Drawing the Living Figure: A Complete Guide to Surface Anatomy by Joseph Sheppard
English | 7 Oct. 1991 | ISBN: 0486267237 | 144 Pages | PDF | 23.25 MB
 
This innovative approach focuses upon the specifics of surface anatomy. 177 of Sheppard's drawings show many different live models in front, back, and side views, and in various standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, reclining, and twisting poses. Each drawing is accompanied by two diagrams, one for bones, one for muscles.

 
Mangas popularity has spread well beyond Japan and is now firmly entrenched in North American pop culture. Manga has even come to influence visual arts, advertising, and increasingly anime-infused cartoon programming. There are increasing career opportunities for talented artists in this field. This book introduces readers to the art of manga and is a guide to creating ones own images and stories in the distinctive manga style. It explains, in easy-to-follow text and logical step-by-step photographs, the basic techniques required for mastery of the manga style, with particular emphasis on distinctive, dramatic, and striking expressions and poses. These progressive drawing and coloring instructions are followed by several projects designed to reinforce what has been learned, hone the drawing skills, and produce quality manga artwork.

 
Paint Pouring is a form of abstract art that uses acrylic paints with a runny (fluid) consistency. The acrylic paints react with each other when combined to make interesting and visually organic motifs. Fluid acrylics can be used on many types of substrates through various techniques such as pouring, dripping, swirling, glazing, dipping, and more to create dazzling and masterful effects.

Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers: A professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415711754 | 816 pages | PDF | 74,3 MB
 
Martin Evening, Photoshop hall-of-famer and acclaimed digital imaging professional, has revamped his much-admired Photoshop for Photographers book for an eleventh edition, to include detailed instruction for all of the updates to Photoshop CC on Adobe’s Creative Cloud. This comprehensive guide covers all the tools and techniques serious photographers need to know when using Photoshop, from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results. Using clear, succinct instruction and real world examples, this guide is the essential reference for Photoshop users of all levels.

Drawing the Landscape, 4th Edition by Chip Sullivan
Wiley | 2013 | True PDF | ISBN: 1118454812 | 370 pages | 101 MB
 
This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural and built environment. It offers guidance for tapping into and exploring personal creative potential and helps readers master the essential principles, tools, and techniques required to prepare professional graphic representations in landscape architecture and architecture. It illustrates how to create a wide range of graphic representations using step-by-step tutorials, exercises and hundreds of samples.

Drawing Management with AutoCAD Sheet Set by Edwin Prakoso
English | March 22, 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00V37KFH2 | 104 pages | AZW3 | 3.19 Mb
 
This 84 pages e-book covers how to prepare, create and use your drawings using Sheet Set. You will learn to create page setup, title block, automatic view title, automatic sheet list, batch plot/publish… and more!

Julie Gilbert Pollard, "Watercolor Unleashed: New Directions for Traditional Painting Techniques"
English | ISBN: 1440320888 | 2013 | EPUB | 128 pages | 20 MB

Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills by David Sherwin
English | ISBN: 1600617972 | 2010 | EPUB | 256 pages | 18 MB
 
Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so, then this book is for you.Within these pages, you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions, in various media, within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages and other interactive experiences. Each exercise includes compelling visual solutions from other designers and background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate.Creative Workshop also includes useful brainstorming techniques and wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge, you'll find new and more effective ways to solve tough design problems and bring your solutions to vibrant life.

Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior by Steven Heller
English | May 1, 2012 | ISBN: 1592537669 | 224 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
 
This revolutionary guide is not only the first to look at how typography in design creates a call to action, but it also explores type and image as language. Stop, Think, Go, Do is packed with arresting imagery from around the world that influences human behavior. Page after page, you’ll find innovative messages that advocate, advise caution, educate, entertain, express, inform, play, and transform.

John Ruskin, "The Elements of Drawing (Dover Art Instruction)"
ISBN: 0486227308 | 1971 | EPUB | 256 pages | 4 MB
 
Can drawing — sound, honest representation of the world as the eye sees it, not tricks with the pencil or a few "effects" — be learned from a book? One of the most gifted draftsmen, who is also one of the greatest art critics and theorists of all time, answers that question with a decided "Yes." He is John Ruskin, the author of this book, a classic in art education as well as a highly effective text for the student and amateur today.

Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs: 513 Original Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive), 68th Edition by William Rowe
English | February 12th, 2014 | ISBN: 0486249247 | 62 pages | EPUB | 14.78 MB
 
The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style.

 
Corel Draw is a vector based graphic designing software which one can use for creating logos, brochures, flexes and vector designs based on creativity and lining. This book is all about learning the latest version of Corel Draw which is X7. Learning this software enables You to create any kind of logo which is printable, because we use this software mostly for printable things.

 
Since Steamboat Mickey, animators have been creating characters and films that are charming, warm and humorous, allowing people to connect with the animated medium. Animation fans love the characters for a lifetime. This is the legacy of the countless animators and artists who created the classic characters and fun stories, and it is the legacy of Disney Legend, Floyd Norman. Written with wit and verve, Animated Life is a guided tour through an entire lifetime of techniques, practical hands-on advice and insight into an entire industry. This is a vital tutorial in animation's past, present and future for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Apply artistic magic to your own projects and garner valuable insight and inspiration from a True Disney legend. Animated Life is a classic in the making with completely relevant techniques and tools for the contemporary animation or fine arts professional.

 
Drawing with Charcoal For BeginnersStep By Step Guide to Drawing Landscapes – Portraits – AnimalsLearn to draw with charcoal using familiar items around you and famous wizards. Over 250 pages of examples and steps to follow.You will love the step by step approach by the author to teach how to become an artist using charcoal as a medium to produce life like paintings.

Life Drawing: A Complete Course

English | 2008 | ISBN-10: 0486468828 | 224 pages | PDF conv | 10 MB

by Robert Grant (Author)
This is the age of data. There are more innovations and more opportunities for interesting work with data than ever before, but there is also an overwhelming amount of quantitative information being published every day. Data visualisation has become big business, because communication is the difference between success and failure, no matter how clever the analysis may have been. The ability to visualize data is now a skill in demand across business, government, NGOs and academia.

 
Pencil Drawing Techniques Collection: 75 Pencil Ideas For Drawing Your First Masterpiece!

 
This update to the first book to provide explicit case histories of the successful marriage of form and content in graphic design explores more than 125 classic and contemporary works-30 of them brand new-explaining why they are aesthetically significant and how they function as good design. These thought pieces offer a vast taste of the aesthetic, political, historical, and personal issues that move today's global design community and fans.•0 Full of new stories about the graphic icons and idols of today's design culture • This replaces 1-880559-76-5 which has sold nearly 20,000 copies

 
With over 8 million views, Steven Cronin's Watercolour Workshop YouTube channel has helped budding artists around the world learn the basics of watercolour painting in a loose and free style whilst avoiding fuss and excess detail. His work ethic of practise, practise, practise has challenged his viewers to break barriers and find success in a medium thought of as difficult and arduous. 'Watercolour Painting Made Simple' highlights his channel's premise that watercolour doesn't have to be complicated and is available to anyone with the desire and passion to learn. The exercises in this book are broken down into a series of step by step guides to help build your confidence and gain success. So grab your brushes and give it a go. It's not as difficult as you think. Happy painting!

 
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack the mysterious connection between design and growth, and teach managers in a straightforward way how to exploit design's exciting potential.

 
Being a successful graphic designer today requires more than knowing the essential features of industry-standard software applications. It also requires an understanding of how to integrate these programs into a seamless whole while producing work that conforms to design principles and client expectations. This fully revised edition of The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit, 3rd Edition provides a full-color, comprehensive overview of Macintosh OS X and Windows Vista operating systems, design fundamentals, and the "Big 3" digital design programs used in the graphics industry today: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, and Adobe InDesign CS3. The book examines the essential features of each, then reveals in practical detail the skills and technology necessary for effective design for print and Web Media. This project-based book features a highly visual introduction to the essential tools and functions of each application from the perspective of the working designer. Readers are then given the opportunity to put what they learn to work by tackling design projects from concept to completion with assignments drawn from the everyday world of professional graphic designers.

 
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Drawing Figures!
To draw an anatomical figure, you don't need a stack of weighty anatomy books. Just take it step by step!

 
In this comprehensive, 32-page book, accomplished artist Debra Kauffman Yaun shares her artistic insights and techniques for creating strikingly realistic animal drawings in colored pencil. The book opens with essential information on choosing tools and materials, understanding color theory, and creating basic pencil strokes. It then covers special colored pencil techniques, such as hatching, burnishing, layering, and blending.