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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFigure Drawing For All It's Worth
Andrew Loomis · 204 pages
Learn to draw the human figure without the use of a live model. Loomis shows how to create a stick figure as a basis for excellent human anatomy, perspective and proportion.
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher · 112 pages
Mathematician Bruno Ernst examines the oeuvre of twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher, as well as the artist's life and his inspirations and techniques.
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
Chip Kidd · 155 pages
Kids love to express themselves, and are designers by nature - whether making posters for school, deciding what to hang in their rooms, or creating personalized notebook covers. Go, by the award-winning graphic designer Chip Kidd, is a stunning introduction to the ways in which a designer communicates his or her ideas to the world. It's written and designed just for those curious kids, not to ment
Styled: Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves
Emily Henderson · 304 pages
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
David Hockney · 312 pages
Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art
Jennifer New · 192 pages
Takes readers on a tour into the private worlds of notebook/journal keepers including an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few, illustrating a broad range of styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives.
Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Carlo McCormick · 96 pages
Surreal paintings combine the detail of anatomical illustrations with the spiritual images of Buddhism.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick · 128 pages
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte · 156 pages
Jacket design: Dmitry Krasny. Other artwork by Bonnie Scranton, Dmitry Krasny, and Weilin Wu. Few would disagree: Life in the information age can be overwhelming. Through computers, the Internet, the media, and even our daily newspapers, we are awash in a seemingly endless stream of charts, maps, infographics, diagrams, and data. Visual Explanations is a navigational guide through this turbule
The Art Of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse To The Magic Kingdoms
Christopher Finch · 160 pages
Rembrandt, 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
Michael Bockemuhl · 96 pages
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe · 134 pages
"Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in the arts community and the American public. Despite the great gained recognition in America and Europe, only a few of his works have been exhibited to the European public. Artist and woman, Georgia O 'Ke
Mastering Manga with Mark Crilley: 30 drawing lessons from the creator of Akiko
Mark Crilley · 128 pages
Basic instructions and examples teach skills for drawing manga.
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art
Eric Carle, Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provensen, Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak, Gennady S · 105 pages
Twenty-three illustrators of children's literature discuss their lives, inspirations, and creative backgrounds and present photographs of themselves and their work spaces along with examples of their illustrations.
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 166 pages
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e