Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1992-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0679734155
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.
Author : Mark Crilley
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 039958126X
From the best-selling artist and YouTube art instructor, this book features step-by-step lessons that show you how to draw professional-quality portraits, landscapes, travel sketches, and animals using only two ordinary pencils. Great art doesn't have to be expensive. For the cost of a regular graphite writing pencil and an equally ordinary black colored pencil, you can create drawings worthy of framing and displaying. In this straightforward, aspiring artist's guide to rendering a variety of popular subjects with only two pencils, artist and art instructor Mark Crilley presents a direct, approachable, and achievable method for drawing just about anything. The Two-Pencil Method breaks down Crilley's techniques across six chapters of five lessons each. In each lesson, you'll learn how the two-pencil method can add depth and shading, allowing you to create bold and distinctive drawings that go beyond mere sketchbook doodles. The book moves from a primer on drawing basics to step-by-step examples of still lifes, landscapes, animals, travel sketches, and portraits. With each chapter, Crilley's confident and encouraging voice and expert insights demonstrate how to achieve stunning artistic results from the simplest of art materials.
Author : Carol Beggy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501392220
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author : William Henry Fox Talbot
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Photography
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pencil of Nature" by William Henry Fox Talbot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Paul Calle
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486846334
A showcase of pencil works by a master of the medium, this newly updated volume explains Calle's process and provides a gallery of demonstrations and inspiration for intermediate to advanced artists.
Author : Elizabeth Suneby
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1525300903
A boy, a science project and an answer to a critical problem. During monsoon season in Bangladesh, Iqbal’s mother must cook the family’s meals indoors, over an open fire, even though the smoke makes her and the family sick. So when Iqbal hears that his school’s science fair has the theme of sustainability, he comes up with the perfect idea for his entry: he’ll design a stove that doesn’t produce smoke! Has Iqbal found a way to win first prize in the science fair while providing cleaner air and better health for his family at the same time? Sometimes it takes a kid to imagine a better idea — make that an ingenious one!
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 1879
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Stationery
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Author : George Hastings McNair
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Logic
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Author : Cocomaru,
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1462924344
Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to make incredibly realistic colored pencil drawings in 10 easy step-by-step lessons. Follow along as author Cocomaru explains how to depict highlights, shadows and refractions, how to render photorealistic textures, and how to create a sense of depth in your drawings that makes them appear truly real! Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques provides all the information needed to get you started—which materials to get, how to set up your workspace, how to prepare the underdrawings, and all of Cocomaru's trademark techniques on how to achieve maximum realism! Learn to draw objects with sparkling realism, for example: A sliced orange with juicy, mouthwatering sections A glossy blue marble with a beautiful light refraction A kinetically sloshing glass of red wine An adorably fluffy cat and a sweet-looking corgi And much more! You'll begin with simple drawings and progress to more advanced ones as you learn all the amazing techniques for creating photorealistic colored pencil drawings!
