English | February 5, 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07NDWY6FL | 146 pages | AZW3 | 45 Mb
With over 8 million views, Steven Cronin's Watercolour Workshop YouTube channel has helped budding artists around the world learn the basics of watercolour painting in a loose and free style whilst avoiding fuss and excess detail. His work ethic of practise, practise, practise has challenged his viewers to break barriers and find success in a medium thought of as difficult and arduous. 'Watercolour Painting Made Simple' highlights his channel's premise that watercolour doesn't have to be complicated and is available to anyone with the desire and passion to learn. The exercises in this book are broken down into a series of step by step guides to help build your confidence and gain success. So grab your brushes and give it a go. It's not as difficult as you think. Happy painting!
English | ISBN: 0231158386 | 2011 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1,4 MB
Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth. Liedtka and Ogilvie cover the mind-set, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, unpack the mysterious connection between design and growth, and teach managers in a straightforward way how to exploit design's exciting potential.
Allan Wood | 2008 | ISBN: 1428359850 | 660 pages | PDF | 100 MB
Being a successful graphic designer today requires more than knowing the essential features of industry-standard software applications. It also requires an understanding of how to integrate these programs into a seamless whole while producing work that conforms to design principles and client expectations. This fully revised edition of The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit, 3rd Edition provides a full-color, comprehensive overview of Macintosh OS X and Windows Vista operating systems, design fundamentals, and the "Big 3" digital design programs used in the graphics industry today: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, and Adobe InDesign CS3. The book examines the essential features of each, then reveals in practical detail the skills and technology necessary for effective design for print and Web Media. This project-based book features a highly visual introduction to the essential tools and functions of each application from the perspective of the working designer. Readers are then given the opportunity to put what they learn to work by tackling design projects from concept to completion with assignments drawn from the everyday world of professional graphic designers.
English | April 24th, 2018 | ISBN: 1440353166 | 130 pages | EPUB | 38.84 MB
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Drawing Figures!
To draw an anatomical figure, you don't need a stack of weighty anatomy books. Just take it step by step!
English | December 10th, 2009 | ISBN: 1600581374 | 35 pages | True PDF | 25.73 MB
In this comprehensive, 32-page book, accomplished artist Debra Kauffman Yaun shares her artistic insights and techniques for creating strikingly realistic animal drawings in colored pencil. The book opens with essential information on choosing tools and materials, understanding color theory, and creating basic pencil strokes. It then covers special colored pencil techniques, such as hatching, burnishing, layering, and blending.
English | August 8, 2001 | ISBN: 0471399191 | 128 pages | PDF | 6.37 Mb
The complete, classic guide to the art of pencil sketching
Portable. Erasable. Inexpensive. No other single drawing tool is as versatile as the pencil. Through the centuries, generations of artists have used it to work out ideas, study form, and develop fundamental skills that are crucial to an artist’s training.
English | April 27, 2015 | ISBN: 1118798902 | 1152 pages | AZW3 | 14 Mb
Take control of AutoCAD for a more efficient, streamlined workflow
AutoCAD Platform Customization is the most comprehensive guide to streamlining and personalizing the AutoCAD platform. The AutoLISP and VBA programming languages open up a myriad of customization options, and this book provides expert guidance toward applying them to AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Plant 3D, and other programs based on the Autodesk AutoCAD platform. Detailed discussions backed by real-world examples and step-by-step tutorials provide user-friendly instruction, and downloadable datasets allow for hands-on learning. Through customization you can increase screen real estate, streamline workflows, and create more accurate drawings by unleashing powerful programming languages that allow the user to command the software how to work, instead of the other way around.
Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features by Stephen Laske
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1681984407 | 411 Pages | PDF conv | 42 MB
English | February 22, 2006 | ISBN: 082475364X | 296 pages | PDF | 9.94 Mb
Printing traces its roots back for centuries, and the invention of moveable type changed the world. However, until the advent of the computer, printing remained a costly and time-consuming operation. From the first humble dot matrix to modern inkjet, laser, and dye sublimation printers, desktop printing has brought low-cost, high quality printing out of the large presses and into the home and office. Color Desktop Printer Technology provides an overview of the current state of the technology, examining both current and emerging applications.
English | 2006 | 144 Page | ASIN: B007QPFERQ | PDF | 25 MB
Ateliers have produced the greatest artists of all time—and now that educational model is experiencing a renaissance. These studios, a return to classical art training, are based on the nineteenth-century model of teaching artists by pairing them with a master artist over a period of years. Students begin by copying masterworks, then gradually progress to painting as their skills develop. Classical Drawing Atelier is an atelier in a book—and the master is Juliette Aristides, a classically trained artist. On every page, Aristides uses the works of works of Old Masters and today’ s most respected realist artists to demonstrate and teach the principles of realist drawing and painting, taking students step by step through the learning curve yet allowing them to work at their own pace. Unique and inspiring, Classical Drawing Atelier is a serious art course for serious art students.
