Watson Guptill imprint: 167 books
Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Dragsters, Vintage Cars, Dune Buggies, Mini Coopers Choppers, and Many More...
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles shows artists of all levels how to draw with ease by following simple step-by-step examples. Celebrated author Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw your favorite hot rods, sports cars, and clunkers, including Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, dump trucks, tandem bikes, and...
The Artist's Guide to Drawing Animals
How to Draw Cats, Dogs, and Other Favorite Pets
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
In this step-by-step how-to guide to creating classic portraits of animals in pencil and pen-and-ink, artist J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of pets and other familiar domestic creatures with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. Covering a variety of animals from dogs and cats to barnyard critters...
Draw 200 Animals
The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Horses, Cats, Dogs, Birds, Fish, and Many More Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A compendium of step-by-step drawing exercises from the best-selling Draw 50 series that features easy-to-follow lessons for rendering animals including cats, dogs, horses, prehistoric creatures, and more.
With exercises taken from the animal drawing instruction titles in Lee J. Ames's beloved...
Understanding Color in Photography
Using Color, Composition, and Exposure to Create Vivid Photos
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Veteran photographer and instructor Bryan Peterson is best known for his arresting imagery using bold, graphic color and composition. Here he explores his signature use of color in photography for the first time, showing readers his process for creating striking images that pop off the page. He addresses...
Classical Painting Atelier
A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Want to paint more like Manet and less like Jackson Pollock?
Students of art hailed Classical Drawing Atelier, Juliette Aristides’s first book, as a dynamic return to the atelier educational model. Ateliers, popular in the nineteenth century, teach emerging artists by pairing them with a...
Simply Calligraphy
A Beginner's Guide to Elegant Lettering
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Learning the simple and beautiful art of hand-lettered calligraphy is as easy as picking up pen and paper!
Italic is the calligraphy’s most popular alphabet, and this delightful manual introduces basic capital and small letters and numbers, plus all the creative flourishes you need to customize...
by William Maughan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
In this innovative guide, master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modeling technique of chiaroscuro (Italian for “light and dark”) developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance.
Maughan...
The Ultimate Brush Lettering Guide
A Complete Step-by-Step Creative Workbook to Jump-Start Modern Calligraphy Skills
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, a complete guide to learning and perfecting brush lettering, a forgiving style of modern calligraphy that encourages creative expression and imprecision, including basic skills, flourishes, and project ideas.
The Ultimate Brush Lettering...
The New Colored Pencil
Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Learn to draw and paint using colored pencils in The New Colored Pencil: a how-to guide for creating vibrant, textured, and easy art illustrations by best-selling author and teacher Kristy Kutch
Master the Latest Breakthroughs in Colored Pencil Art
If you want to create colorful, radiant...
Photoshop for Artists
A Complete Guide for Fine Artists, Photographers, and Printmakers
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
ENRICH, ENHANCE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR ART WITH THE MAGIC OF PHOTOSHOP®
For artists, Adobe® Photoshopâ offers an exciting entry into a new world of limitless color, textures, and effects that can be applied with just the touch of a keyboard or click of a mouse.
Intended for serious artists...
Human Dimension and Interior Space
A Source Book of Design Reference Standards
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The study of human body measurements on a comparative basis is known as anthropometrics. Its applicability to the design process is seen in the physical fit, or interface, between the human body and the various components of interior space.
Human Dimension and Interior Space is the first major...
Extreme Perspective! For Artists
Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In this sequel to the classic bestseller Perspective! For the Comic Book Artist, David Chelsea takes perspective to a whole other level—by exploring the most dramatic viewpoints employed by today’s artists. Many of these techniques have been carefully guarded secrets for centuries. But David,...
Landscape Graphics
Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear...
The Acrylic Painter
Tools and Techniques for the Most Versatile Medium
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A complete course on acrylic painting for beginners and experienced artists that covers classic approaches and new innovations
Embraced for versatility, quick-drying properties, and non-toxicity, no medium offers a wider range of effects forcreating highly expressive art than acrylics. With...