Graphic Art Design category: 1547 books
How to Draw Digital Manga and Anime
Professional techniques for creating your own digital manga and anime, with over 35 exercises and projects shown in 400 step-by-step illustrations and photographs
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Manga, the famous Japanese art form, has advanced into a cutting-edge drawing style that takes advantage of the latest digital technologies and innovations. Computer programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter now allow manga artists to create digital artworks, as well as live-action animation...
Body Type
Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Body Type is an eye-opening look into the amazingly creative ways that tattoo artists are utilizing typography. Whereas the majority of tattoo art uses images to convey messages, here the message actually is the image. Twenty-six alphabetical characters might not seem like much to work with, but a...
by Sweatdrop Studios
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Manga is an emotive and expressive form of storytelling that has become popular worldwide; vivid and fascinating characters make a large contribution to its appeal. Characters are an essential component of a good story, crucial to the plot and vital for engaging the reader's interest and emotions....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts...
by Hannah Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The gateway to the intoxicating experience of the subculture, steampunk fashion has an element of interest for almost everyone, whether they're a history buff, craft creator, or giddy free spirit. Though it sprawls across literature, music, art, film, and more, steampunk - a sort of retro-futuristic...
by John J. Bowman, R. Allen Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Many engraving books on the market illustrate the forms and appearance of finished designs but fail to provide adequate instructions for actual engraving. In sharp contrast, this comprehensive and practical manual by two educators and master craftsmen teaches every step of the engraving process.Clear,...
Make Ink
A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The Toronto Ink Company was founded in 2014 by designer and artist Jason Logan as a citizen science experiment to make eco-friendly, urban ink from street-harvested pigments. In Make Ink, Logan delves into the history of inkmaking and the science of distilling pigment from the natural world. Readers...
by Mathilda V. and James A. Schwalbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Quickly master techniques of silk-screen printing for both art prints and textile design. Constructing a printing board and frame, preparing inks or dyes, printing the color runs, working with different resists, more, including special print project for the beginner. Clear explanations and 193 illustrations, including 19 in full color.
In Progress
See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This show-all romp through design-world darling Jessica Hische's sketchbook reveals the creative and technical process behind making award-winning hand lettering. See everything, from Hische's rough sketches to her polished finals for major clients such as Wes Anderson, NPR, and Starbucks. The result...
El alma de los objetos
Una mirada antropológica del diseño
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2017
¿Por qué debería importarnos el diseño? Es una de las preguntas que nos plantea Luján Cambariere y de su respuesta se desprenden muchos caminos. Nuestra vida cotidiana está atravesada por el diseño en todo momento, desde las posibilidades de uso que nos ofrece una cuchara, viajar en avión...
by Raymond Bushell
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
With dozens of photos and illustrations, A Introduction to Netsuke is a readable and thorough guide to Japanese miniature art.
Among the many Japanese fine arts, few have aroused greater admiration than the netsuke. This miniature piece of Japanese sculpture, approximately 1 1/2 inches in size,...
The Practical Guide to Drawing Caricatures
[Artist's Workbook]
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Comic and accessible, with great scope for invention, caricatures are a joy to draw. In this book, author and illustrator Peter Gray works through the process of achieving a likeness and distorting it in imaginative ways for maximum effect. Tailored step-by-step exercises help aspiring caricaturists...
by Renato De Fusco
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Hasta la llegada de Renato de Fusco, la historia del diseño era vista generalmente como subsidiaria de la historia de la arquitectura. Para subsanar este vacío teórico y analizar el diseño desde su especificidad y autonomía, De Fusco propone en esta obra un "artificio historiográfico" consistente...
by Anon
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This text contains a concise and detailed guide to the art of French polishing. Complete with helpful diagrams and easy-to-follow instructions, this guide is perfect for those with little or no experience in French polishing and makes for a great addition to collections of DIY literature. The sections...