An artist's journal is packed with sketches and captions; some rough, some polished. The margins sometimes spill over with hurriedly scrawled shopping lists and phone numbers. The cover may be travel-worn and the pages warped from watercolors. Open the book, and raw creativity seeps from each color and line. The intimacy and freedom on its pages are almost like being inside the artist's mind: You get a direct window into risks, lessons, mistakes, and dreams. The private worlds of these visual journals are exactly what you'll find inside An Illustrated Life. This book offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of 50 top illustrators, designers and artists. Included are sketchbook pages from R. Crumb, Chris Ware, James Jean, James Kochalka, and many others. In addition, author Danny Gregory has interviewed each artist and shares their thoughts on living the artistic life through journaling.

随意的泼溅、随性的笔触并不是抽象画创作的正确方法，相反，成功的抽象画作品对艺术家和观者都有着高要求。放弃了人体造型的抽象艺术家们必须运用丰富的绘画技法及对色彩原理的深刻洞察来弥补观者对画面核心内容的需求。本书将通过浅显易懂的方式向我们介绍抽象画的相关知识，帮助我们在实践中学会抽象画创作技法，并将其灵活应用到自己的作品中。

This book discusses the physics and materials science behind paintings: the pigments, binders, canvas, varnish and so forth, that go into making a painting appear the way it does. It discusses the physical principles behind the colors one sees in paintings and how they change with illumination, the various types of paint and binders used in both old and modern paintings, and the optics and microscopic structure of paint films. Chapters on dating, binders, and dendochronology are contributed by experts in the respective fields. The book includes problems and sample examinations.

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs. Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers—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 journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore. For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to—or tried and failed—it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.

Stimulating, informative guide by noted teacher covers painting technique, painting from life, materials (paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc.), a painter’s training, more. Expert analysis of work of Velasquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hals, Rembrandt, etc. 64 photos. 5 line drawings.

Roughness is the sensual quality most often associated with Rembrandt's idiosyncratic style. It best defines the specific structure of his painterly textures, which subtly capture and engage the imagination of the beholder. Rembrandt's Roughness examines how the artist's unconventional technique pushed the possibilities of painting into startling and unexpected realms. Drawing on the phenomenological insights of Edmund Husserl as well as firsthand accounts by Rembrandt's contemporaries, Nicola Suthor provides invaluable new perspectives on many of the painter's best-known masterpieces, including The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deyman, The Return of the Prodigal Son, and Aristotle with a Bust of Homer. She focuses on pictorial phenomena such as the thickness of the paint material, the visibility of the colored priming, and the dramatizing element of chiaroscuro, showing how they constitute Rembrandt's most effective tools for extending the representational limits of painting. Suthor explores how Rembrandt developed a visually precise handling of his artistic medium that forced his viewers to confront the paint itself as a source of meaning, its challenging complexity expressed in the subtlest stroke of his brush. A beautifully illustrated meditation on a painter like no other, Rembrandt's Roughness reflects deeply on the intellectual challenge that Rembrandt's unrivaled artistry posed to the art theory of his time and its eminent role in the history of art today.

This book aims to train artists to paint what they actually see, not what they think they see. Twenty-two painting projects show how to analyze every subject as a series of distinct colour areas. A final section contains paintings of various subjects. Arthur Stern has taught painting and drawing at Hunter College in New York, and in his own studio. He has also taught art appreciation and history at a number of schools.

《芥子园画谱》是一本通俗易懂的阐明中国画技法的图谱。《芥子园画谱》全书共分为四集。第一集为山水谱，第二集为梅，兰，竹，菊谱，第三集为花卉、虫草及花木禽鸟谱，第四集为人物画谱。

ynopsis:- Noir is just as powerful in comics as it is in films: dark angles, shadowy, high contrast images, moody lighting, an anti-hero that struggles with moral conflicts: all these elements work to create a somber, dark tone. In How to Draw Noir Comics, Martinbrough walks the reader step-by-step through layout, thumbnails, staging the action and working with actual scripts. Martinborough's art is cutting edge, has a 1940's vibe, but comes across contemporary, complelling, dramatic and urban. The book also contains twenty-two page original graphic novel, written and illustrated by Martinbrough.

每个人都有灵光一闪的时刻！贝蒂博士试图用五天教会绘画的方式启发人们积极开发自己的右脑——在传统教育系统中被忽视的创造力大脑。通过五天对边线、空间、相互关系、光影等这些绘画基本技巧的掌握，获得一种新的视角，也就是像艺术家一样看事物，并且表达出来，在这个过程中开发自己大脑的创造性潜力，从而在日常生活、学习、工作中获得一种新鲜的、富有创造力的解决问题的方式。这是一本教你在最短时间，用最高效率学会绘画技巧的书，它在美国一下销了400万册，可见非常实用。美国是一个非常注重实用的国家，讲实用比讲这个、讲那个漂亮的空话要强。《洛杉矶时报》评论本书：它“不仅是一本讲绘画的书，更是一本讲生存的书。原本是教人如何绘画的优秀教材，却不能仅仅当做一本教材来看待。它解放了很多人的思想”。书中包含许多绘画练习，有“颠倒画”、“自画像”和“改良轮廓画”。艾德华的许多观点现已成为主流，你会发现这本书对最近的众多出版物产生很大的影响，非常值得一读

