Watson Guptill imprint: 167 books
Draw the Draw 50 Way
How to Draw Cats, Puppies, Horses, Buildings, Birds, Aliens, Boats, Trains, and Everything Else Under the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Learn to Draw . . . the Draw 50 Way!
For more than forty years, the bestselling Draw 50 series has shown artists of all levels how to create everything from puppies to ships, horses to skyscrapers, and aliens to race cars. This addition to the series shows how to render sixty of Lee J. Ames’s...
Urban Watercolor Sketching
A Guide to Drawing, Painting, and Storytelling in Color
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods.
Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes,...
Sketch!
The Non-Artist's Guide to Inspiration, Technique, and Drawing Daily Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Drawing activities, art instruction, and advice for artists and non-artists alike.
Urban sketching--the process of drawing on the go as a regular practice--is a hot trend in the drawing world. It's also a practical necessity for creatively minded people in a busy world. In this aspirational...
Designing with Type, 5th Edition
The Essential Guide to Typography
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with...
Cartoon Cool
How to Draw the New Retro Characters of Today's Cartoons
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling...
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits
Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of...
Everyday Watercolor
Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.
This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning...
Essential Techniques of Landscape Drawing
Master the Concepts and Methods for Observing and Rendering Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
This beginner's guide to drawing in graphite pencil uses step-by-step exercises to teach fundamental methods for rendering all aspects of the natural landscape, with additional lessons on using charcoal, colored pencil, pastel, and other media.
Following in the footsteps of author, artist,...
by Christopher Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
From head to toe, the human form, in all its complexities, is visually simplified to such a degree in this remarkable workbook that even complete beginners will soon be able to draw accurate, well-proportioned faces and figures every time they try.
Avoiding complex charts of muscles and bones...
Cartoon Cute Animals
How to Draw the Most Irresistible Creatures on the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Learn the insider secrets professional cartoonists use to turn regular cartoon animals into completely cute characters
Warm and fuzzy characters all have that “certain something” that makes them so memorable and darling. But what exactly is it? This sought-after, ultra-cute...
Portrait Painting Atelier
Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced...
Daily Painting
Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A unique system for jump-starting artistic creativity, encouraging experimentation and growth, and increasing sales for artists of all levels, from novices to professionals.
Have you landed in a frustrating rut? Are you having trouble selling paintings in galleries, getting bogged down by projects...
by Christopher Hart
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The ultimate guide to creating the most popular form of manga--shoujo!
If you’re reading this, you already love shoujo. But now you’ll be able to take the next step and actually write and draw your very own. The teen characters that populate the genre are outrageously cool, including magical...
Manga for the Beginner Kawaii
How to Draw the Supercute Characters of Japanese Comics
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Got manga? Christopher Hart’s got manga, and he wants to share it with all his millions of readers—especially the beginners. With Manga for the Beginner, anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga characters right away. Using his signature step-by-step style, Hart shows how to...