Art, Architecture & Design

This book is an excellent tool for learning to sketch on location. Through the "no drawing first" technique, readers will learn to use only watercolour and a brush to draw in notebooks, make quick urban sketches, keep visual journals and create...

What if you could sit down with your favourite artist and ask them anything you liked - Life? Work? Inspiration? Based on new interviews and archival material from a huge roster of artists, this book does exactly that. Is art a 'career', a vocation or...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale-such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus-and more intimate statuettes and small-scale functional objects. Bronze, being both costly and luxurious,...

Explore 35 step-by-step how-tos and more than 100 additional tips and tricks for creating a variety of manga characters, animals, and scenes in The Art of Drawing Manga. With 144 pages of in-depth instruction and hundreds of reference images, The Art of...

"Assassin's Creed" steps into a brand new era. With intricately detailed environments and finely-honed and evocative historical reimaginings, this is a world into which you can immerse yourself and feel the echoes of the past come to life. Continuing in...

A powerful reframing of the study of Black art and the historical and contemporary status of Black livesPerceptual Drift offers a new interpretive model drawing on four key works of Black art in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. In its chapters,...

Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skills and build a repertoire of fantasy female subjects, this title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years old. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows readers how to draw dozens of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148659Author Matt JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879399Author Byron HawesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Clothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Indeed, clothing has the power to define people and their generation. Recognizing this...

Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her friends, her hopes, dreams and fears, and then he works it up into a comic strip. This book consists of 52 of...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFeaturing 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of visually...

In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series "The Heroes" and "New Types", which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking...

Written for fashion graduates, newbie entrepreneurs and those in entry-level positions in the industry, Blue is the New Black demystifies the process of how to make a fashion collection accessible for all levels. It's a reference guide, a buddy, and an...

"As an art critic, [Hickey] doesn't do what most people want from art criticism. He doesn't provide his readers with a neat intellectual framework through which to view everything they see, like a Clement Greenberg or a Michael Fried, and he doesn't...

The immediate physical presence of color is central to Katharina Grosse's creative endeavor. Through an open-ended creative process in which painting takes on the form of a performance, color embodies movement, making its emotional potential tangible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506711041Author UbisoftFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500500699Author Ewan McEoinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Paul Cezanne, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and many others - between 1936 and 1956 the Swiss industrialist Emil Buhrle (1890-1956) assembled an impressive collection around French Impressionism. As the owner of the largest weapons factory in the country...

"... visually stunning and mentally stimulating."-Scientific American"...the author of What Painting Is (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to...

Learn how to draw with easy, stress-free lessons designed to build a solid foundation for drawing in just 15 minutes. Starting with pencil techniques and warm-up exercises,15-Minute Drawing: Getting Started guides you in exploring the basics of drawing...

Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people's engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198751Author Jon B. CookeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

The 'roaring twenties' were exciting years for women's fashion. The iconic image is of the young 'flapper' dancing the night away in a sparkling dress with fringes and tassels moving to the beat of the Jazz age. But, for all women in the post-war years...

Design beautiful, professional-level animated effects with these detailed step-by-step tutorials from former Disney animator and animated effects expert Joseph Gilland. Filled with beautiful, full-color artwork, Elemental Magic, Volume II, breaks down...

Take the first step to creating the home of your dreams . . .We all love our homes, but sometimes they can frustrate us. With underused spaces, cluttered living rooms, neglected hallways, impractical kitchens and lack of storage, the list of things we'd...

A look at a leading Peruvian architectural firm through 12 exemplary projects From their Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize-winning design for the University of Piura educational facilities to their design for the Place of Remembrance in Lima, Barclay &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958602Author Spencer KansaFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231033Author Junior TomlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

This title offers solid and in-depth instruction from a watermedia expert and top author. It includes tips and techniques for developing a personal style. Quiller is a well established name is the art world. He has sold over 100, 000 books worldwide.Join...

In their February 2021 issue, Vogue launched The United States of Fashion, a project that shines a spotlight on the creativity and craft flourishing throughout the country. Exploring the innovation and entrepreneurialism that defines American fashion,...

Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. Chibis appear in all genres of manga, from the serious to the broadly comedic, which is why they enjoy such a high recognition factor among manga readers. And because chibis are...

Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786275769Author Denis AntoineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King Publishing

Learn to use colored pencils and watercolor pencils to create vibrant, exciting works of art! *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*Modern Colored Pencil delves into all the basic techniques and concepts...

The youngest member of the Blauer Reiter group was overshadowed for a long time by fellow painters such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Paul Klee. But in recent years, Heinrich Campendonk has enjoyed an unparalleled rediscovery and a...

Delve behind the scenes of artist Eric Guillon's artwork for Illumination and Entertainment's popular films, including Despicable Me, Sing, and upcoming The Secret Life of Pets 2. Illumination Entertainment has produced some of this century's most...

A facsimile edition of the 'little anthology' of favourite poems compiled and illustrated by Rex Whistler in 1923. This is a personal collection, hand-written and embellished, by a young artist who had recently discovered poetry. Rex Whistler was just...

"Architecture is experienced as one roams about in it and walks through it... So true is this that architectural works can be divided into dead and living ones depending on whether the law of 'roaming through' has not been observed or whether on the...

Supremacy Software is the world's largest video-game developer and publisher. If you've played games, you've played one of theirs at some point. They're the shining light, a dream job for many aspiring game developers.Who Hunts the Whale tells the story...