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Helps beginning watercolourists learn the materials and techniques needed to start painting. This work also helps readers learn the benefits of working with quality materials, see the wonder of watercolour in action and be challenged to express themselves through paint.

Building on the success of the previous book, "The 3AM Ephiphany", this book goes beyond the basic fiction writing elements such as dialogue and character to provide unusual exercises that allow writers to practice their craft in creative ways. It helps writers learn the elements of fiction while experiencing them.

Helps readers understand the importance of color schemes and color contrasts, and how learning to use them effectively can be advantageous when painting. It teaches how to create a color scheme or palette for painting, and how to use similar colors, contrasting colors, neutrals, and complements.

Offers instructions on supplies and references; shapes and values; a variety of people, animal and nature subjects; and, refining your drawings.

Offers information on details such as eyes, mouths, ears, fur, feathers and basic anatomy.

15 colourful step-by-step demonstrations of coastal subjects.

Sketching and drawing from life is fundamental to artists, who have always used it to record observations, experiences and ideas. Artists also want to use their sketchbooks to capture the character of everyday life in their drawings. This work helps readers learn how to develop the skills necessary in order to add life to their drawings.

This book shows readers how to create anthropomorphic characters (animals with humanlike characteristics) that effectively convey various personalities, combining elements of people with those of furry (or feathered or scaled) animals, reptiles and mythical creatures.

Massad Ayoob delivers the information the reader needs to be a responsible gun owner/concealed carry permit holder. This volume covers issues surrounding concealed carry today, including case studies and lessons learned through expert commentary from Ayoob, who draws on experience as expert witness for courts in weapons and shooting cases.

Reveals the keys to achieving your dream. This work includes the start to finish fundamentals you need to produce and launch a first novel. It offers readers advice on both writing and publishing their first novel, from the perspective of a published author and seasoned agent. It is useful for aspiring and struggling writers everywhere.

Featuring advice from some of the best names in the field, this guide covers horror traditions, the art and craft of writing horror, and where the genre is going next.

Explores the 100 key characters behind modern fantasy art with mythological background and practical instructions.

Unique, beautifully illustrated guide to the anatomy, habits and history of 13 different types of lifelike dragons that includes sketches, drawings and step-by-step colour painting demonstrations.

Provides the woodworker with the information they need to use their router table. This book covers the basic router-table knowledge in the first chapter: safety issues, setup fundamentals, feed direction and workpiece control.

Teaches writers how to open up memory, access emotion and discover compelling material; shape scenes from experience, as life events become plot lines; and populate stories with the fascinating, silly, and maddening "characters" that surround them.

Provides the reader with the information they need to know to paint with pastels, from materials to techniques to painting from photographs. This title demonstrates the varied techniques of the medium, including different types of strokes, blending, layering, underpainting and mixing media.

These reliable and proven drawing techniques will add a natural feel to your art, resulting in figures that look as if they could walk, run or dance right off the page.

Discover the practical impact of environmental shooting regulations in the field and on the shooting range.

Make Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd!Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, Writing the Breakout Novel, offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded marketplace.Now, building on the success of its predecessor, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook calls that advice into action! This powerful book presents the patented techniques and writing exercises from Maass's popular writing workshops to offer novelists first-class instruction and practical guidance. You'll learn to develop and strengthen aspects of your prose with sections on: • Building plot layers • Creating inner conflict • Strengthening voice and point of view • Discovering and heightening larger-than-life character qualities • Strengthening theme • And much more! Maass also carefully dissects examples from real-life breakout novels so you'll lean how to read and analyze fiction like a writer. With authoritative instruction and hands-on workbook exercises, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook is one of the most accessible novel-writing guides available.Set your work-in progress apart from the competition and write your own breakout novel today!

Not everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. Police Procedure & Investigation helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of law enforcement.With a career in law enforcement that spanned nearly two decades, author Lee Lofland is a nationally acclaimed expert on police procedures and crime scene investigations who consults regularly with best-selling authors and television producers. Now you can benefit from his years of experience with Police Procedure & Investigation.This comprehensive resource includes:More than 80 photographs, illustrations, and charts showing everything from defensive moves used by officers to prison cells and autopsiesDetailed information on officer training, tools of the trade, drug busts, con air procedures, crime scene investigation techniques, and moreFirst-person details from the author about his experiences as a detective, including accounts of arrests, death penalty executions, and criminal encountersPolice Procedure & Investigation is the next best thing to having a police detective personally assigned to your book!

You can draw anything - flowers, people animals, even water and glass with this expansive, in-depth drawing bible, by veteran artist and instructor Lee Hammond. Learn to draw realistically the easy way using reference photos with Lee's simple techniques and clear step-by-step instruction.