Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be

Contains hands-on activities to teach basic elements including shading techniques and creating perspective.

Art for Kids: Drawing

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Gene Franks

Like pulling it off the shelf new! Please refer to provided pictures and Thank you for helping us keep books out of landfills. 

Nebraska

Walter Foster Publishing

Written by artists of national profile, this book provides an insiders guide to good tools, and tricks along with best practice techniques. Step by step "proofs".

Pencil Drawing

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Ralph Masiello

Virginia

Dinosaurs roamed the earth 65 million years ago. Now you can bring them back to life in your drawings. Illustrator Ralph Masiello shows you how to draw all things dinosaur, from hatching dinosaur eggs to the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. Just follow the steps shown in red to create your own Jurassic world. With a few simple lines, you can draw a stegosaurus from head to spiky tail. Then you can add ferns and other prehistoric plants for it to eat. Bonus challenge steps show you how to make your drawings even more realistic.

Ralph Masiello's Dinosaur Drawing Book

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Jeremy Galton

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

This hardcover guidebook with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for budding artists to keep handy and reference often. The stylish design of this collection of ticks or tricks, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and provides useful tips for more advanced readers.
Everyone can draw, but few can do it well. This step-by-step book takes the reader through each key stage, beginning with advice on choosing the right equipment, how to hold a pencil, and drawing basic shapes. This is the perfect book for the reader who is new to the art and looking for the perfect professional guide, painting them in the right direction. Drawing Tips and Tricks takes readers through techniques step by step, guarantees they've got a clear grasp of the basics while knowing exactly when to go it alone and experiment.
Drawiing Tips and Tricks covers the terrific effects which can be achieved using colored pencils by explaining techniques such as crosshatching, shading and stippling and guides readers through portraying still life, rendering outdoor scenes, drawing interiors, and drawing people and animals.

Drawing Tips and Tricks

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Shows wear. Ex library book. There will be no clear film on book. Library stamp and small sticker are on inside of covers. Book will be in good to great condition unless otherwise stated.

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North Carolina

Learn to Draw More Than 35 Fantastic Animals Step by Step - Includes Fascinating Fun Facts and Fantastic Photos!

Learn how to draw a collection of beloved horses and pets!

Ideal for children who love to doodle, this introductory drawing guide makes the art of drawing easy. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions use basic shapes and colors to teach children how to draw step by step. In this book, young readers will learn simple ways to draw and color their favorite horse breeds and other beloved pets. Each project features fun, fascinating facts, as well as simple drawing tips to help kids build confidence. With All About Drawing: Horses and Pets, aspiring artists will be drawing their own masterpieces in no time!

All about Drawing Horses and Pets

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Alabama

"Includes drawing masterclass DVD"--Cover.

The Fundamentals of Drawing

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Author/illustrator Ralph Masiello explores the world of dragon lore, from the mystical Australian rainbow serpent to the revered imperial dragon of China. Just follow the steps in red to create your own mythical, magical beasts. Extra bonus steps in blue show how to add realistic scales and more advanced details.

Ralph Masiello's Dragon Drawing Book

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Patricia Getha

Cindy Smith

Nolon Stacey

Linda Weil

Debra Kauffman

New York

Discover All the Techniques You Need to Know to Draw Amazingly Lifelike Animals

Featuring an array of adorable pets and majestic wildlife, this exceptional 144-page book offers simple, step-by-step instructions for creating dozens of incredibly lifelike animal drawings.



Inside, five talented artists reveal their professional secrets for drawing all the features that are unique to our furry and feathered friends--from wet noses and expressive eyes to thick fur and delicate whiskers. The book opens with essential information about drawing tools and materials, followed by instruction on how to approach and render a subject--such as transferring a photo reference, building up forms with basic shapes, creating perspective, and pencil techniques such as shading and blending.



