The book guides you through key fashion drawing and design techniques. Starting with basic figure templates, you quickly progress to produce visually exciting and creative illustrations, which are developed into dynamic presentations and your design portfolio - the passport to your career. Thorough text, self-explanatory drawings, photographs of the fashion model, together with artwork from international designers and illustrators, this book demonstrates the accepted design standards used in the fashion industry.
Artist Trading Card Workshop, Create, Collect, Swap
Techniques and Inspiration for Creating and Sharing Artist Trading Cards: - First how-to book on the market, providing both instruction and ideas - Topic speaks to a range of crafters, including memory artists, papercrafters, metal workers, quilters, and more - Features contributions from top-name artists for star-power appeal.
The easy steps in this book emphasize careful observation of animals and plants in nature. The elements of light and shade, contour lines, and composition come together to achieve an accurate depiction of the artist's world. With practice, students will successfully capture the things they observe around them.
The Art of Bead Embroidery - Techniques, Designs & Inspirations
Renowned bead embroidery artists Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini share their secrets for creating beautiful beadwork in The Art of Bead Embroidery. Twelve step-by-step projects guide readers from beginner to advanced skills, culminating in a broad collar design from each artist. An illustrated guide to stitches, fringes, and finishing techniques, plus tools and materials, offers a solid background or refresher on the basics.
Added by: pirandello | Karma: 76.13 | Fiction literature | 4 February 2010
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David W. McFadden, Why Are You So Sad
David W. McFadden's life in Canadian poetry has spanned five decades, and he's still going strong. This selection from his career to date brings back into print many of the greatest poems from nearly two dozen books. McFadden is that rare and precious breed of artist: He is both a poet's poet and a people's poet.
David McFadden is the author of many poetry, fiction, and travel books. He lives in Toronto.
