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Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans
The power of creation is at your fingertips!
Orcs prepare for battle against high Elves, Dwarves retreat to the mountains and men march to the sea to reclaim crumbling fortresses. Fortunes are decided. Kingdoms are lost. Entire worlds are created.
This book will teach you to bring your fictional realm to life with simple step-by-step... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $11.99
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It's the most mammoth book of manga drawing EVER!
If there's one key to drawing manga, it's GO BIG--starting with this humongous book of step-by-step instruction and inspiration.
Compiled from nearly 10 years of best-selling books by David Okum, these pages are teeming with the most popular characters--ninjas, wizards, cyberpunk kids, space pirates, evil queens, mindless goons and more--all broken... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $11.99
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 It's THE book on manga from YouTube's most popular art instruction Guru!
There's more to manga than big, shiny eyes and funky hair. In these action-packed pages, graphic novelist Mark Crilley shows you step-by-step how to achieve an authentic manga style—from drawing faces and figures to laying out awesome, high-drama spreads. You'll learn how a few basic lines will help you place facial... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Mastering Manga, How to Draw Manga Faces is an excerpt from Mastering Manga With Mark Crilley. True manga style is about more than big eyed characters, but Mark's lessons ensure that you can get them right, whether the character is facing you straight on, at an angle, or in profile.
With lessons on hair styles for boys and girls, and different expressions, you'll get everything you need to know to... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$5.99 $2.99
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 20 step-by-step demonstrations
How To Draw Lifelike Portraits From Photographs, Revised
Lee Hammond is back and better than ever, featuring all new step-by-step demonstrations that will have you drawing your best portraits yet. Her secret to success? The "Hammond Blended Pencil Technique," a proven method of shading and blending that captures the soft tones and dimensional shapes of skin,... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $16.99
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 Recycle, Reuse, Reinvent!
With Mixed Media Revolution, you'll learn how to leverage your art and take your paintings and transfers to the next level!
Leftovers, little bits and scraps, pieces of art that didn't turn out quite right...we all have them. And it hurts to have to throw them away. But what if someone could suggest another way? Another way, perhaps, to get one more use out of that... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $14.99
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 Art Journal Color! Art Journal Composition! Art Journal Freedom!
Color is all around us and we often find ourselves drawn to particular combinations or arrangements. But how can you effectively and artistically capture those eye-catching compositions in your art journal?
It's true, art journaling has no "rules" and is a safe place for free expression of your one-of-a-kind life. But knowledge... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $15.99
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 Imagine perspective without pain—no T-squares, complicated equations or mechanical terms—just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step further—imagine having fun with perspective. With this book, you will. Here Phil Metzger give you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms—with a lot of... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$21.99 $12.99
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 52 Art Ideas, Projects and Exercises to Overcome Your Creativity Block
Paint outside the lines!
Jumpstart your creativity and inject new life into your art.
Struggling to get started? Paralyzed by the fear of failure? Find yourself falling back on the same colors again and again? Just plain stuck? It happens to every artist sooner or later. What can you do to get unstuck... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $15.99
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 Dogs, Cats, Birds, Horses and More
Turn your love of animals into art you adore!
From her family farm in Kentucky, artist Jeanne Filler Scott spends her days joyfully surrounded by pets, barnyard animals and wildlife. In this book, she shares her love of animals and her easy techniques for capturing their beauty and charm in acrylics, oils and pencil.
50 paint-along... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $15.99
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 The Gloryhound Guide to Photoshop: Basics will teach what is often thought to be un-teachable and allow new users to dive into Photoshop without ever having opened the program before. It’s also a handy guide for intermediate Photoshop users who want a quick-reference for the various tools and menus which Photoshop has to offer. Features include:
Over 40 pages of content,... [click here for more] |
Gloryhound Network |
FREE
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 Make the Web Work for You
You know how to design. But you can increase your value as a designer in the marketplace by learning how to make that design function on the web. From informational sites to e-commerce portals to blogs to mobile apps, The Designer's Web Handbook helps any designer understand the full life cycle of a digital product: idea, design, production and maintenance.
