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Include books by the same author101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick · 128 pages
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers · 81 pages
Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers' unique ideas of colour experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edi
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud · 215 pages
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art
Architecture: Form, Space, & Order
Francis D.K. Ching · 446 pages
The Art Book
Phaidon Press · 513 pages
An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page color plate of a typical work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on each image and its creator. The entries are comprehensively cross-referenced and glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, together with an international direct
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Molly Bang · 96 pages
"Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images--and their individual components--work to tell a story that engages the emotions: Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and blue feel cold?
The Natural Way to Draw
Kimon Nicolaides · 221 pages
An approach to drawing technique based on observation covering contour and gesture, model drawing, memory in ink and watercolor; anatomy study, drapery, shade, structure, and other topics in drawing.
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
Lynda Barry · 200 pages
Offers selected pages from the author's illustrated notebooks kept during a three year period when she was figuring out how to teach a course on keeping creative notebooks. The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling work ***What It Is***. She believes that *anyone can be a writer* and has set out to prove it. For the past decade, Barry ha
Comics and Sequential Art
Will Eisner · 158 pages
From the Publisher: A classic drawing textbook from an American comics pioneer, revised and enhanced for a new generation. Based on Will Eisner's legendary course at New York's School of Visual Arts, this guide has inspired generations of artists, students, teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner reveals the basic building blocks and principles of comics, including imagery, the fr
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.
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton · 200 pages
A new addition to our best selling series, Design Briefs, Thinking with Type is a straightforward primer that presents practical information about typographic design that can be immediately applied within the context of design history and theory. It is divided into three sections - letter, text, grid - each accompanied by an essay explaining key concepts, and then a set of practical demonstrations
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures
Jessica Abel, Matt Madden · 304 pages
A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions--provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their ow
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Robert Henri · 275 pages
From 1915 to 1927, Henri was a popular and influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. He provided for each student not a style so much as an attitude, an approach to art. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Henri's other students inclu
Why Art Cannot be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students
James Elkins · 218 pages
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers--the only book of its kind--James Elkins examines the "curious endeavor to teach the unteachable" that is generally known as college-level art instruction. This singular project is organized around a series of conflicting claims about art: "Art can be taught, but nobody knows quite how." "Art can be taught, but it seems as if it can't be since
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Richard Williams · 352 pages
Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) has written an incredible step-by-step guide that's great for beginners and and experts alike. Goes into great detail regarding many aspects of animation, including detailed sections covering walks, runs, dialogue, timing, acting, directing, and much more.
Graphic Design: The New Basics
Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Cole Phillips · 252 pages
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
MaryAnn F. Kohl, Kim Solga · 152 pages
Featuring more than 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters—Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more.
Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
Rainer Metzger · 312 pages
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.