Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain : How to Come Up With Jokes for Cartoons and Comic Strips

English | Publisher: Watson-Guttill | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 162 pages | 12 MB
The most frequent question comic strip artists hear is, "Where do you get your idea?" They'll respond with an "Aw,shucks," and mumble something self-effacing - but notice that they don't know how they do it? They produce a comic strip everyday of their lives, but you really think that a mystery to them?.....................

Review
Hart, a regular contributor to Mad Magazine and a comedy screenwriter, has produced a manual with equal emphasis on the art of cartooning and the art of comedy. He has the requisite chapters on how to draw funny characters, but he comes into his own when he analyses pacing and rhythm, set-up and punch lines, and the differences between dramatic and comedic scenes. Certain words, he maintains, are ordinary and certain ones funny (e.g., fat is ordinary, bloated is funny, four is ordinary, five is funny?as are all odd numbers). This and Robin Hall's The Cartoonist's Workbook: Drawing, Writing Gags, Selling (LJ 11/15/97) are the two best such books available.

Download:- Filesonic

Drawing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Publisher: For Dummies (February 22, 2011) | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0470618426 | PDF | 34 MB
The fast and easy way to learn to draw

Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from your imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn the drawing basics. Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, it gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques.

This revised edition of one of the most successful For Dummies guides includes:

* Additional step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, still life, and more
* Coverage of effects, composition, and perspective
* How-to art projects that show you how to create your drawings from simple geometric shapes to finished artwork

It's never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies, 2nd edition put you on the road to discovery and self-expression through drawing.

Download:- Filesonic

Face Off : How to Draw Amazing Caricatures & Comic Portraits

Impact (2006) | Pages: 128 | ISBN-10: 9781581807592 | PDF | English
The New Authoritative Guide on Drawing Cool Comic Portraits *Features 30 step-by-step demonstrations for easy reference *Presented with a sense of humor and a cool design to set it apart from dated competitors *Appealsl to the wide trade market of 13-year-old-plus beginners Anyone can learn to draw sharp and cool caricatures with Face Off. Presented in an entertaining style, the easy-to-learn techniques and basic processes will make the art of comic portrait drawing simple, even for young beginners. Readers will learn how to draw specific features for the front, ?, and profile views, as well as how to color their art and find inspiration from a gallery of collected works.

Download:-  Filesonic

Working Drawings Handbook By Keith Styles

Architectural Press 1995 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 0750624949 | PDF


Covering every aspect of drawing preparation, both manual and computer-aided, this comprehensive manual is an essential tool for students, architects and architectural technologists. Showing what information is required on each type of document, how drawings relate to specifications, and how to organize and document your work, this handbook presents a fully illustrated guide to all the key methods and techniques.

Thoroughly revised and redesigned, this fourth edition has brand new computer-generated drawings throughout and is updated to cover all aspects of computer use in the modern building design process.

1. A working tool that provides practical help, written in an accessible style
2. A comprehensive guide presenting not only what to draw, but how and in what sequence
3. Stylishly presented and concise content makes it easy to learn methods and techniques

Review
'This book must be essential reading for all involved in the production of building drawings.'
- ASI Journal

'A handy manual showing how to produce clear and effective working drawings.'
- RIBA Journal


Download:- Filesonic

Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history

Architectural Press (2005) | English | 224 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect's life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect's thinking and intentions.

As creative designers themselves, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think and draw and approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight.

Listed chronologically each sketch will be accompanied by a text which provides: A short synopsis/history of the architect's life; a look at the sketch in this context; the connection to a specific building (where appropriate); techniques of the sketch: style and media; meaning - what the sketch shows about the architect's thinking and intentions followed by a select bibliography for each section.

