Best Printmaking
Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide covers the essential aspects of pen and ink drawing and more. He actively maintains a YouTube channel featuring hundreds of videos and tutorials on drawing, sketching, pen and ink, watercolor, and more for learners of all levels.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Dunn takes that a step further and shows you how to develop a shadow using the texture you are trying to illustrate. C. Dunn takes the learner into the importance of different ways of drawing. I think what is important about this book is that Dunn is very aware of how he learned and what his questions were and he tried very hard to make a book that would have helped him."
"He has spent most of his time teaching people for free and he put all of his knowledge into this wonderful book."
"The book helped me get back into inking and I enjoyed it more than painting digitally."
"It's really safe to say that here in this book all the information is greatly structured. You can find all the nuts and bolts which are just vital for anyone who's anything serious about drawing itself. Just think of the following: if you don't know 'the letters' than how you're gonna write? Well the book's called 'a simple guide'."
"I have watched and rewatched these videos so many times that I made a personal vow to buy his book as soon as it became available in order to take a small step towards repaying him for all of the hours he commits to his fans."
"I have been watching Alphonso Dunn on YouTube for over three years and everything I love about his teaching there is found in his book. I have taken MANY art courses and most I paid for, but Mr Dunn's teachings go above and beyond any of the teaching I received else where."
"This book is all I have been working with for several weeks and I'm having fun and see improvement in my drawings. I do mostly line and wash and this book helps me really better understand light and shadow, as well as texture."
The illustrator Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered among artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, Realist style. After studying art he moved to Chicago, eventually opening his own studio, working in editorial and advertising for most of the top clients at the time including Kellogg's, Coca Cola, Lucky Strike and more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"VERY helpful book!"
"Andrew Loomis is one of the most talented artists that ever lifted a pencil and this book was lovingly composed as a personal gift to those who might be inspired to follow in his footsteps."
"Although the figures are exaggerated a bit, this book is wonderful and beautiful."
"excellent quality well written a must have for any budding artist a great hand book ."
"Most artists can't draw well - this book will help eliminate that problem."
"I had started studying a low quality, crooked scanned version of this book I found online."
"Every student or even working professional should get Loomis's book collection."
"This is an absolutely beautiful reprinting of the classic figure drawing book."
New York Times Bestseller. Named one of the Best Gift Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly , InStyle , House Beautiful , T: The New York Times Style Magazine , Better Homes & Gardens , Luxe Interiors + Design , People StyleWatch , Garden & Gun , The Los Angeles Times , The Chicago Tribune , New York Magazine , and more John Derian’s home goods empire reaches far and wide—in addition to the four John Derian stores he owns in New York and Massachussetts, his products are sold by more than 600 retailers worldwide, including Neiman Marcus, ABC, and Gump’s in the United States; Conran and Liberty in the UK; and Astier de Villatte in Paris.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was able to purchase this book used and paid less than half the cover price. Had I paid full price or Amazon price I would have been a whole lot more disappointed. If you're looking for details of antique images you're going to get that with this book. My photos of the faces are not detail shots - they are really that large in the book - book page size is about 11" x 14" and the images fill the page.)."
"If you have not had the fortune of seeing this book in person, you should know that its phenomenal."
"Amazing book!"
"Exquisite tome...however I thought it would include some of Derian's collages...."
"Beautiful book by a fantastic designer."
"A great alternative to the Apple iPad for those that don't know how to use social media, or technology."
Best Lithography
Featuring 24 unique and creative designs, ranging in complexity from to simple to advanced, this coloring book will provide hours and hours of stress relief, mindful calm, and fun, creative expression. Long before adult-coloring books were introduced to the world, Dani was turning store-bought children's coloring books into adult-coloring books for her own enjoyment.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great value for price."
"Great item."
"Gift for grand-daughter...she loved it!"
"It was awesome!"
"This is so cute!!"
"A coloring book that isn't worth more then $1.00."
Best Typography
Chalkfulloflove was created to encourage, inspire and make you giggle, so just pour yourself a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and settle in to start your own unique, adorable lettering creations! Hardcover, oversized gold wire-o binding and gold corner protectors Step by step instructions on how to create various fonts and designs Thick premium paper, perfect for lettering Beautiful coffee table book and practical workbook. A day in her life looks like taking a crazy number of photos, dancing in the garage while packaging up orders, and cuddling with her pups.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is beautiful!"
"Gorgeous book!"
"This book makes learning hand lettering SO easy!"
"BUT, the blank pages.... About 45% of the book is blank pages, not to mention all the white space. Pages 96-110 are ENTIRELY BLANK but for the page number, and so is almost half of the book."
"I should have listened to the other people who reported that this book was full of nothing, but I was encouraged by the the claim that additional content was added."
"If you want to learn upper case, you have to also buy Hand Lettering 201."
"In purchasing a $30.00 book I expect more inside information, tips and tricks and showing me HOW she achieves her style of lettering, etc... For example, the flourishes pages literally just tells you that flourishes and illustrations are great to add to your lettering then shows you a 2" x 2" example of the author's own "Bless Your Heart" design (with zero instructions on how she achieved it) and has about a 6"x3" area next to that design that says "Practice Here.""
"Got the lower case letters down and then realized there's no upper case letters to practice to!!"
