Bøger af Joseph Sheppard

Life of an Empath: Unicorn Diaries journey's through the discovery of self love of Buttercup the unicorn. Loosely based off events in the author's life, it portrays a roller coaster of emotions dealing with love life and self care. Buttercup learns to find their voice through trials and tribulations; sometimes we may not accept or understand who we are, but we can grow from the experiences. Dive in to discover ways we can blossom into the magical creatures that we can be. Love, light, and Spirit guide Buttercup to the path of the enlightened self love.

Originally written for the Shep's Place column on the Lawrence Academy website, these 41 short pieces highlight many aspects of life at LA: the people, the events, the places, the legends, and more. Some are serious; some are funny (or meant to be!); a few are poignant. Older readers will rekindle fond memories, while the younger generations will enjoy glimpses into "the way we were" on the elm tree-shaded hillside in years past.

Life of an Empath: Grief Through Deaths' Eyes is a series of interviews by Buttercup the unicorn with Death and many deities that represent death. Throughout the interviews, we see Death and these different entities open up about their view of grief along with their own personal grieving. Whether it be a loss of a loved one, one's lifestyle, a part of one's soul, relationship, or seeing the beautiful side of grief, we all have different coping mechanisms. Grief is for the living and no one should be told how to grieve, but perhaps these insights may be able to help someone dealing with or understanding their grief. Death isn't the scary monster we think she might be, let's hear her side of the story.

"Joseph Sheppard has been favorably compared to practically every Renaissance master...he is without peer among modern realists for his ability to impart a warm verisimilitude to the figure."--Artspeak magazine.In this highly praised guidebook, Joseph Sheppard, a versatile and influential artist and teacher who is widely recognized as a master of figure drawing, introduces an innovative approach to drawing the human form. Beginning by reviewing the basics of anatomy, he makes his principal focus the specifics of surface anatomy.Rather than depicting in detail the muscles and bone that lie beneath the skin, as do most books on artistic anatomy, this book concentrates on how the position and movement of muscles and bones affect the surface forms of live models. The effects are masterfully demonstrated in over 170 of Joseph Sheppard's own drawings of many different live models in front, back, and side views, and in various standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, reclining, and twisting poses.Each drawing is accompanied by two diagrams, one for bones, one for muscles, which specifically show how surface forms are created by the definitive shapes beneath the skin. The superb quality of Joseph Sheppard's drawings, the wide range of poses he illustrates, and the effectiveness of his approach in this book--now in its first paperback edition--will help artists at all levels improve and refine their skills in drawing the living figure.Dover (1991) unabridged republication of the edition published by Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1984.

In this superb guidebook, a skilled practitioner of figure drawing demonstrates how to achieve mastery of anatomy through careful, knowledgeable articulation of the muscles and bones lying beneath the skin. Joseph Sheppard's concise instructions have been carefully integrated with over 250 halftone illustrations and over 180 line drawings to lead artists one step at a time through the techniques required in rendering human anatomy convincingly.The opening chapter of the book presents the special techniques involved in mastering human proportion.The chapters that follow each deal with a separate part of the body: the arm, hand, leg, foot, torso, head, and neck (with special coverage of facial features and expressions) and the complete figure.Each of these chapters follows a basic format that combines drawings of the featured body portion from many different angles, coverage of the specific bones and muscles involved, a table of muscle origins and insertions, and coverage of surface anatomy and depictions of the body part in a variety of positions. >