The best... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$35.00 $20.99
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 The Jargon-free Guide for Creative Entrepreneurs
This user-friendly and attractive guide shows creative people how to turn their hobbies into sustainable lifestyle businesses.
Based on a unique 10-question formula, the book provides comprehensive start-up business advice.
The jargon-free information is brought to life with real-life case studies from a range of creative start-ups... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Easy techniques for true-to-life portraits!
If you think all portrait-painting books are the same, think again. This book will inspire you to approach your canvas with renewed (or newly discovered) enthusiasm and confidence. Using modern-day techniques, Luana Luconi Winner shows you how to capture not only a physical likeness, but also the personality and unique, natural expression of your subject.... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $17.99
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 An Artist's Guide to Creating Mythical Creatures
Unleash the Beasts!
For millennia historians, artists and scientists have chronicled their ideas and discoveries of mythological and magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America, Japan to the jungles of South Africa, the vast menagerie of exotic and legendary creatures has populated the imaginations of all cultures... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $15.99
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 How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals
How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animal
What do you get when you cross a human with a horse (or a hamster, or a hummingbird)? You get any one of a number of fun anthropomorphic animals, also known as "furries" to their friends. From facial expressions to creative coloring, this book contains all the know-how... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 How to Draw Cool Looks and Characters
The Number One Fashion Workshop for Shojo Manga!
From 'dos to shoes, how you dress and style your characters says a lot about who they are, before they even utter a word. Whether your story calls for a flashy drama queen or a mousy bookworm, this guide contains everything you need to know to create fabulous shojo manga... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Easy Techniques for drawing people, animals, flowers and nature
This is the book that can teach anyone to draw (yes, even you!)
If you're not getting the kind of true-to-life results you want in your drawings (or if you can't even draw a straight line), Carrie and Rick Parks can help. As award-winning teachers, they have a proven game plan for helping artists... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $14.99
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 Make your first steps in calligraphy fun and rewarding!
You'll be delighted at how easy this guide makes it to address invitations with a touch of class, send unforgettable greeting cards, and craft unique and meaningful gifts.
With Don Marsh's simple and straightforward instruction, you'll be creating graceful handwritten expressions in no time! By learning a few key strokes (most of them found... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$18.99 $11.99
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 Easy-to-follow demonstrations show you how to use colored pencils to paint trees, flowers, animals, people and other popular subjects.
The colored pencil is an easy-to-use, inexpensive and incredibly expressive medium. And nobody is more skilled with the pencil than Bet Borgeson.
Using many visual examples to illustrate her points, Bet will teach you how to use layering, burnishing, lifting color... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$17.99 $10.99
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 Claudia Nice shows you how to turn ink and watercolors into the coarse-barked trunk of an oak, or the burnished smoothness of brass, or the verdant velvet of moss. Or any of many other things. She shows you how to use dots, fine lines, brushstrokes, black and white, color—a mixture of mediums and techniques—to suggest:
glass
cast iron
adobe and brick
sunrise and sunset
driftwood
leaf... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Use the right side of your brain to draw and paint what you see - not what you think you see
Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression
Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Your Artist's Brain shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see.
Expert art instructor Carl Purcell... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $16.99
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 The Essential Business Reference for Designers
Want to make your design business a success? Start here.
Fellow Designer,
In your career you may have been like me: Trying to keep projects on the rails and clients happy. Digging through blogs for useful advice. Wondering if there was a better way to handle all of the demands of being a design professional and running a creative... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $17.99
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 How to Create Lettering, Knotwork, Coloring and More
Transform ordinary handwritten pieces into unique, artistic keepsakes, Calligraphy Magic makes the art of decorative lettering fun and achievable—even if you're a beginner.
Take it one simple pen-stroke at a time. Following Cari Buziak's clear visual instruction, you'll learn how to embellish every project with beautifully hand-lettered... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Do your drawings look more like one-dimensional cartoon characters than real animals? With this step-by-step guide, you'll be creating realistic drawings of your pets and other animals in no time!
The secret is seeing and drawing animals as simple shapes that fit together like a puzzle. Next, you create a convincing sense of dimension with shading. It's that easy!
Moving on to the details, Hammond... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$14.99 $8.99
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 Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw.