· Sketches from prominent architects, drawn from an international selection
· A unique insight into how architects use sketches to develop and transfer complex concepts into physical form, enabling readers to improve the connection between their own ideas and designs
· Reveals the secrets of the most successful sketching techniques used by architects for today's designers

Download:- Filesonic

Architects Sketches - Dialogue and Design

Architectural Press 2008 | English | 152 Pages | ISBN: 0750682264 | PDF
Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into the relationship between architectural sketches and the process of creative manipulation. Sketches comprise a thinking mechanism, and through the qualities of ambiguity, quickness and change, they initiate a dialogue for architects. As a medium to facilitate communication, recording, discovery and evaluation, their pertinence lies in their ability to exhibit both the precise and the imprecise. Exploring four related theoretical approaches, play, memory-imagination-fantasy, caricature and the grotesque, the book shows how imprecision stimulates imagination to conceive new forms in the dialogue of architectural sketches.

* Beautifully presented work with a wealth of illustrations
* Uses examples from architects past and present to show the evolution of the architectural sketch
* Describes the use of simple sketches to convey complex abstract ideas

About the Author
By Kendra Schank Smith, PhD in History, Theory, Criticism, and Representation, Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Utah, USA

Download:- Filesonic

Zoo Publishing - Speed Painting Vol.1

Publisher: Zoo Publishing | 2008 | English | ISBN: N/A | 102 pages | PDF | 74 Mb
This 102-page eBook is a collection of Speed Painting tutorials, which have been created by some of the top digital painters around today. The idea behind this tutorial series was for the artist to interpret a one-line descriptive brief, create a speed painting from it and then produce a tutorial showing and explaining each stage of production of the artwork. Some of the artists have also kindly created some unique brushes which can be downloaded at the end of their Speed Painting tutorials. This downloadable PDF eBook can be followed in most 2D software packages that support paintbrushes and layers.

Download:- Filesonic

The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation (2010)

Course Technology (June 17, 2010) | English | PDF | 352 Pages | PDF
Take an in-depth look at the art and techniques of stop-motion animation. The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation helps experienced stop-motion artists enhance their craft by exploring the professional methods and advanced technology used by top film studios today. This book features expanded coverage of the basic principles of animation, including specific applications for character performance and visual effect compositing techniques. All the newest technology is touched on, including detailed information on camera rigs, effects, and shooting stop-motion in stereoscopic 3D. Discover new puppet building techniques, including the technology behind the rapid prototyping of computer models for stop-motion production. You'll even find a thorough history of early feature-length stop-motion films. The practical techniques and skills presented are enhanced by interviews with many of the most celebrated stop-motion artists as well as coverage of the work of several artists working in the online stop-motion community. Whether your focus is low-budget indie filmmaking or big studio productions, The Advanced Art of Stop-Motion Animation provides a comprehensive look at both the latest methods and the artists who are driving the revival of stop-motion animation.

Download:-  Hotfile

Why We Make Art: And Why it is Taught

178 pages | Publisher: Intellect Ltd | English | ISBN 184150-9299 | PDF
Does art have any use or real purpose in today’s society? Why do governments around the world spend millions on art education? Rejecting the vogue for social and cultural accounts of the nature of art-making, this book is largely psychological in its approach to discussing art-making and its place in education.

The ‘we’ in the title is intentionally polemical, with the author claiming a universal, i.e. pan-cultural basis for ‘art’-making activities - or rather activities which can be described as ‘creating aesthetic significance’. Developmental issues in art education are examined, together with the nature of learning in art, with reference to concept acquisition.

Section two of the four sections which comprise the book, focuses upon some ‘mini case-studies’, detailing conversations with people talking about their art-making, together with some autobiographical reflections. Section three then considers the issues in art and learning which can be gleaned from various respondents’ accounts of their making activities; these include the nature of the artistic personality and the role of art in self-identity and self-esteem. Other topics touched upon include imagination, expression and creativity. The concluding section examines the notion of creating aesthetic significance as a fundamental human urge, drawing upon work done in evolutionary psychology.

Whilst questioning whether schools as they are currently conceived are the best places for teaching and learning anything, an art curriculum based upon the acquisition of ‘threshold skills’, such as drawing, together with a gradual introduction to the appreciation of visual form is advocated. Declaring that schools of the early twenty-first century will soon be seen as as dated as the Victorian workhouse, the successful art room, with a learner-centred rather than discipline-centred philosophy is put forward as a model for schools and schooling.