Then the authors demonstrate their unique approaches to drawing through an array of inspiring projects, guiding you from initial sketches through the detailed shading process to the finishing touches. As you progress from project to project, you will find a range of helpful topics, such as portraying accurate proportions, creating dynamic compositions, and using colored pencils. Each section features a different artist, with the themes:
 * Baby animals in graphite pencil, including a bunny, foal, bear cub, and lamb
 * Dogs and cats in graphite pencil, including a husky, Dalmation, Maine Coon cat, and Ocicat
 * Horses and ponies in graphite pencil, including a an Arabian, Appaloosa, and Dappled pony
 * Wild animals in graphite pencil, including an elephant, owl, tiger cub, and koala
 * Animals in colored pencil, including a rooster, leopard, box turtle, and cow

Packed with convincing illustrations and expert instruction, The Art of Drawing Animals is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for all artists smitten with the animal kingdom.

The Art of Drawing Animals

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Polly Raynes

Capture the beauty and complexity of the botanical world in a wide range of media. With the help of detailed step-by-step exercises, Polly Raynes explains all the drawing and painting techniques you will need to create stunning images from simple line studies to fully-realized paintings. Part One explains the pros and cons of each medium in turn, looks at tools and equipment, paper and supports, and mixing media. Part Two puts into practice the techniques developed in Part One. Follow the step-by-step projects to draw and paint a wide range of scenes, from formal and wild gardens, interior and exterior plant and flower arrangements to plants and flowers in architectural settings. Finally, present your finished work to its best advantage by following the hints and tips on mounting and framing. -- From publisher's description.

Drawing and Painting Plants and Flowers

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Draw with Confidence and Creativity! Creativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it, and make something new. Best-selling author Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing, is back with fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile. The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to: Take your doodling from mindless to masterful Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings Play with patterns to create captivating compositions Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures Develop a theme in your work Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 60 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he even includes the work of well-known artists. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create.

Keys to Drawing with Imagination

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Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Basics of Drawing

The author of this book believes that art should not just be a technical rendering of what one sees, but rather the focus should be on the thought process behind using drawing as langugae to express movement, appearance and life. His premise is that errors in drawing are unsuccessful attempts to fit life experience into preconceived standardized forms that resemble reality as little as a stick figure resembles the human form. Sections cover basic drawing, drawing the figure, light, various drawing techniques and colour. Topics include the nature of shadow, ways to focus the eyes, the world as optical illusion and forms in action and at rest

Drawing with an Open Mind

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Washington

A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing People

An easy guide to drawing people for budding artists ages 9 to 12

Grab a pencil and an eraser―it's time to explore the world around you and illustrate the people in it! Featuring a step-by-step format for beginners, Figure Drawing for Kids is a great way to start sketching friends and family, pop culture icons, and epic superheroes―one simple exercise at a time.

 * Project-based activities―Learn how to draw people with 13 different projects that will advance your skills from basic shapes and shading to full, detailed illustrations.
 * Guided practice―Explore essential drawing concepts like proportion, negative space, point of view, composition, and crosshatch, and practice with a range of human sizes, shapes, skin tones, and abilities.
 * Bonus drawing tips―Learn to draw from life or a photograph, how to set up a model station, and how to complete your drawings with additional objects and landscape elements.

Dive in and let the doodling fun begin with this beginner's guide to drawing for kids.

Figure Drawing for Kids

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Joy Thomas

Michigan

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.—Edgar Degas Learn how to turn what you see into masterful, expressive art. With the practical instruction and advice in these pages, you can develop the skills necessary to draw fine portraits in the realist tradition. In The Art of Portrait Drawing, skilled artist Joy Thomas passes on to you the lessons she has gathered from generations of the world's greatest artists. Learn about the golden mean, the traditional three-color portrait, the secrets of proportion and more methods used by the Old Masters and today's best artists alike! Inside you'll find: An introduction to every commonly used drawing medium, including charcoal, Conté and graphite An illustrated overview of the history of portrait drawing Time-honored methods for drawing accurately Insights on how to capture not only the likeness, but also the mood and essence of your subject Advice on posing a subject, setting up lighting, choosing the right tools and composing effectively 9 in-depth, step-by-step drawing demonstrations to develop your skills and your confidence Portraying the human face is the ultimate expression of art. Use The Art of Portrait Drawing as the road map for your artistic quest.

