Author: Samantha Dion Baker Publisher: Watson-Guptill ISBN: 0399581308 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 146
Book Description
An instructive guide to creating an illustrated journal based on artist and Instagram sensation Samantha Dion Baker's unique creative process, featuring information on materials, creative inspiration and instruction, prompts, and helpful tips and tricks. Samantha Dion Baker is a widely admired and followed artist on Instagram, where she shares her "sketch journal," an illustrated daily record of her life, drawn in a fresh, modern style. In Draw Your Day, Baker guides you through her inspirational practice and provides guidance for starting your own. Part instructional guide and part encouraging manifesto about how making art--even art that's not museum-worthy--can make your life more mindful and meaningful, Draw Your Day is ideal for both seasoned artists looking for fresh inspiration, as well as aspiring artists who need a friendly nudge to get started.
Author: Samantha Dion Baker Publisher: Watson-Guptill ISBN: 1984858203 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 178
Book Description
See the world around you in a whole new way with this inspiring guide to nature drawing, urban sketching, travel drawing, drawing from memory or photos, and sketch journaling. In Draw Your World, Samantha Dion Baker gives you everything you need to begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one. She shares her favorite tools and materials, simple technical lessons such as composition, shadows and light, symmetry, and perspective, plus fun motivational exercises like drawing from memory, urban sketching, travel journaling, and experimental art. With helpful step-by-steps and stunning visual examples from Baker's own work, Draw Your World will help you hone your skills and capture the details of your unique and remarkable life in a sketch journal or as finished artwork.
Author: Daniel Arsham Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691234264 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mind Sketchbook reproduces original working drawings and sketches by the contemporary American artist and designer Daniel Arsham, whose work freely crosses the boundaries of art, architecture, film, and design, and also speaks to fans of pop culture, including sneakerheads, car enthusiasts, and anime devotees. Spanning a decade and featuring previously unpublished drawings by this highly skilled draftsman, this beautifully produced facsimile edition provides an unprecedented, intimate look at Arsham’s working process, revealing a new side of an extraordinary creative mind. Published in association with No More Rulers
Author: Jan Beaney Publisher: ISBN: 9780954601416 Category : Artists' books Languages : en Pages : 0
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"In this booklet we explore different formats and papers as well as a variety of methods and media. Our aims are both to encourage those lacking in confidence and, for the more experianced, to find challenging and innovative ways of extending their vocabulary."--Page 1.
Author: John Muir Laws Publisher: Heyday Books ISBN: 9781597145381 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Created with the beginning nature journalist in mind, The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling hardcover blank journal is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in the practice and joy of getting out, observing, and recording nature. Including tips, advice, and practical information from master nature journalist John Muir Laws from what makes up a well-stocked nature journaling field kit to how to estimate the degrees of an arc The Laws Sketchbook for Nature Journaling is the ideal companion when out in the field.
