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Figure Drawing and PortraitureIn Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal
From an award-winning English artist and teacher whose work was exhibited at the esteemed Paris Salon and London's Royal Academy comes a beautifully designed guide to drawing the face and figure. The author of such artistic references as "The Technique of Pencil Drawing" and "The Art of the Pencil," Borough Johnson also illustrated many famous poems and novels, including Longfellow's "Evangelin…
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- 9780486136752
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- 1 online resource (160 pages)
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Harter's Picture Archive for Collage and Illustration
Men in strange flying machines Mysterious veiled women Exotic animals, birds, insects, plants Eerie faces Wonderful technological devices Unusual landscapes, cityscapes, moonscapes Children, couples, Victorian buildings, and interiors Over 300 authentic and strikingly visual nineteenth-century engravings selected from rare periodicals, books, and catalogs, dating mostly from 1870 to 1900…
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- 9780486136677
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- 1 online resource (192 pages)
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Drawing and Sketching in Pencil
This classic guide offers clear, concise instruction in the basics as well as the finer points of pencil drawing. Appropriate for beginning and intermediate students, it features sixty-six well-chosen illustrations that encompass a wide range of subjects mainly architectural, but also people, animals, and landscapes and demonstrate a tremendous variety of techniques. An architect, painte…
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- 9780486136486
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- 1 online resource (208 pages)
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The Codex Nuttall
The only value-priced, full-color edition of the pre-Columbian Mexican (Mixtec) book. Features 88 color plates of kings, gods, heroes, temples, sacrifices, and more. New introduction.
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The Drawings of Heinrich Kley
This is a new unabridged edition of the two sketchbooks by Heinrich Kley, one of the greatest cartoonists and social satirists of modern times. Kley's drawings combine savage humor that cuts to the bone with unbelievably brilliant draughtsmanship. Several of these sketches have been reprinted time and again, and probably everyone has seen at least one. But until now the main body of Kley's work…
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- 9780486136615
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- 1 online resource (128 pages)
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The Complete Guide to Artistic Anatomy
This systematic presentation illustrates the depiction of bones and muscles, both in detailed close-ups and in larger groups. It starts by discussing the proportions of a human adult and proceeds to define the principal terms used in describing anatomy. Subsequent illustrations depict the skull, bones, muscles, veins, and other aspects of the human figure. In addition to captions, the images ar…
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- 9780486136561
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- 1 online resource (176 pages)
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An Edwardian Bestiary87 Color Plates
A prodigiously talented pair of English twins, the Detmold brothers shared an intense passion for drawing and observing animals. As young children, they began sketching at the Zoological Gardens in London, displayed their work at the Royal Academy by the time they were 13, and published their first book of illustrations soon after. The British art world recognized their unique gift immediately …
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- 9780486136349
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Leonardo Drawings
Although Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists who ever lived, his career was marked by an unusually large number of uncompleted projects and by finished works that rapidly deteriorated. Nevertheless, his influence is undoubted, and his claim to greatness rests chiefly on his drawings, which have been carefully preserved in such locations as Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Uffizi Ga…
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- 9780486136295
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- 1 online resource (64 pages)
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NotanThe Dark-Light Principle of Design
As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both a shape and its background. Since their introduction in the West, the intriguing exe…
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- 9780486136301
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- 1 online resource (84 pages)
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Drawing Drapery from Head to Toe
Packed with indispensable information on a vital aspect of drawing, this time-honored manual offers expert guidance on how to draw shirts, pants, skirts, gloves, hats, coats, and undergarments on the human figure. Step by simple step, artists will discover how these garments fit and drape the body at rest and in action. Abundant with detailed illustrations, photographs, and diagrams, Drawing Dr…
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- 9780486136271
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