詹姆斯·格尔尼从20世纪80年代开始担任自由职业插画家，其油画创作方法融合了学术派写实主义以及插画艺术手法，这本书是他两本艺术指导书之一。 本书介绍的是画家进行艺术创作的两个zui重要元素—色彩与光线。色彩与光线既是所有色彩绘画都需要考虑的基础点和关键点，也是画家作画时经常遇到问题的地方。本书首先通过回顾大师作品，讲述传统绘画中对于光线和色彩的运用，紧接着论述光源、光线对形体的影响，色彩原理、颜料与色料以及色彩之间的关系，还包括怎样混合颜料，不同材质的表面对光和色彩的影响，以及各种各样的大气效应等。 本书适合各种水平的画者以及对视觉世界充满好奇心的人参考学习。

In clear and easy-to-follow steps, this highly effective textbook sets out everything that students need to know to produce competent and visually exciting illustrations. It is suitable both for class use and self-teaching, and shows how to create lively fashion illustrations of men, women and children. Examples of the media available and different drawing techniques are presented in a student-friendly form, with detailed explanations of how to represent fabrics, create and use templates and stencils, and make specification and working drawings. The presentation in this new edition has been updated throughout, using modern software techniques, the resource drawings now have a more contemporary look, and coloured illustrations are included for the first time.

Essential Fashion Illustration: Digital is a complete, in-depth tutorial that guides readers step-by-step through the digital techniques typically employed in fashion design and illustration. Through dozens of practical exercises, readers improve their skills using tools such as graphics tablets, scanners, cameras, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, vectorizing, adding color, and applying textures, transparencies, collages, and patterns. Each of the exercises also includes definitions for the technical terms used as well as handy tips from leading fashion designers. Essential Digital Fashion Illustration is an essential guide for amateurs or beginners who want to make a start in the world of fashion illustration and design, as well as for professionals already established in the sector who want to improve and polish their techniques.

《像艺术家一样思考》一书的作者在这本有关色彩的书里作了一次关于色彩和用色彩绘画的冒险。贝蒂·艾德华揭开了色原学的神秘面纱。并以一种任何艺术家或设计师、甚至任何人都能领会的方式介绍给大家。学会使用色彩，教你解决问题，这就是本书的宗旨所在。 ——Aifa 这本书是最好的素描与色彩画之间的桥梁，如果你对单色绘画有一点认识，并想进一步了解用色彩画殛，这本书就最适合了。如果你觉得自己不会画画，那就在读这本书之前先读一下《像艺术家一样思考》吧，两部作品都同样出色。 ——C0nStant Reade r 终于有一本揭开色原学神秘面纱的书了，它思路清晰，易读，有趣，一点也不比畅销书《像艺术家一样思考》逊色，它是《像艺术家一样思考》这本书很好的补充，是每一位艺术家、设计、甚至每个人都应该读的书。 ——Ozzie“Sal”

"If only we students of art could learn from some of the best picture makers of the 20th Century. As a young professional many years ago, I studied the principles set down in the Famous Artist School for decades, and at quite a price tag I might add. What a pleasure to discover this budget-minded treasure trove of word and picture from the superstars of American illustration. It includes such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Harold Von Schmidt, Albert Dorne, and oh so many others. Absolutely invaluable!" - Steve Huston "If only we students of art could learn from some of the best picture makers of the 20th Century. As a young professional many years ago, I studied the principles set down in the Famous Artist School for decades, and at quite a price tag I might add. What a pleasure to discover this budget-minded treasure trove of word and picture from the superstars of American illustration. It includes such luminaries as Norman Rockwell, Harold Von Schmidt, Albert Dorne, and oh so many others. Absolutely invaluable!" -- Steve Huston, author of Figure Drawing for Artists

《艺用人体透视图集》前卫，视觉感受新颖，是一部杰出的再版摄影图书，为插图家、美术家、雕塑家深度了解透视角度下的人体，即透视缩短的人体，提供了最快速便捷的第一手资料。本书提供了全新的摄影图片，主要包括了530多张高质量的照片；男性和女性人体照片；轻度、中度、重度透视法缩短下的姿势；全身照片和西部拍摄照片；从各种不同角度拍摄的各种姿势。

A long-time instructor at New York’s Art Students League and one of the foremost teachers of figure drawing offers expert, illustrated advice on depicting draped figures as well as cloth in still lifes. Students learn the characteristics of seven different kinds of folds and how to render them, including pipe, zigzag, spiral, half-lock, diaper pattern, drop, and inert folds. Mastery of these principles is the key to realistic portrayal of garments. The straightforward, easy-to-follow text is illustrated by the author’s own pencil sketches and diagrams. 200 black-and-white illustrations.

Simple secrets for colors that sing Don't settle for colors that just sit there. Inspired by the work of the great Impressionists, Color Harmonies shows you how to use analogous colors (colors next to each other on the color wheel) and their complements to achieve lively, glowing effects. By keeping palette-mixing to a minimum, placing pure color notes side by side, and applying other simple but powerful color tricks, you'll create sparkling passages of color that attract your viewer's eye, engage the imagination, and make your paintings shine. 5 demonstrations illustrate the step-by-step creation of stunning light-filled paintings. Includes expert instruction on drawing and composition, techniques for adding texture and interest, making the most of light and shadow, and more. Richly illustrated with gorgeous landscape, flower and figure paintings. Brimming with 30 years' worth of instruction by a veteran workshop teacher, Color Harmonies offers a strong foundation for artists just starting out in watercolor, as well as groundbreaking advice for advanced artists in search of more effective and personal approaches to color and light.