Saturday, May 29, 2010

How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way


  • ISBN13: 9780671530778
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Stan Lee, the Mighty Man from Marvel, and John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind the Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, the Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto mysterious methods of comic art. Stan Lee's pithy prose gives able assistance and ... More >>

How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

From Hell


  • ISBN13: 9780958578349
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FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention from critics and scholars. Often regarded as one of the most significant... More >>

From Hell

Friday, May 21, 2010

Manga Moods



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The adorable characters from Manga University's best-selling "Manga Moods" leap off the printed page and onto the screens of your Kindle or Kindle-enabled device! It's an art class and a language lesson all rolled into one. And in full color!

A raised eyebrow, a curled lip, a wink of the eye. All it takes is a clever stroke of the G-pen to instantly change a manga character’s mood from one extreme to the other: glad to sad, sneaky to shy, angry to embarras... More >>

Manga Moods

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids



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This innovative guide is packed with easy ideas for drawing fairies and mermaids. Simple, step-by-step instructions show how to create fantastical fairylands and undersea worlds. Ages 5-7.... More >>

How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life


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Charley Harper was an American original. For over six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio until he passed away in 2007 at the age of 84. Renowned New York based designer Todd Oldham rediscovered Charley's work in 2001, and collaborated closely with him in the ensuing years; combing through his extensive archive to edit and design this stunning monograph. This cof... More >>

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Making & Installing Handmade Tiles



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With more than 70,000 copies sold, Lark's Handmade Tiles and its beautiful ideas have delighted crafters everywhere, and whetted their appetites for more. They'll find just what they're looking for in these dozen ceramic tile projects, which include everything from trivets to tabletops to stepping stones. The wealth of practical, visually breathtaking information covered here includes everything from design and formation through decoration and site installation, mak... More >>

Making & Installing Handmade Tiles

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition


  • ISBN13: 9780300115956
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Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeare... More >>

Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Strange True Stories of Louisiana



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True stories are not often good art. The relations and experiences of real men and women rarely fall in such symmetrical order as to make an artistic whole. Until they have had such treatment as we give stone in the quarry or gems in the rough they seldom group themselves with that harmony of values and brilliant unity of interest that result when art comes in--not so much to transcend nature as to make nature transcend herself.

Yet I have learned to believe ... More >>

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi


  • ISBN13: 9784770029423
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The Lone Samurai is a landmark biography of Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary Japanese figure known throughout the world as a master swordsman, spiritual seeker, and author of The Book of Five Rings. With a compassionate yet critical eye, William Scott Wilson delves into the workings of Musashi's mind as the iconoclastic samurai wrestled with philosophical and spiritual ideas that are as relevant today as they were in his times. Musashi found peace and spiritual rewar... More >>

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends


  • ISBN13: 9780898799057
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Covering the main elements of fiction writing, Beginnings, Middles & Ends demonstrates effective solutions for potential problems, from how to hook the editor in the 1st few paragraphs to building drama and credibililty in prose.'... More >>

Elements of Fiction Writing - Beginnings, Middles & Ends

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Poetics



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Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encom... More >>

Poetics

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels


  • ISBN13: 9780060780944
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Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the cr... More >>

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint


  • ISBN13: 9780898799279
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Orson Scott Card presents practical, in-depth instruction on how fiction writers can make the best choices in creating characters and handling viewpoint. The author shows how to put original yet realistic people into fiction.'... More >>

Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Children’s Writer’s Word Book



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This title's unique design ensures that writers speak to their audience with a vocabulary and style they both understand and find appealing. A fast-reference guide meant to be used along with a dictionary, thesaurus and yellow pad of paper, it will help fulfill the dream of becoming a published children's writer.... More >>

Children’s Writer’s Word Book

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Word Painting: A Guide to Write More Descriptively



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In Word Painting, Rebecca McClanahan guides readers through an intriguing examination of description in its many forms. Through her thoughtful instruction and engaging exercises, readers will learn to tap into their senses, develop their powers of observation, and uncover the rich evocative words that accurately portray the images in their mindis eye. She includes dozens of descriptive passages written by master poets and authors to help readers develop their own de... More >>

Word Painting: A Guide to Write More Descriptively

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Volume II



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The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, and thus deepened their understanding of art, architecture, painting, and sculpture. By virtue of its c... More >>

Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Volume II

Short Guide to Writing About Art, A


  • ISBN13: 9780205708253
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This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process.  Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing.... More >>

Short Guide to Writing About Art, A

Ghost World



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A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.Amazon.com Review
Dan Clowes described the story in Ghost World as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdroppe... More >>

Ghost World