In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system—fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner.
These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time.
You'll learn how to:
Restore, focus, map, and intensify
Free your... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Drawing Expressions For Comics And Cartoons
Chances are, you already know how to draw some expressions. But face it, your stories can only get so far with "happy," "sad" and "angry." In order to give your characters some character, you need to know what they look like when they're about to sneeze, when they smell something stinky or when... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 A Comprehensive Guide for Exploring Design Directions
Don't Wait for Inspiration to Strike
Whether you're facing a new logo project or you've reached a block in your current work, The Logo Brainstorm Book will inspire you to consider fresh creative approaches that will spark appealing, functional and enduring design solutions.
Award-winning designer Jim Krause (author of the popular Indexseries)... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$39.99 $23.99
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 Over 40 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils
With this easy-to-use handbook, best-selling author Gary Greene provides you with instant access to his best tips, tricks and techniques for creating exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork. Whether you're new to colored pencils or perfecting advanced techniques, you'll find the answers... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $17.99
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 A Glossary of Over 130 Terms for Creative Entrepreneurs
This invaluable glossary of terms can be used alongside Doug's brilliant new book, How to Start a Creative Business, a must-have for any creative-type wanting to start their own venture.
This glossary of terms provides you with the basic tools for starting a sustainable, viable, creative business. It shows... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
FREE
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 A Clear & Easy Guide to Drawing Landscapes & Nature
Have you ever experienced the peace of walking through the woods or the excitement of a storm gathering on a beach? Artwork provides the ability for us to capture those moments and share them with others.
Drawing Nature for the Absolute Beginner offers a great beginner's course on drawing... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Comic book and super-hero fans, rejoice! This volume includes seven scripts—mostly super-hero tales, plus one war/horror story—from a writer whose work has been published by DC Comics, among others. Robert T. Jeschonek has written plenty of scripts in his career, and these seven will shine a light on his writing process, his wild imagination…and some thrilling and thought-provoking... [click here for more] |
Pie Press |
$7.99 $6.99
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 Comic book and superhero fans, rejoice! This volume includes seven scripts—a mix of superheroes, mobsters, horror, and humor—from a writer whose work has been published by DC Comics, among others. Robert Jeschonek has written plenty of scripts in his career, and these seven will shine a light on his writing process, his wild imagination…and some thrilling and thought-provoking adventures.... [click here for more] |
Pie Press |
$6.99
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 Watercolor and Mixed Media Techniques
Paint beautiful and expressive portraits by combining watercolor with other mediums!
What makes an eye-popping, eye-stopping portrait? It's all about contrast and the play of opposites, round shape against square, light against dark, transparent against opaque. Combining mediums allows you to push the inherent properties of each for a lively play of opposites.... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $14.99
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 The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing!
If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2014 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need. Now in its 26th edition, CWIMis the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll find... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $17.99
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 Delve into a world of imagination populated with giant robots, strange vehicles, alien creatures and other fantastic inventions. For generations artists have created imagery destined for the entertainment of others, and now you can too.
Revered science fiction artist and film designer, Doug Chiang, reveals the thought processes and techniques he used working on blockbusters such as the Star Wars... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $13.99
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 Zine Making, a wikibook on how to make your zines, by contributes Mcld and Thenub314, is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 imported license, and here is the URL Address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ You wanna make a zine? Now's your chance to make your very own zine! This very Wiki Book will guide you in the process of making the zine you have always... [click here for more] |
RLS777 |
$2.00 $1.00
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 For over five years Dirk Manning's "Write or Wrong" column at Newsarama has provided aspiring writers with candid advice, anecdotes and inspiration about how to successfully meet artists, create comics, and get them published. At long last, Dirk collects key columns from his popular long-running series with each installment personally revisited by Manning in preparation for the book's release.... [click here for more] |
Caliber Comics |
$9.99
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 Self-Publisher Magazine!
The 76th issue of Self-Publisher Magazine! is here.
This August 2014 issue is one packed with information. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:
Omar Morales Gary Scott Beatty Victor Greywolf Aghori Shaivite
Also included in this issue:
A Sneek Peek at Cruzader A Sneek Peek at Rakan Sabretooth - The Origins of Fakan A Written View by Douglas Owen Distribution... [click here for more] |
Dimestore Productions |
FREE
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 Bring the power of realism to your fantasy drawings!
