In this fully-illustrated book, Allan Ahlberg pays tribute to his wife's talents - showing her working methods and her love of English period detail.

    Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it easy and practice pages are included. Plus, the illustrations can be colored when finished.

    From there, it's just a matter of combining these shapes, adding a few necessary details - and before you know it, you'll be drawing cats, dogs, bears, horses, elephants, birds and any animals you please in any pose you like! Easy-to-copy drawings throughout gives you a great head start."

    Instructions also included for creating portraits of a lion, bobcat, cheetah, and other cat-like denizens of the wild. Great for mastering the basics of developing shapes and proportions.

    1917) is one of the foremost illustrators and graphic artists of our age. Through his collaborations with celebrated writers such as Doris Lessing, Brendan Behan, Graham Greene, and Lawrence Durrell, his clever, witty work has become familiar to millions. His adventurous spirit permeates this autobiography in words and pictures, which offers an artist's-eye view of six decades of world history. Now available for the first time in paperback with 16 new pages on Hogarth's recent travels in Tuscany, Portugal, and Scotland, this copiously illustrated book is a humorous and unique commentary on 20th-century life.Richard Ingrams, Editor for over 20 years of Private Eye, Britain's leading satirical magazine, has written an introduction setting Hogarth's work in context.

     The author examines materials and procedures, general principles and types of perspective, perspective measurement, auxiliary vanishing points, apparent scale, two point perspective grids and circles, compound forms, figures in perspective, reflections, shadows, sunlight and artificial light shadows, computer graphics and portfolio examples. For illustrators, designers, artists and architects.