Download:- Hotfile

Drawing lessons - Illustrated Lesson Notes for Teachers and Students

English | PDF | 348 pages | 9,4 MB
This is a drawing lessons for students who need to learn to draw and teachers who require practical lesson notes. We aim for improved visual literacy and begin with the basicsall the lessons by John Hagan is currently being used by over 350 US and 110 international schools, colleges and universities by teachers, for their classroom lesson plans, and students for their practical education.

Download:- Hotfile

Chinese Ink Painting: Techniques in Shades of Black

Blandford | 1984 | English | ISBN: 0713714905 | PDF | 128 pages | 25.4MB
Chinese brush painting, is admired and emulated by artists the world over. This beautiful and inspiring book shows painters of all interests and skill levels how to achieve the fluid, spontaneous style of this unique art form.

Through 12 step-by-step projects, readers will learn how to paint a range of popular subjects using traditional Chinese inks, brushes and papers. Projects gradually increase in difficulty, and feature such subjects as swallows, bamboo, wild orchids, plum blossoms, pandas, horses, peonies and more.

An introductory chapter explains the traditional materials used with this style of painting, its subjects and its composition. There is also an in-depth section on technique that covers everything from holding brushes to mastering brush strokes.

Download:- Hotfile

Lifelike Drawing In Colored Pencil With Lee Hammond

144 pages | Publisher: North Light Books; (October 15, 2008) | English | ISBN-10: 1600610374 | 31 MB
Features over 40 step-by-step projects using basic techniques and readily available supplies.

Ideal for beginning artists and hobbyists learning basic colored pencil as well as more experienced artists looking to perfect their technique.

Readers will learn to draw flowers, people, animals, metal, brass, sunsets, water, glass and more using reference photos, simple techniques and clear step-by-step instruction. She includes before-and-after examples from her students that prove how her simple graphing techniques translate into remarkable drawings.

About the Author
A professional artist and instructor for 20+ years, Lee Hammond has authored 21 North Light books. She previously owned and operated the Midwest School of Art in Lenexa, Kansas, and now has a studio in Overland Park where she teaches. She conducts drawing seminars, gives school lectures and mentors nationwide. Lee is a certified police composite artist, and she has worked with the television series, America's Most Wanted, in addition to licensing art for NASCAR.

Download:- Hotfile

The Best Paper Airplanes You'll Ever Fly (Klutz Guides)

Klutz; illustrated edition | English | PDF | ISBN-10: 1570541787
The Best Paper Airplanes You''ll Ever Fly has been tested by high-school aviators to ensure that they are the best. It contains folding instructions and flying infor mation. '

Three simple designs are here, guaranteed to be "the best paper airplanes on the planet." We cannot certify that, but the ones we made flew splendidly. The authors are proud of record indoor flights of between 60 and 80 feet, hand-launched. This small guide is as close to physics as to technology, for it suggests the principles of good results--although it also includes precise instructions for the folding. You have to trim a paper airplane; if not, it will fly like a rock. "This is not an opinion. It is a guarantee," and grade-school builders are not excepted. Symmetry is the aim, carefully secured. "The left side MUST look just like the right." Here is how to check on that and how to adjust, with five troubleshooting hints, plus launch instructions for indoors and out. Take care. (Outdoors you might hit a thermal, and your plane can really go out of sight.)

Download:- Hotfile

The Origami Bible 2009

Search Press Ltd | 2009 | ISBN: 184448467X | 192 pages | PDF | 59,2 MB
With easy-to-follow diagrams and step-by-step instructions, learn simple fold sequences that can be used as the base for hundreds of different designs, then combine them to create over 50 specially chosen projects that will charm and entertain. Be inspired by a gorgeous gallery of origami from around the world - and use newly learnt techniques to fold your own creations and designs. Whether you fold for fun and relaxation, to create useful dishes and boxes, or to amuse and fascinate children, this is an essential reference for the beginner and experienced folder alike.

