Here the focus is on realistic comic strips and cartoons, including the creation of a full strip. Examples of full illustrations by various artists are included, with a range of distinctive features being highlighted...

The animal studies by this artist of the past display a particularly up-to-date style and graphic technique. There is much to learn from observing and drawing the animal world of this master artist...

This small painting manual contains a remarkable wealth of content. It is a concentrate of examples and extremely useful guidelines presented in a clear and easy way. Just a small financial outlay ensures the budding calligrapher has an excellent guide to this particularly attractive topic...

Cartoons and humorous drawings have evolved dramatically over the years, but the key to a successful cartoon is always good drawing skills, as this introduction demonstrates...

Caricatures in color and in black-and-white are the focus of this volume. Different techniques and different artists show how, by exaggerating and highlighting key facial features, caricatures of famous people past and present can be created ..

This wide-ranging overview of the principles of decoration presents examples of geometrical patterns and decorative motifs based on stylized natural shapes. It is an extremely useful tool for anyone wanting to develop and create decorative patterns and paintings in a wide variety of contexts...

In full color throughout, this volume presents a series of still life pictures using a variety of techniques: watercolors, oils, acrylics and crayons. Trying your hand at copying some of the paintings shown is an excellent way to learn the various techniques and to find inspiration for your own personal works of art, based on the ideas and approach..

This collection of pictures of roses painted in watercolors comes from a botanical handbook illustrated by A. Parson. While the subjects are simple, the decorative effect produced is extraordinary...

A city scene, a little old village, and a cluster of rural buildings are just some of the subjects in this full-color collection of architectural scenes. The various techniques highlight the particular architectural features that distinguish each picture...

The introduction to this volume focuses on the specific proportions of children's faces and their body size as they grow. There follows a series of portraits of children captured in particularly expressive moments and natural situations. The pictures in mixed techniques are an inspiration to artists to portray children in natural poses, rather than..

This volume presents a series of pictures of trees and leaves. Far from being a botanical handbook, the volume aims to stimulate artists to capture the most expressive and evocative aspects of the natural world that surrounds them...

This collection of 18 pictures using a variety of techniques (watercolors, oils and acrylics) focuses on water, highlighting its transparency and its reflective capacity. Seascapes, lake views, river scenes and stagnant water are examined so as to appreciate the difficulties involved in painting water, as well as the satisfaction that the artist ca..

Oils, acrylics and watercolors are the techniques used for the 15 paintings in this volume devoted to the seasons. The pictures stimulate the reader to appreciate and capture the most expressive and evocative aspects of the changing seasons. And as nature changes its appearance, the light changes in quality and quantity. The changing seasons throug..

This book provides a compendium of methods and of tricks of the trade that are likely to be particularly useful to the painter, often producing surprising results. This volume, therefore, aims to demonstrate a series of artistic “secrets”, applying them to actual paintings. And to show how the techniques can truly be effective, we have chosen 15 su..