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With the help of reference photos and field sketches, this title lets readers learn to create realistic and colourful painting of landscapes ranging from expansive mountain vistas to intimate vignettes such as tree-shaded streams.

Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail!Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to: • tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details • effectively use metaphor and comparative language • add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasingSongwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.

Shows how easy it is to draw anything you set your mind to. This work helps artists realise that drawing is a fun activity open to everyone. It deals with various aspects ranging from choosing materials to drawing popular subjects.

The method for teaching in this book begins with 18 helpful tools which train the mind how to see. The author explains to readers how, where and why to use them. The core of the book is spent teaching how to lay out the face, placing special features, and making it look real.

Discover the simple secrets to drawing amazing hands, from popular YouTube instructor Mark Crilley. Simple step-by-step lessons are accompanied by plenty of full-colour examples.

Become a manga comic-book creator by learning about materials and tools; how to design characters; how to draw perspective; coloring techniques; how to tell a story; and more!

This book was developed to clarify and simplify various aspects of painting with watercolor, while at the same time challenging you with new possibilities. However, unlike a book of rules that tend to close our minds, this is a collection of principles, concepts and general information designed to expand the creative process.

The Practical Workshop is your guide to setting up a sensible shop with an efficient workflow and everything you need to make the best use of your time.

If you love dragons, magic is in the air! Learn to create your own dragons in a uniquely fun style. Author Piper Thibodeau walks you through drawing basics and how to design a dragon character, then gives you everything you need to know to detail and color your dragon.

Witness paintings change from bad to good as well-loved master watercolorist and teacher Charles Reid shows you how to correct problems to create fresh, spontaneous works, while offering an intimate inside glimpse into his processes.

Nobody captures seascapes quite like Claudia Nice. In this guide, she shares her approach to creating dynamic watercolor compositions textured with pen & ink, acrylics and gouache.

The ultimate book of dragons, the Dracopedia Field Guide includes drawings and details about more than 85 dragons from around the world. Learn how to tell the difference between different types of dragons, where to find them, what to look for when searching for dragon eggs and much more.

Want to draw but don't think you have the talent? This book is for you--no experience or formal training required!

Dedicated to the one you love...Just like you, Goldmine is passionate about vinyl. It rocks our world. So trust us when we say that the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is a vinyl collector's best friend.Inside these pages you'll find the latest pricing and identification information for rock, pop, alternative, jazz and country albums valued at $10 or more. And that's just for starters.Goldmine Record Album Price Guide features: • Updated prices for more than 100,000 American vinyl LPs released since 1948. • A detailed explanation of the Goldmine Grading Guide, the industry standard. • Tips to help you accurately grade and value your records--including promo pressings. • An easy-to-use, well-organized format. Whether you're new to the scene or a veteran collector, Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is here to help!

The Painted Art Journal is storytelling at its most personal; an opportunity to capture one's history--past, present and future--in a beautiful art journal worthy of passing along to future generations using materials and techniques that remain in demand such as watercolor, creating storyboards and drawing portraits.

Best-selling author, instructor and TV show host, Jerry Yarnell delivers his latest offering with all new lessons and step-by-step projects.

This book is a celebration of reclaimed wood and the beautiful range of possibilities that exists for its creative use.

Every artist strives to achieve the kind of painting that commands attention from across the room and delights the eye up close. In this book, artist and workshop teacher Patti Mollica walks you through surprisingly simple and efficient strategies for achieving that kind of powerful composition, whatever your subject.

Everything you need to start woodworking with hand tools! Hand tool woodworking can be a source of great pride, satisfaction and amazing results--not to mention less noise and sawdust.

Splatter, stamp, scrape, repeat. A quick-start guide to beautifully layered and textured abstracts!

The best fantasy manga drawing instruction...now with focus on fantasy!

Everything you need to use your handplanes!No woodworking tool is more satisfying, quick and precise to use than a handplane. Planes can process timber in its rough state, bring boards up to a glimmering smoothness, cut rabbets, dados, grooves and other joints, and trim wood with a precision that has yet to be matched by power tools.

Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!

Bestselling author Claudia Nice shows how to develop the skills of observation and then use those skills to accurately draw and sketch a variety of subjects that are both realistic and expressive.

In this book, you're the storyteller and the artist and you're on a quest to bring the soulful characters, mythical creatures and magical landscapes of your imagination to life through mixed-media art.

The manga universe is diverse--full of cute chibis, soulful romantics, cunning villains and sassy schoolgirls. Whether you want to tell love stories, create fantasy worlds or explore the drama of everyday life, you can do it with the help of self-taught manga artist and YouTube celebrity Sophie-Chan.