Mark teaches you the different skills you need in order to create such masterpieces as: * Dinosaurs in the Sky * The Cool Cloud Colony * The Magnificent Moon Base * The Delightful Diving Dolphins * Professional Pollution Patrollers * Super Solar System * And thirty other excellent adventures that will have you drawing like this: There's also a special guide for parents and teachers at the end of the book.

    Using his experience as an artist and a teacher, McMullan lucidly presents his new strategy, High-Focus Drawing, demonstrating his method with examples from master works as well as from student art. High-Focus Drawing is a melding of memory, common sense, heightened awareness of our own bodies, and curiosity to find what is unique in the model. In contrast to a mechanistic approach, where the artist isolates portions of the body, High-Focus Drawing asks the student to take in the entire figure at once, resulting in a drawing that embodies a strong sense of immediacy and energy. This approach produces lively, seamless figure drawings without construction lines. For students and artists at any level who are interested in exploring the possibilities of figure drawing this book provides both guidance and inspiration.

    It presents a realistic professional picture of the designing process from the point of view of the stage designer and the scenic artist. Illustraed with detailed line drawings and photographs, the book aims to convey the beauty and excitement of stage aand see design. Each chapter is followed by a transcipt of a conversation with an American stage designer.

    The ways in which people see and interpret images are crucial in the drawing process, and the perspectives offered in these books will help extend the artist's visual awareness, transforming each daunting prospect into an exciting new challenge.

    This visual dictionary of color mixes saves time and frustrations by showing artists exactly what colors to mix to get the exact color they want.

    The ways in which people see and interpret images are crucial in the drawing process, and the perspectives offered in these books will help extend the artist's visual awareness, transforming each daunting prospect into an exciting new challenge.