FORCE: Drawing Human Anatomy (Force Drawing Series) by Mike Mattesi

2016 | ISBN: 0415733979, 1138731234 | English | 331 pages | True PDF | 16 MB

For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of representation have much to tell us. Parallel projection can be found on classical Greek vases, in Pompeiian frescoes, in Byzantine mosaics; it returned in works of the historical avant-garde, and remains the dominant form of representation in China. In Oblique Drawing, Massimo Scolari investigates "anti-perspective" visual representation over two thousand years, finding in the course of his investigation that visual and conceptual representations are manifestations of the ideological and philosophical orientations of different cultures. Images prove to be not just a form of art but a form of thought, a projection of a way of life. Scolari's generously illustrated studies show that illusionistic perspective is not the only, or even the best, representation of objects in history; parallel projection, for example, preserves in scale the actual measurements of objects it represents, avoiding the distortions of one-point perspective. Scolari analyzes the use of nonperspectival representations in pre-Renaissance images of machines and military hardware, architectural models and drawings, and illustrations of geometrical solids. He challenges Panofsky's theory of Pompeiian perspective and explains the difficulties encountered by the Chinese when they viewed Jesuit missionaries' perspectival religious images. Scolari vividly demonstrates the diversity of representational forms devised through the centuries, and shows how each one reveals something that is lacking in the others.

Lessons in Classical Painting: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier by Juliette Aristides
2016 | ISBN: 1607747898 | English | 248 pages | PDF | 57 MB

 
A companion volume to Lessons in Classical Drawing and an atelier in book form, Lessons in Classical Painting breaks down the foundational skills and techniques of painting in a format that is accessible and manageable for all readers.

2014 | English | 306 Page | ISBN-10: 160465936X | PDF | 155 MB

The art of portraiture approached its apex during the sixteenth century in Europe with the discovery of oil painting when the old masters developed and refined techniques that remain unsurpassed to this day. The ascendance of nonrepresentational art in the middle of the twentieth century displaced these venerable skills, especially in academic art circles. Fortunately for aspiring artists today who wish to learn the methods that allowed the Old Masters to achieve the luminous color and subtle tonalities so characteristic of their work, this knowledge has been preserved in hundreds of small traditional painting ateliers that persevered in the old ways in this country and throughout the world.

How to Draw Anything

English | 2010 | ISBN: 0716022230 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 9.88 MB

Adobe In Design CC Design Ebooks, Banners, Posters by John Richards
English | November 14, 2018 | ASIN: B07KK36F4T | 528 pages | AZW3 | 23 MB

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design Basics by John Richards
English | November 11, 2018 | ASIN: B07KFRQCT3 | 380 pages | AZW3 | 3.51 MB

Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova, "Photoshop Elements 2019 For Dummies"
ISBN: 1119520150 | 2018 | EPUB | 448 pages | 59 MB