"One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing, by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a "tangle," and you combine various tangles into patterns...

Packed with helpful examples and information, ranging from advice on materials and equipment to how to draw anatomically correct figures, The Ultimate Drawing Book is the perfect companion for budding artists or those wishing to build up their skills.

Leonardo da Vinci, the Rensaissance man, finding himself in the court of Duke Lodovico and his child bride, found it necessary to amuse this court with drwings of japes, jests, prophecies and fables. Not enjoying playing the clown for childish adults, he hid barbed moral lessons for them under the guise of his nonsense.

" ... presented across 10 highly diverse thematic categories. These drawings, produced in Indian ink and in Joan Escandell's unmistakable style, are a first-class graphical resource and are sure to bring a touch of quality to your creations and designs."--Back cover.

This engaging book will appeal to any art lover, or for that matter, any young person who's interested in drawing. It offers a step-by-step process for creating some of the most gory and villainous gothic characters around, in line with those found in the most popular graphic novels today. It covers techniques such as drawing the right angle of lighting, shading, body language, and more. You don't have to be an amazing artist to draw some of the most...

The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension and form of both man-made and natural structures, from Gothic cathedrals to flowers, from music to the human body. By also involving the reader in practical experiments, he leads with ease from simple principles to...

Perspective is key to visualizing a space and communicating an idea to others. This book explains how to tackle perspective with hand sketching - how to turn a 3D scene into a 2D drawing successfully. Written for a wide range of professionals from architects to set designers, engineers to interior designers, it explains the principles of perspective clearly and how to communicate a vision successfully. Materials and equipment, specifically with drawing...

A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.