Great fantasy art transports viewers to a realm where the impossible becomes less so, and all manner of strange beasts and beings dwell. It takes more than fierce imagination to create these worlds. Great reference photos make it easier to draw what you actually see, providing that all-important link to reality that allows fantasy art to take flight.... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$26.99 $14.99
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 Self-Publisher Magazine!
The 77th issue of Self-Publisher Magazine! is here.
This September 2014 issue is one packed with information. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:
George and Claire Lennox Steven Pennella Todd Allen
Also included in this issue:
Sneak Peek! Vietnam Zombie Holocaust A Written View by Douglas Owen The demands of “making it work” by Travis Hanson... [click here for more] |
Dimestore Productions |
FREE
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 Self-Publisher Magazine!
The 78th issue of Self-Publisher Magazine! is here.
This October 2014 issue is one packed with information. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:
Alan Cole, Dave Welcher and Jose Loeri Kasey Quevedo Alex Thompson
Also included in this issue:
IV Armageddon Sneak Peek! Alan Cole, Dave Welcher and Jose Loeri A Written View by Douglas Owen Fishbowl Chronicles... [click here for more] |
Dimestore Productions |
FREE
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 Create fantasy creatures in watercolor!
Mythology, folklore and fantasy fiction are full of fantastical winged creatures like the fiery phoenix, a roaring dragon protecting his hoard, a fierce gryphon warrior and more. Winged Fantasy will teach you everything you need to know about drawing and painting these and many other creatures. From head to tail and toe to wing, you'll be painting winged... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $11.99
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 The most trusted guide to the world of children's publishing!
If you write or illustrate for young readers with the hope of getting published, the 2015 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market is the trusted resource you need.
Now in its 27th edition, CWIM is the definitive publishing guide for anyone who seeks to write or illustrate for kids and young adults. Inside you'll... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$29.99 $8.99
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 A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
Yes, you can!
Known for their friendly, focused, you-can-do-it approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$22.99 $11.99
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 Comics Writing: Communicating With Comic Books unveils the basics in comics writing from Steven Philip Jones, a professional comic book writer and instructor. Comics Writing shows you the step-by-step process of creating a comics script and how it is turned into a finished comics page. With the help of examples and comic book illustrations, this book will introduce you to: the different... [click here for more] |
Caliber Comics |
$14.99 $7.99
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 Self-Publisher Magazine!
The 79th issue of Self-Publisher Magazine! is here.
This November 2014 issue is one packed with information. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:
Aghori Shaivite and Chuck Amadori Mark C. Frankel Michael L. Peters Kenton Daniels Neville Hiatt
Also included in this issue:
Sneak Peek! Empress A Written View by Douglas Owen
Published by Ian Shires, Dimestore... [click here for more] |
Dimestore Productions |
FREE
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 Breathe Life Into Your Fantasy Worlds!
Heroes and heroines seek their fortunes in mysterious forests. Towering castles are built into the sides of mountains. Dragons and fairies soar through the sky and among the stars. And bestselling author Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is here to lead you, step-by-step, through the process of creating the forests, mountains, skies, stars and vistas in which these grand... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $11.99
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 Self-Publisher Magazine!
The 80th issue of Self-Publisher Magazine! is here.
This January 2015 issue is one packed with information. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:
Anthony Zicari Isaac Cordova Arlen Schumer Jamal Igle Malcolm Wong
Also included in this issue:
Sneak Peek! Crimson Butterfly A Written View by Douglas Owen
Published by Ian Shires, Dimestore Productions
Managing... [click here for more] |
Dimestore Productions |
FREE
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 How to Draw Cool Characters, Action Scenes and Modern Looks
The number one fashion workshop for shojo manga now brings you...boys!
Guys take center stage in the latest edition of this best-selling workshop. With the same focus on styles and looks, you'll learn how to build a diverse cast of male characters that are distinctive and memorable--from the hair on their heads to the shoes on... [click here for more] |
F+W Media |
$24.99 $11.99
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