Download:- Hotfile

Crochet Bouquet: Easy Designs for Dozens of Flowers

Publisher: Lark Books | ISBN: 1600591248 | edition 2008 | PDF | 128 pages | 34,7 mb
Crochet bouquets of nearly 50 whimsical, wonderful flowers, in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors! Done in upscale yarns like ribbon, chenille, and silk, this contemporary garden will get intermediate-level crocheters grasping their hooks. Some of the flora looks realistic; others are beautifully fanciful, pure products of the imagination. A simple, well-photographed basics section explains how to create them all: specialty techniques include felting, stacking the flowers, stiffening the petals, and linking the flowers together. “Grow” daffodils, dahlias, ferns, firewheels, primroses, sunflowers, and violets—or even a fantastic blossom with layers of scalloped petals radiating out in increasing size from a crystal button center. For added inspiration, a series of showcase projects incorporates the blossoms, including hats, backpacks, pillows, and cards.

Download:- Hotfile

Advanced Championship Paper Planes: 12 Original Designs from International Origami Designer

33 pages | Publisher: Flying Frog Publishing | PDF | English
Everyone loves a paper plane. Here are over 30 desings -- simple planes for beginners, advanced planes for the ambitious, and wacky, unusual desings for those who just want to be convinced that anything will fly.

Download:- Hotfile

Fun With Papers

Publisher: Jyotsna Prakashan | ISBN : 8179251438 | 2006 | 38 pages | PDF | 8.1 Mb
“Making simple toys such as a butterfly, a bird or a helicopter using paper is an exciting art. It is not only amusement but also an exercise in logic and science. Children learn by doing things themselves. Activities such as these enhance their creativity, craftsmanship and confidence. In this book you will learn how to make frog, butterfly, helicopter, Mobius strips, cracker, camera, fish etc. from paper.”

Download:- Hotfile

Classic Origami

Apple P | ISBN: 1850762465 | 80 pages | PDF
Own it. Give it. This book is worth the price for the arched back cat fold alone. But the bonus fold is the Sampan. This book has an excellent balance of verbal and diagram instructions. Beautiful color pictures with exceptional detail.
This book shows how to make folded paper creations, from the basics to intricate Eastern and Western designs, including easy-to-follow diagrams and step-by-step instructions for each design.

Download:- Hotfile

Draw Your Own Celtic Designs

David & Charles Publishers | 128 pages | ISBN: 0715315250 | PDF | 19 MB
An indispensable, step-by-step guide to drawing a wide variety of Celtic designs - for artists and crafters working in all media.

Starting with an illustrated introduction to the Celts and the development of Celtic design, the author places the book's designs into their historical context.

The following chapters examine each of the main Celtic patterns in turn: knots, spirals, key patterns, animals and beasts, and Celtic lettering. Each chapter opens with a large colour illustration to inspire readers in ways of incorporating the design into their own work. This is followed by a short introduction to the range of patterns that fall into this design category, along with photos of Celtic artefacts. The rest of the chapter consists of 16 design pages, each containing a specially commissioned step-by-step artwork for readers to follow. Beautiful to look at, and exquisitely executed in themselves, each artwork has been carefully constructed so that readers can follow its build up from start to finish with no possibility of error. The chapter on Celtic lettering contains a specially commissioned double-page artwork of the Celtic alphabet for readers to copy, and is followed by instructions on how to embellish each of the letter forms in Celtic styles.

Download:- Hotfile

Drawing the Human Head

164 pages | English | PDF | 25 MB
In 300 extraordinary drawings, Hogarth shows how to draw the head from every angle, age the face from infancy to old age, and delineate every feature and wrinkle.

About the Author
Burne Hogarth’s (1911–1996) remarkable career spanned over 60 years. He wore many hats in the worlds of fine art, art education, and art publishing. He is most famous for his internationally syndicated Sunday newspaper color page feature “Tarzan” (1937–1950) and for his illustrated adaptations of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels Tarzan of the Apes and Jungle Tales of Tarzan. A co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Hogarth remains one of the most influential figures in art education today.

Download:- Hotfile