Scott Robertson Books

This book is about the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity; the focus is firmly on helping to improve visual understanding of the world around and on techniques for representing that world. Rendering is the next step after drawing to communicate ideas more clearly. Building on what Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling wrote about in How To Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination, this book shares everything the two experts know about how to render light, shadow and reflective surfaces. This book is divided into two major the first explains the physics of light and shadow. One will learn how to construct proper shadows in perspective and how to apply the correct values to those surfaces. The second section focuses on the physics of reflectivity and how to render a wide range of materials utilizing this knowledge. Throughout the book, two icons appear that indicate either “observation” or “action.” This means the page or section is about observing reality or taking action by applying the knowledge and following the steps in creating your own work. Similar to our previous book, How To Draw, this book contains links to free online rendering tutorials that can be accessed via the URL list or through the H2Re app.

How to Draw is for artists, architects and designers. It is useful to the novice, the student and the professional. You will learn how to draw any object or environment from your imagination, starting with the most basic perspective drawing skills.Early chapters explain how to draw accurate perspective grids and ellipses that in later chapters provide the foundation for more complex forms. The research and design processes used to generate visual concepts are demonstrated, making it much easier for you to draw things never-before-seen!Best of all, more than 25 pages can be scanned via a smartphone or tablet using the new Design Studio Press app, which link to video tutorials for that section of the book!With a combined 26 years of teaching experience, Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling bring you the lessons and techniques they have used to help thousands of their students become professional artists and designers.This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to learn, or teaches others, how to draw.

Explains how the human brain interprets the visual world around us, as well as the subject of visually communicating the form of an object in easy to understand lessons through the use of drawings, photography, and more.

The book offers an authentic glimpse into the lives of those working in the entertainment industry, highlighting the stark contrast between media portrayals and the reality of their daily routines. It delves into the stress and dangers faced by team members, emphasizing the personal sacrifices made for their roles. The narrative reveals the deep bonds formed as coworkers become a family, navigating the challenges of their demanding environment together across the globe.

Ruth Parton, a trailblazing Native American horsewoman, made her mark in the early 20th century rodeo and thoroughbred racing scenes. She sacrificed her personal life to pursue her passion, becoming the World Champion Relay Racer from 1914 to 1917. Her remarkable achievements include winning 45 races at Longacre's in 1945 and being the first woman to obtain a Thoroughbred Trainer's license. Parton's life spanned significant historical events, and she was later honored in both the Cowgirl and Thoroughbred Racing Halls of Fame, highlighting her pivotal role in American sports.

Growing up on an Indian reservation during the Great Depression, the author navigates the complexities of poverty and the misconceptions surrounding Native American benefits. He shares his journey of traveling the world while grappling with the struggle to preserve tribal heritage amid the constraints imposed by a foreign government. This personal narrative highlights the challenges faced by Native Americans, revealing the deeper issues behind the perceived advantages of enrollment and the impact of these realities on their lives.

The narrative follows a man's journey after experiencing a traumatic brain injury at the age of fifty-three, forcing him to rebuild his life from scratch. Previously a successful businessman amidst a divorce, he faces the challenge of recovery far from home, with family and friends supporting him. Despite dire predictions from neurologists and complications from his injury, including pneumonia, he is encouraged to explore new interests like foreign languages and art, highlighting the resilience of the human spirit and the possibility of new beginnings.

Exploring the stark contrasts in living standards, this book urges Americans to experience life outside their comfort zones. It emphasizes the disconnect between typical American luxuries, like air conditioning and smartphones, and the reality faced by most of the global population. By advocating for a year of international work experience before turning thirty, the author aims to foster a deeper understanding of cultural differences and challenge the notion that American ways are inherently superior.

Shows you how you can build an end product of fascination, history, skill and value using low-cost materials and a minimum of tools from scratch. The text is packed with useful hints and tips which, together with a number of detailed drawings and photographs, provides a very practical guide to the art and craft of model ship-building.

Literature and theology have long been conversation partners. The great themes of human existence form the subject matter of their shared discussion. However, comedic literature has often been overlooked as a serious means to fostering such theological engagement. This book seeks to rectify this imbalance. By examining selected works of the eighteenth-century playwright and novelist Henry Fielding, we are shown that a comedic world has much to say that is of true theological significance. Recognizing the value of much traditional Fielding research, the author departs from its inherent determinism which, he believes, stifles more fruitful opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogue. Key to his desire to engage the comedic in this conversation, he introduces the interpretative tool of misplacement . By this is meant a continuous parting with the ineffable – the perpetual recognition that in comedic writing there is always a fragile sense of the other. Setting Fielding’s fiction alongside works of contemporary philosophical theology and postmodern works of fiction, the author allows common critical zones such as epistemology, ethics, mimesis, canonicity, and revelation to be investigated. In all these areas, the novel, in Fielding’s hands, displays a powerful comic resonance with a less deterministic theology, and subverts those assumed securities regarding the status of the individual in the world before God. Ultimately, the book offers the challenge of recognizing that the nature of the novel is inescapably theological and that theology itself is, indeed, fictive.