English | February 28, 2016 | ISBN: 0321934075 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 27 Mb
No matter what your actual job title, you are—or soon will be—a data worker.
Every day, at work, home, and school, we are bombarded with vast amounts of free data collected and shared by everyone and everything from our co-workers to our calorie counters. In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Functional Art—Alberto Cairo’s foundational guide to understanding information graphics and visualization—the respected data visualization professor explains in clear terms how to work with data, discover the stories hidden within, and share those stories with the world in the form of charts, maps, and infographics. In The Truthful Art, Cairo transforms elementary principles of data and scientific reasoning into tools that you can use in daily life to interpret data sets and extract stories from them.
English | September 5, 2015 | ISBN: 0134308131 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 28 Mb
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop choose Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) from Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show users step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop and how to manipulate images, edit motion-based content, and create image composites.
English | January 16, 1997 | ISBN: 0064550168 | 161 pages | PDF | 25 MB
This unique learning tool teaches anatomical concepts and illustrates all the structures and systems of the body through coloring exercises, an effective teaching device that also aids in the retention of the material. 163 detailed illustrations are organized according to body system and a color-key system links terminology to illustrations, reinforcing learning and impressing upon students the visual details of anatomy.
by Russell Chun
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0135298881 | 580 Pages | PDF (conv/HQ) | 108 MB
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Animate choose Adobe Animate CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from Adobe Press. The 11 project-based step-by-step lessons in this book show users the key techniques for working in Animate. Adobe Animate CC provides more expressive tools, powerful controls for animation, and robust support for playback across a wide variety of platforms. Create interactive virtual reality immersive environments with new VR 360 and VR Panorama documents. Gain advanced control over character animations with layer parenting and AI-driven lip syncing. Learn to focus the action on different parts of the Stage with the Camera tool and create a realistic sense of space with the Layer Depth panel. Support for SVG, WebGL, HTML5, animated GIFs, and HD video, and seamless collaboration with other designers and with other Adobe applications through Creative Cloud libraries make Adobe Animate the ideal development environment for creative animation and multimedia.
English | August 3, 2016 | ISBN: 1138925403 | EPUB | 270 pages | 41.2 MB
Using real working drawings from a 50 year career, Ron Slade shows how drawing remains at the heart of the design process in the everyday working life of engineers and architects.
English | Feb. 1, 1990 | ISBN: 0395530075, 0395080487 | 240 Pages | PDF | 44.86 MB
English | May 30, 2002 | ISBN: 0632039256, 1405135050 | 454 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The Architects' Handbook provides a comprehensive range of visual and technical information covering the great majority of building types likely to be encountered by architects, designers, building surveyors and others involved in the construction industry. It is organised by building type and concentrates very much on practical examples.
English | September 23, 2004 | ISBN: 1585422193 | 224 pages | PDF | 44 MB
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This much-awaited new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.
English | 25 Jan. 2019 | ASIN: B07N4FZG2X | 168 Pages | PDF | 7.66 MB
This is the second of my books on abstract art.
It talks about the ideas you need for abstract painting.
I describe what they are, where they come from, what to do with them, and how you transfer them to the canvas, which simply put, is a process no different to all the other processes out there.
English | January 24, 2019 | ASIN: B07N4DSM8F | 1089 pages | AZW3 | 27 MB
English | 2013 | ISBN: 160706636X | 80 Pages | PDF | 164.6 MB
The second art collection book by the internationally renowned and Emmy Award-winning master artist, Frank Cho, Women Book 2 highlights Cho's latest covers, pin-ups, illustrations, paintings, and sketches, including art from his recent Liberty Meadows project. This artbook contains images of women in various states of undress.
English | January 10, 2008 | ISBN: 0470129867 | 384 pages | PDF | 60 MB
Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For Dummies makes it easy to get started.
English | December 26th, 2017 | ISBN: 1631593730 | 221 pages | EPUB | 18.81 MB
The Pocket Universal Principles of Art is a portable but still comprehensive reference for all artists, and a companion volume to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design.
English | January 23, 2019 | ASIN: B07N33B5FK | 463 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most widely used software packages in the world. It’s hard to imagine the world without Photoshop, and its remarkable image editing tools have been used in everything from Hollywood blockbusters to Internet memes. As powerful as Photoshop is, it can be a little intimidating. Adobe has done a great job of making the software more accessible to newcomers, but it’s still a complex program. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a professional graphic designer or digital marketing expert to learn how to use Photoshop and Photoshop is single most important tool for graphic designers and we bring together a course crafted for easy understanding and quick assimilation. This book starts with basic design introduction and follow it up with tools like Selection tools, manipulation tools , creation tools and workspace tools. You will also learn professional design principles and tips and tricks to get you started on photoshop. This book focus on the most important photoshop techniques and follows an unique task based pedagogy which is great for beginners and intermediate learners alike.