exercises. Published in collaboration with London's Tate Museum and featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, this book is your essential guide to putting your drawing skills into practice on location. Learn how to bring dynamism and energy to your cityscapes, discover how to capture people in busy scenes, and experiment with different media and materials. You’ll also find out how to fix common mistakes that many illustrators encounter as they hone their skills.




Tate: Sketch Club


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Learn how to construct a figure, capture gesture and bring depth, energy and movement into your work with the expert guidance of Sketch Club: Life Drawing. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, this book will give you the confidence to ace your human figure drawing skills, both inside and outside the studio. It will help you know where to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes. Hone your skills, build your confidence, and most importantly, get drawing!




Fashion Illustration School


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Offering instructions for techniques used by professional illustrators, this book explains the methodology of drawing fashion. It demonstrates some of the best ways to create detailed fashion illustrations in a variety of media, teaching the reader about drawing, rendering and following logical steps in depicting fabric surface textures and folds.




Urban Watercolor Sketching


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A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes, and luminous hues of watercolor . This lushly illustrated resource teaches artists on the go how to sketch with watercolor, rendering subjects efficiently and without inhibitions. Readers are guided through all aspects of the medium, from fundamental techniques including wet-on-wet, glazing, and washes; materials and supplies; and little known tips and tricks for getting the most out of watercolor (for example, just sprinkling a little salt on your painting creates a texture that's impossible to achieve with a brush.) A strong focus color theory provides a solid foundation for enhancing drawings with vibrant hues.




An Urban Sketcher's Galway


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Galway artist Roisin Cure presents snapshots of life in the City of the Tribes in bold ink and vibrant watercolor. Her sketches show the beautiful details of Galway's pubs, the musicians and buskers, the exquisite medieval stonework, the marine environment, the vibrant nightlife culture, and the local colorful characters. These striking pictures are accompanied by recollections of conversations the artist had while sketching. This book is a unique souvenir of Galway, of a city that is famous for the arts and yet has so little in the way of visual art. It is a very timely book, released in advance of Galway 2020, when the city celebrates being European Capital of Culture.




Beauty in Bloom


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Beauty in Bloom is an inspirational, eclectic and stylish compendium of all things beautiful from Natalie Bloom, the elegant founder of Bloom Cosmetics. From the love of makeup to inner beauty, nature to notebooks, from perfumes to Paris, Beauty in Bloom is about making us look beautiful, feel beautiful and above all be inspired by beauty. Featuring striking illustrations by rising young illustrative star, Rebecca Wetzler, this is a quirky, personal and totally gorgeous little book.