How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces


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How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces is a fun-for-all-ages, comprehensive guide to drawing simple, beautiful, female faces. With clear, easy to follow step-by-step directions, fun drawing prompts, full color examples and tons of encouragement, drawing pretty faces has never been easier! In addition to 70+ pages of instructions and fun, engaging activities, budding artists can further hone their skills by rendering the bonus coloring pages! This is a great addition to any artists' drawing library and is truly fun and useful for all ages. The book also has an accompanying e-course for those wishing to further their study and practice in the art of drawing fan, fabulous faces. Go to AwesomeArtSchool.com to learn more!




How to Draw MORE Fun, Fab Faces


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A fun and comprehensive guide to drawing simple, beautiful, female faces from the profile and 3/4 view




How to Draw Fun Fab Fellas


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This book is a comprehensive, easy, fun and accurate guide to drawing male faces in three positions: forward-facing, 3/4 view and profile. Step-by-step methods for coloring and shading your handsome guys are included too! Want more drawing and coloring instruction? Check out the Author's accompanying e-course on AwesomeArtSchool.com!




How to Draw AMAZING Hands


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Drawing hands is extraordinarily difficult, even for accomplished artists. This book teaches you a very simple and straightforward way to draw truly amazing, completely realistic-looking hands, and all in 6 simple steps! In her typical, laid back, easy-to-understand and conversational teaching style, Artist Karen Campbell once again makes it both easy and enjoyable for artists of all abilities to first understand and then successfully execute even the most hand difficult drawings in this book. Using a combination of humor and easy-to-follow steps, Karen teaches you ways to develop muscle memory, sharpen your observational skills, and draw and shade realistic hands in graphite. The 25 different hand gestures include a wide variety of poses from people of all ages (from babies to old men) so there is literally something in here for everyone. Artists of all abilities will also learn to successfully and easily create the look of those troublesome hand details that seem to always pop up like wrinkles, veins, creases, bumps, bones, tendons, arm hair, long nails and more...and all with just a handful of supplies! Never heard of Elephant Skin or The "Poodge" show up on people before? Well get ready, because not only are you about to learn what those are, you're about to learn how to draw them too!




Fabulous Figures


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Start with a heart . . . and create beautiful in-proportion people! Aspiring artists who feel intimidated at drawing figures will love Jane Davenport's amazingly easy technique, developed while she worked as a fashion illustrator. It involves using equal-size hearts to build the body's structure, and the results are astounding. Jane lays out the basics and walks you through working with different mediums; drawing the head, face, clothing, hair, and features; and constructing figures inspired by fashion, fantasy, life drawing, and more.




You Can Draw in 30 Days


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Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find: Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing 75 student examples to encourage you in the process




Draw More Furries


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Draw Fabulous Furries! Furries are so much fun to draw, people have been doing so for thousands of years. By crossing animal traits with human, you can create some fantastic characters with distinct personalities. The authors of Draw Furries bring you more of the best step-by-step lessons for creating anthropomorphic characters. You'll learn everything from furry anatomy, facial expressions and poses to costumes, coloring and settings! You'll also learn how to create characters that convey the various personalities and spirits of the animals they resemble. Draw More Furries is packed with 20 new furries, "scalies," and mythological creatures with lessons covering everything from drawing mouths and muzzles to paws, feathers and fur. The anthropomorphic creatures you can create with these easy-to-learn lessons are limitless! But you won't just stop there. Lindsay and Jared take you to the next level by showing you how to build a scene from start to finish. From dinosaur warriors to snow leopard pirates, you'll be drawing all kinds of fun, furry friends in no time! • Loaded with more than 50 step-by-step demonstrations for a variety of characters from furries to mythological creatures. • Extended demonstration shows how to build a scene from initial concept drawings and character development to a final colored scene. • See a variety of different styles of art from guest artists who share their processes for creating lively characters.




Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces


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Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits. With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including: Pencil Marker Pen Watercolor Acrylic paint Ink Pastel Ephemera Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.




Mixed Media Magic


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In Mixed Media Magic, artist Karen Campbell shares her excitement and vast knowledge of mixed media and art journaling techniques by providing ten fun, increasingly challenging, step-by-step creative projects. Karen also shares tips and information about art supplies, creative tools, up-cycling, ways to save money, stay inspired and more!




Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists


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Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level.