Author: Victionary
Publisher: Victionary
Keywords: play, illustration
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-12-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 9889822938
ISBN-13: 9789889822934

Illustration Play explores new trends in handcrafted illustration, each of which lends a welcome departure from digitally generated graphics. In a bold departure from the pixel based aesthetic, Illustration Play focuses rather on the return to experimental and unique techniques such as paper cutting, stitching, knitting, needlework, origami, patchwork and more. Thirty artists from around the globe present their distinct yet diverse perspectives on their signature styles, and the myriad skills they bring to each project, and share their resounding successes. Contributors include Catalina Estrad

Author: Karen T. Taylor
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: illustration, art, forensic
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2000-09-15
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0849381185
ISBN-13: 9780849381188

As the number of stranger-on-stranger crimes increases, solving these crimes becomes more challenging. Forensic illustration has become increasingly important as a tool in identifying both perpetrators and victims. Now a leading forensic artist, who has taught this subject at law enforcement academies, schools, and universities internationally, offers readers the benefit of her extensive knowledge and experience. Forensic Art and Illustration is the first book to provide complete coverage of all aspects of the field, and includes much previously unavailable information.Beginning with the first

Author: Gordon Grice
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: illustration, architectural, art
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 007024765X
ISBN-13: 9780070247659

Master the art of architectural illustration. Master the full range of architectural illustration techniques--from electronic rendering to mixed media, watercolor, gouache, pencil and pen-and-ink--with the Second Edition of The Art of Architectural Illustration, edited by Gordon Grice. This lavishly illustrated guide takes you step by step through the work of 35 of the World’s most accomplished architectural renderers. . .and explores a wide variety of project and rendering types. Now with 100% new illustrations and projects, this edition includes: International projects, covering a wide

Author: Joseph Pennell
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: books, illustration
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $21.75
ISBN-10: 0559728131
ISBN-13: 9780559728136

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. METHODS OF DRAWING FOR REPRODUCTION IN LINE. ’THERE is no doubt that to-day the most popular method of designing the decoration of a book (I use the word book, but I would refer to magazines and papers as well) is by means of line work. By the use of what materials these lines are to be made ; how they are to be placed upon paper or metal that they may reproduce and print best ; and the

Author: Laird Borrelli
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: illustration, fashion
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0811845737
ISBN-13: 9780811845731

The photograph has long been the medium of fashion, but contemporary illustration is transforming how the industry is presented. Fashion Illustration Next presents the work of nearly forty artists from around the world whose work is changing the way we see fashion, free of model worship and the cult of the photographer. Though it is no shock that the new generation of illustrators makes abundant use of digital media and techniques, the surprising array of results -- from high-sheen artifice to fantasy collage to work that looks like "old school" pen-and-ink -- represents a rich confluence of s

Author: Ethel Traphagen
Publisher: Fournier Press
Keywords: illustration, design, costume
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-02-29
List price: $26.45
ISBN-10: 1408656256
ISBN-13: 9781408656259

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Maite Lafuente
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Keywords: illustration, fashion, essential
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1592532535
ISBN-13: 9781592532537

This book’s aim is to submerge the reader in the world of illustration. The first section ranges from how to start to draw a human figure to the techniques to stylize and synthesize it. This section provides a large amount of figures in different poses, as well as hands and feet-often the most difficult parts - in diverse postures and angles. However, in the field of fashion it is also essential to know how to draw fabric, and even more important to know how to draw the folds of clothing. The items of clothing are presented as much in technical drawing as in figures in movement, and form