A Medieval Castle examines the architectural achievements and hidden secrets held within the walls of some of history's greatest fortifications. Explore the motives behind medieval castle building in this informative visual guide to the most fascinating fortresses in history!
"The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions and highly-detailed illustrations for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing historic ships, including perspective, using photographic reference and selecting materials. How To Draw Historical Ships features step-by-step guides to drawing such famous ships as the Cutty Sark and the Mary Rose"--Publisher's description
In Draw 1,001 Animals, award-winning artist Mark Bergin shows how simple shapes can be transformed into a vast variety of animals. There are pages looking at materials and techniques, and step-by-step projects that train the eye to deconstruct the simple shapes that go into constructing a detailed drawing.
These 1001 planes to draw will have aviation fans flying high!From the Antoinette Monoplane, designed in 1909, to contemporary space shuttle orbiters, this collection is all any artist needs to draw a range of flying machines—whether they want to capture them sitting in a hangar or up in the sky. The models include Charles Lindbergh’s legendary Spirit of St. Louis , the Airbus A380, the Boeing 314 Clipper and the Flying Fortress, the Chinook Heavy Lift Helicopter, the MIG15 Russian Fighter, the Mitsubishi A6M Reisen (Zero), the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, and several De Havillands and Lockheeds, along with early balloons, golden-age racers, modern record breakers, acrobatic aircraft, drones, and more. There’s brief explanatory text for each plane, plus advice on using clouds as composition.
The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions and highly-detailed illustrations for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing light and shade, including important techniques like hatching, cross-hatching and perspective.
The How To Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions and highly-detailed illustrations for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing coasts and coastlines, from necessary elements of technique like perspective and composition to beautiful examples such as Tintagel and the Amalfi Coast.
Portrait Drawing is an art manual offering step-by-step guides for beginners, aimed at artists who are keen to learn how to create portrait drawings in a vast variety of styles and mediums, such as watercolors, oils, and pastels.It is a guide to the entire process, including getting to grips with representing different types of faces and people, learning about the materials and concepts such as perspective and composition, and experimenting with different techniques to accomplish a range of effects. At each stage, easy-to-follow instructions and highly-detailed illustrations guide the reader and inspire them to develop their own creativity by exploring the art of portrait drawing.
Budding younger artists, parents and teachers will love this handy guide to creating easy, quick and fun collage artworks. Includes making a jellyfish, a robot, a fire-breathing dragon and much, much more!The fun and inspirational projects, clear step-by-step instructions, illustrations and photographs will introduce readers to the techniques needed to start developing their own artistic abilities.
How To Draw Rockets and Spacecraft takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. This comprehensive drawing handbook covers all aspects of drawing spacecraft, from the rockets the astronauts used to reach the Moon and the lunar rover they drove to travel across its surface to the Hubble space telescope that has allowed scientists to explore the furthest reaches of the universe.
Budding younger artists, parents and teachers will love this handy guide to creating easy, quick and fun artworks out of leaves, including: a lion head with a mane of leaves, a Halloween ghost and much, much more. The fun and inspirational projects, clear step-by-step instructions, illustrations and photographs will introduce readers to the techniques needed to start developing their own artistic abilities