Author: James Gurney Publisher: ISBN: 9781524892937 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A bold new edition of the groundbreaking book by two of America's most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators. Since its release in 1982, The Artist's Guide to Sketching has become a classic art guide for students and laypeople around the world. The book includes instruction and artwork by James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade--two students who would go on to fame with Dinotopia (Gurney) and as the "Painter of Light" (Kinkade). This new edition restores the classic text with updated visuals and a special section chronicling the book's origins and the friendship, drawing on archives from Gurney and the Kinkade family estate. Chapters and topics include: Chapter 1: THE EXPERIENCE OF SKETCHING (Coping with the Weather, Sketching at Night, Sitting or Standing?, Dealing with Curious Spectators, Being Inconspicuous, At Home Amid the Elements Chapter 2: MATERIALS (Sketchbooks, Pencils, Pens, Markers, Wash and Drybrush, Sketchboxes and Carrying Cases, Experiencing Your Materials) Chapter 3: ACHIEVING ACCURACY: (When to Use an Underdrawing, How Much Underdrawing is Necessary, Establishing the Large Shapes, Measuring Lengths, Measuring Slopes, Using Perspective Guidelines, Constructing with Geometric Forms, Completed Underdrawing, The Final Execution) Chapter 4: CAPTURING MOTION (Freezing Motion: A New Way of Drawing, Learning to Observe Motion, Training Your Memory, Getting It Down Fast, The Scribble Approach, The Gestural Approach, The Mannikin Approach, The Tonal Mass Approach, When Your Subject Moves Unexpectedly, Places to Go for Motion Sketching) Chapter 5: CREATING MOOD (Choosing a Subject, Noting Impressions, Composing with Thumbnails, Selectivity, Center of Interest, Dramatic Opposition, Delicacy, Mystery, Structure and Expression) Chapter 6: USING IMAGINATION (Dare to be Creative, Being Imaginative On-the-Spot, Exaggeration, Changing Context and Scale, Using Anthropomorphism, Additions and Combinations, Feeding the Imagination, Becoming More Imaginative) Chapter 7: STUDYING NATURE (Nature: Your Personal Drawing Workshop, The Experience of Nature Sketching, Plants, Animals, Sketching at the Zoo, Natural History Museum, Clouds, Rocks and Landforms, The Benefits of Studying Nature) Chapter 8: SKETCHING PEOPLE (Finding Raw Material, Exaggerating Character Traits, The Cartoon Approach, Portraying People in Their Environment, Two Characters, Group Composition, The On-The-Spot Portrait, Making People Sketches Come Alive, Family and Friends: Your Free Models) Chapter 9: EXPLORING THE MAN-MADE WORLD (Begin with the Commonplace, Sketching the Home, Indicating Building Exteriors, Signs and Letterforms, A New Look at Machines, Using Clutter, On-The-Spot Spot Research, Using Written Notes, Thinking As a Documentary Artist, The Joy of Exploration) Chapter 10: SKETCHING IN YOUR LIFE (Keeping Specialized Sketchbooks, Developing Sketches into Paintings, Sharing Sketches With Others, Sketching Alone or With Others)
Author: Samantha Dion Baker Publisher: Clarkson Potter ISBN: 0525572953 Category : Diaries Languages : en Pages : 0
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A stylish watercolor sketchpad featuring creative prompts and art by Instagram artist Samantha Dion Baker. Keeping an art practice is fun and mindful way to foster creativity in your life, but it can be too easy to find yourself staring at a blank page trying to think of where to start. Superstar Instagram artist Samantha Dion Baker never lacks for artistic inspiration, recording everything from major happenings to the most minor details of her daily life in her sketchbook. In The Daily Guided Sketchbook, Sam shares a wide variety of art prompts that will inspire you to just get drawing, painting, and collaging. From simple and strightforward prompts like "draw a pattern found in nature" to more evocative art challenges ("make a chart of the emotions you've been feeling lately"), this stylish guided sketchpad is gauranteed to get your creative juices flowing.
Author: RWG Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359593267 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
6" X 9", Blank Artist Sketchbook: 100 pages, Sketching, Drawing and Creative Doodling. Notebook and Sketchbook to Draw and Journal (Workbook and Handbook). This is perfect for every artist and writer.
Author: RWG Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359613373 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
6" X 9", Blank Artist Sketchbook: 50 pages, Sketching, Drawing and Creative Doodling. Notebook and Sketchbook to Draw and Journal (Workbook and Handbook). This is perfect for every artist and writer.
Author: RWG Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359613349 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
6" X 9", Blank Artist Sketchbook: 50 pages, Sketching, Drawing and Creative Doodling. Notebook and Sketchbook to Draw and Journal (Workbook and Handbook). This is perfect for every artist and writer.
Author: Samantha Dion Baker
Author: Samantha Dion Baker
Author: Daniel Arsham
Author: Jan Beaney
Author: John Muir Laws
Author: James Gurney
Author: Samantha Dion Baker
Author: RWG
Author: RWG
Author: RWG