The Art of Portrait Drawing

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A Comprehensive Learning Guide and Reference Manual

Written for beginning and advanced artists, this manual is packed with projects that teach basic drawing techniques and show artists how to develop their own individual styles. Traditional and experimental techniques are demonstrated, and analyses of classic works by historical and contemporary artists are also included.

The Complete Drawing Course

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Creative fashion drawing

Mark Crilley

West Virginia

A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw

With over 10 million views and growing, Mark Crilley's YouTube drawing instruction videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans and have been featured on sites such as Yahoo News and Reddit. In addition, Crilley is an accomplished graphic novelist. Now for the first time, he pairs both strengths resulting in a one-of-a-kind art instruction experience. Through the story of aspiring, overeager young artist-in-the-making David and his helpful, but often flustered mentor, Becky, readers gain a grounding in the basics of drawing and rendering, along with a helping of laughs and poignant entertainment. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars at the end of each chapter that direct readers to tackle some of the very same drawing exercises that David has just completed. The sequential art format provides the perfect vehicle for these step-by-step lessons, and the Pixar-esque approach to the surrounding characters and story ensures an enjoyable experience that readers will want to revisit again and again.

The Drawing Lesson

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California

Broken down into easy step-by-step diagrams, this book shows children how, with a few simple lines, they can transform their own thumbprint into a shaggy dog, a scaly fish, a funny frog, a scary spider, an angry face, a surfer, or even a halloween witch.

Great Thumbprint Drawing Book

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Florida

Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals

Four professional cartoonists provide easy-to-follow instructions showing how to pick out the comic details that make a cartoon character come alive and add expression and movement to the simplest sketch.

Beginner's Guide to Drawing Cartoons

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Aaron Sautter

The cover has creases and scratches. The spine is in good condition. All pages are intact. No stains, writing, tears. This is a great drawing guide(not just for boys)

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Aliens, Warriors, Robots, and Other Cool Stuff

"Lively text and fun illustrations describe how to draw aliens, warriors, robots, and other cool stuff"--Provided by publisher.

Boys' Guide to Drawing

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The edges of the cover are slightly curled. Pages 5,6,7,8 are dog-eared at the bottom. The binding is strong. All pages are intact. 

Drawing Dragons

A Complete Guide to Design and Illustration Styles

Creative Fashion Drawing

Tim Pond

Georgia

Drawing the Natural World is a practical and comprehensive guide for artists of all abilities to celebrate through art the beauty of the flora and fauna that make up our planet. The book is divided into the fundamental concepts of art - colour and tone, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space - to introduce the essential techniques and demonstrate how they can be used in drawing the natural world through practical projects. Further chapters cover the anatomy of animals to ensure posture and gait can be accurately captured, and the fundamentals of composition. There is also introduction to the different materials and equipment that can be used, and a guide to basics of drawing. Each of the projects in the book includes a fully illustrated step-by-step sequence to follow, plus helpful tips and advice. There's also background information about the featured animals and plants to broaden the reader's awareness of and connection with the natural world. This comprehensive guide is for all abilities, whether they haven't drawn for years or decades or are an experienced artist looking for fresh inspiration.

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Art for Kids: Drawing

Gene Franks

Pencil Drawing

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Ralph Masiello's Dinosaur Drawing Book

Jeremy Galton

Drawing Tips and Tricks

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All about Drawing Horses and Pets

Barrington Barber

The Fundamentals of Drawing

Ralph Masiello

Ralph Masiello's Dragon Drawing Book

Patricia Getha; Cindy Smith; Nolon Stacey; Linda Weil; Debra Kauffman

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Polly Raynes

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Keys to Drawing with Imagination

Barrington Barber

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Drawing with an Open Mind

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Figure Drawing for Kids

Joy Thomas

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Ian Simpson

The Complete Drawing Course

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Creative fashion drawing

Mark Crilley

The Drawing Lesson

Ed Emberley (Illustrator)

Great Thumbprint Drawing Book

Edward Emberley

Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals

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Beginner's Guide to Drawing Cartoons

Aaron Sautter

Boys' Guide to Drawing

Jim Hansen

Drawing Dragons

Noel Chapman, Judith Cheek

Creative Fashion Drawing

Tim Pond

Drawing the Natural World