Author: Burne Hogarth
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: art, books, practical, hands, dynamic, drawing
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1988-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0823013685
ISBN-13: 9780823013685

The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands uses a revolutionary system for visualizing the hand in an almost infinite number of positions.

Author: Burne Hogarth
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: art, books, practical, head, human, drawing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0823013766
ISBN-13: 9780823013760

Using a series of 300 drawings and diagrams, the author analyzes the basic structure, anatomy and proportions of the human head. He delineates the musculature of every facial feature, explains wrinkle patterns and demonstrates how to draw the head from every angle. The text explains how to age the face from infancy to old age, and defines a diverse array of head types by structure, explaining their proportions and the features that go with them. Works by such artists as Vermeer, Degas and Picasso supplement the author’s own drawings throughout the text.

Author: Grant Reid
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: graphics, landscape
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0823073335
ISBN-13: 9780823073337

Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspe

Authors:Steven Heller, Gail Anderso,
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: fonts, digital, classic, type, vintage, new
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0823099598
ISBN-13: 9780823099597

Retro is the new modern. And nowhere is that fact more evident than in typography, which today uses vintage type in ads, book and magazine design, movies, and everywhere words convey meaning. Viewers may not even realize that the type itself conveys mood, information, and a sense of style, but graphic designers know the power of vintage type. Now the world’s foremost historian of graphic design presents New Vintage Type, a remarkable rethinking and rediscovery of old and classic typefaces for today’s modern needs. Hundreds of amazing, astounding, and obscure examples from around the world

Author: Linda Maso
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: beauty, art, makeup
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0823099792
ISBN-13: 9780823099795

Now available in a paperback edition for the first time, Makeup: The Art of Beauty is an elegant yet practical guide to styling makeup. From sophisticated high style to trendy freestyle, from Hollywood glamour to that wholesome just-scrubbed glow, there’s a look here for every woman. Professional makeup artist Linda Mason takes the reader, whatever her age, step by step through the entire process of creating an unforgettable look for any occasion. Written for the individual as well as the aspiring makeup professional, Makeup provides readers with straightforward advice and proven tips on cho

Author: Burne Hogarth
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: art, books, practical, shade, light, dynamic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0823015815
ISBN-13: 9780823015818

Mastery of light and shade - rendered with accuracy and expressive power - is the key to three-dimensional form in drawing and painting. Here is the first book on this essential subject, the product of years of study by one of the world’s great teachers of drawing and an artist of international renown, Burne Hogarth.Hogarth begins with the simplist kind of light and shade, showing how a dark silhouette on white paper can communicate form and space. He then shows how the silhouette is transformed into three dimensions with the addition of minimal light - the highlight.Following these inst

Author: Douglas R. Grave
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: oil, painting, figure
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1989-08-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0823017036
ISBN-13: 9780823017034

This systematic approach to painting the nude figure in oils provides clear, step-by-step instructions suitable for both beginning and intermediate artists. It opens with a survey of painting materials and then reviews the proportions of the figure and the fundamentals of anatomy. Through a demonstration painted from a plaster cast figure the author goes on to explain how to observe and represent hues, tones and values in a figure painting. The book includes 24 projects which show how to paint each part of the body individually, and exercises illustrating how to use this knowledge to best adva