Best Animation Graphic Design
The Avatar’s adventures continue right where the TV series left off, in this beautiful oversized hardcover of The Promise, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and Eisner and Harvey Award winner Gene Luen Yang!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"We find out Toph went on to start a metalbending school (and we meet a few characters--her students, whom she calls "lily livers"), and we see that Aang and Katara have officially cemented their relationship."
"I cried when I got to the end of this book because I know I will have to wait till they write a new one."
"The Firelord is cooling his heels in prison and his son, Zuko, is doing his best to work with the other kingdoms and restore order and balance to the world. But trying to undo a hundred years of occupation of the other kingdoms has unexpected consequences."
"It is not in whatever way predictable, in my opinion, and the complicated relationships in the Royal FIre Nation family are more fleshed out than ever before. As for the artwork, the artistic team continues to produce illustration that shows great attention to detail, including the very obvious physical and mental changes that the characters experience as they go through adolescence."
"It continues the life of Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, Toph, Mai, Suki, Iroh and Ozai. This trilogy is named the promise because of the relationship that Zuko and Aang have after the war. The books revolves around this Promise. I suspect this comes from Sokka repeatedly calling Aang and Katara's PDA, Oogie."
Best Commercial Graphic Design
How to Draw Cool Stuff shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As adults, we over-complicate so much, and this book teaches us that maybe slowing things down and using just the basics can give very surprising results."
"There is a good reason why every reviewer is giving this book 5 Stars. To open the book, the author provides an extensive section on suggestions for teachers helping the beginning artist. From the Introduction: "Through Art we have the opportunity to showcase our personal strengths in a meaningful way." Some of my favorite drawing lessons: The "Ancient Masks" section, the "Basketball Hoop" drawing, and the "Foreshortened person" lesson. ▲ Honestly, Catherine Holmes has produced a MAGNIFICENT book for students and teachers alike. The amount of time spent producing this book must have been enormous."
"A discussion with a friend got me interested in trying out sketching and drawing as a fun and creative outlet. This is a great eBook for two groups of beginners: 1) the instant gratification type: you just got your pencils and sketch pad and you just want to start drawing things. Okay, drawing attempts is a better description, but my bad art is not what's reviewed here :). The second group of beginners are ones who want to learn more, in an easy to digest format. So we can't have it both ways :). The ebook is comfortable to read on the 7 inch Kindle Fire tablet (or anything larger), and you can zoom on the pictures whether you have your device in portrait or landscape orientation. Some of them have a semi-usable image zoom option (Paperwhite, classic Kindle with Keyboard), so if you are patient, you can also go through the drawing exercises with those. The tiny basic Kindle does not have image zoom, so it's not very useful if you are doing the drawing exercises (but still fine if you want to read the text parts)."
"9 year old who is an amazing artist already understood when I showed her the steps."
"Will want to buy the other books in this series now."
"This was a present for my daughter and she said it is the most helpful instruction guide she has ever gotten."
"This book was so awesome that I couldn't stop reading it's the best on the market I even read it when ever I have time."
"I bought this, along with a set of drawing pencils, for a kid."
Best Graphic Design Clip Art
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Another great find to help you relieve stress and encourage a positive outlook in your life."
"Wife loves to color, she liked the book."
"It was a gift she loved it."
"Love the pictures included in this book!"
"love the patterns, but the paper is a bit lower quality than what I would prefer."
"Very pretty pages to color."
"The drawings are absolutely beautiful!"
"This is a great book to color."
Best Airbrush Graphic Design
Coloring book full of beautiful designs, incorporating hilarious alternative swear words!
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Bought for my girlfriend who is a art teacher."
"Purchased as a teacher gift."
"There are very few pages."
"The perfect gift for your child's teacher."
"This was a perfect gift for my kids teacher."
"Funny teacher humor."
"Sent as a gift to a granddaughter teaching high school."
"The pictures are somewhat larger spaced than I thought from viewing online."
Best Graphic Design Techniques
Specially designed for experienced colorists, Owls and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Marjorie Sarnat is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of several coloring books and more than a dozen books on art and creativity.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The pages of the book are single-sided and are perforated at the bound edge so you can remove the page to color or to frame afterwards. The images have a wide range, including: an owl sitting on a wildly decorated crescent moon, an owl with butterflies, a "smart" owl amongst his/her books, owls on a wooden rocking horse, pirate owls, fairy tale owl, totem pole owls, steampunk owl, the owl and the pussycat (yes, cat included!)."
"She has filled this book with Charming Owls that entrance you and entwined them with intricate, captivating, unparalleled combinations of patterns, embellishing the backgrounds, scenery, borders, and even adorning the Owls creating illustrations that will make this your favorite coloring book, and you won’t be able to put it down. All Markers and Gel Pens leak through the pages so place two pieces of paper under the page you are coloring to prevent damage to the next page. If you love this book, you will also want to look at Marjoie Sarnats first coloring book (Creative Haven Cats)."
"This is a really cute and charming coloring book perfect for owl aficionados and colorists who like quirky pictures."
"The attached photos show a page from this book colored with the Sharpie Ultra-Fine Tip 24 pack markers and the very minimal bleed-through."
"I love owls so I'm probably bias about this coloring book."
"Markers will bleed through, but that's easy to fix with a couple of sheets of paper behind that one your coloring."
"This makes using water colored pencils and markers easier as they do not bleed through to the other picture. I do put another piece of paper or thin cardboard in between so that it also helps to catch the bleeding if I am being heavy handed."
"5 bucks for a coloring book?"