Book Description
The Way We Live Alfresco combines Stafford Cliff's unerring eye with the remarkable photography of Gilles de Chabaneix to present a marvelous portrayal of the delights of living alfresco. An indispensable reference for getting the best of living outdoors, this book is organized into five specific sections: Outside the Home, Transitional Spaces, Rooms Outside, Bringing the Outside In, and Living Outside.
Each fully illustrated section brings the reader to the heart of what it means to live and dine alfresco-in the open, but closely in touch with the good things of life. From buildings specifically created away from the main home, to the decorative use of natural objects such as stones and leaves inside the home, this book will provide an endless source of inspiration for those seeking to bring comfort and style to their outdoor living.
With 300 full-color photographs that take advantage of every opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons and connections,
The Way We Live Alfresco is sure to dazzle every reader with the beauties of the alfresco lifestyle.
Book Description
Because people are captivated by the "human" traits in animals, especially those that make us laugh, animals have been an endless source of humor for cartoonists. We chuckle at the antics of Marmaduke and Garfield, recognizing in them amusing behavior in our own pets. We also find humor in more human-like characters such as the irascible Donald Duck and the gloomy Eyore because their personalities remind us of people we know. With their ability to make people laugh, animals are essential in the repertoire of every cartoonist.
In this book, Christopher Hart teaches an easy method for capturing the forms and expressions of animals. The book begins by showing how to create simple drawings with just a few strokes of the pen. Following the basic shapes, Hart goes on to depict animal personalities that are based on their physical traits. He covers many different species, from exotic African beasts to common breeds of dogs and cats. A final section shows how animals can be turned into "human" characters that stand upright and wear clothes.
Customer Reviews:
Best book i have:).......2007-02-23
This book is by far the best one in my collection:) It's stuffed with inspirational pictures and it's very easy to read:) It took me only about a half hour to create my very own cartoon character after reading a bit in this book:D
The step-by-step drawing guides in here are so easy to follow, and the book also show you different degrees of hardships in creating a character. You have the easily drawn characters, the medium hard-to-draw characters, and the really hard-to-draw characters:S
I'd say i was already in the "Medium" category when i bought this book, so the easily drawn characters were just to simple for me to even bother with. But still, they make good reference::)
If i am to say something about what audience this book is aimed for, then i'd have to say it's for beginners and people like me(A bit past beginner:p). There are VERY few hard-to-draw pictures in here, so i'm gonna have to buy another book soon if i keep progressing like i do:p
Different animals you can learn to draw from this book: Cats, dogs, horses, sharks, elephants, lions, tigers, bears and a few other critters...
I love this book :) I do not regret buying it at all:) I can actually REALLY reccomend this book to people who are out for learning this subject:)
Love this book.......2006-02-19
I actually have some of my own characters now just from reading this book. Keep up the good work
Great book!.......2004-07-05
As a cartoonist and author myself ( of "Let's Toon Caricatures"), I have quite a collection of how to draw books that I've amasses over the years. This book is my all time favorite for drawing great, cartoony animals.
Wonderful!.......2004-06-27
I love the idea of putting cartoon animals into humorous situations, and this book shows exactly how to do that! Shows simple ways to draw some of the most seemingly complex cartoons! Highly recommended!
MUST HAVE!!!.......2001-10-31
Christopher Hart's how to draw books are all wonderful. I own this one and a couple others and I often go back to them when I just can't get my sketches perfect. When I first received them I couldn't tear myself away. I was drawing up a storm 24-7. I've drawn realistic pictures all my life, but until buying these books, I'd never been able to whip out anything cartoony. Unexpectedly, his instructions and tips on cartoon drawing also helped me out in my realistic drawing and creativity.
I can't say enough about this book! You won't be disappointed! It's well worth the price and more. One great thing about it is that not only does the author really know his stuff, he's managed to present it wonderfully. It's a fun & easy read!!!
Book Description
This volume focuses on animals and (animated) inanimate objects. It starts by introducing key points in drawing animals in that delightful chibi character/ultra-stylized manner. The book also contains instruction on anthropomorphism or how to make animated objects that frequently appear in manga and anime seem to move and talk like human beings.
Customer Reviews:
This is new!.......2005-11-27
This book teaches how to draw super deformed animals!I never would have thought of it!Even though SD animals are not as popular as SD people this book is still good for a manga fan.
A Super Deformed charater is a manga charater with a big head, slightly chubby body,and cute looks. SD charaters are usaully know as chibis. Useully SD charaters are human but hey this could be a new begining of chibi animals!Mabye SD animals can be just as popular too!
The reason I gave this book four stars is it just goes over millions of animals until the book ends. I would have give it five stars if it just teached more about the expresions, and the poses and how to make SD animals in motion because they practiclly rushed through those steps.
Over I do recomend this book though but you kind of have to have the basics on expressions and body movement of SD charaters down first.So before buying this book try buying "how to draw manga Super-Deformed charaters Vol. 1 people" first then buy this book.
~*~Purin~*~
Customer Reviews:
Cute Basic Cat Cartoon Book.......2007-08-04
This is a great bare-bones book on how to draw cartoon cats in all kinds of interesting poses. I love it. One caveat: the actual content is basically identical to the book, Kids Draw Cartoon Cats, Kittens, Lions and Tigers. Kids Draw Cats, Kittens, Lions and Tigers (Kids Draw) I ordered both, thinking they would be different. They are not.
Either book should give you some fun, however. I could wish that the book was longer with more pictures, but that is nitpicking.
This Book Helped Me Alot!.......2001-12-29
I am 12 years old and I love to draw.And this book helped me to do better.I always thought you could draw by just drawing right off the bat and in this book, I found that you had to start off with shapes and guide lines.Now I can draw much better now that I know the proper way to draw.I also had a problem, when drawing animals that stood on all fours.It would always be very difficult for me to draw their legs so that they looked good and this book helped me with that too.I was going to buy "How to Draw Cartoon Dogs, Puppies, and Wolves" but I found it was out of print.I saw a used one here on Amazon but it was $..., and I don't have that kind of money...
Hard To Find Good Cat Cartoon Books.......2001-09-12
Good cartoon books on drawing specifically cats are hard to find, and this is one of the best. I am currently working on a script with 4 different cat types, and this book has them all, including the tiger! Althouth basic drawing techniques could be improved (he jumps to the finished product quickly), it is still a great teaching tool and a lot of fun.
Great book for anybody who loves cartoons and/or cats.......1999-08-17
This book really improved my cartooning. I spent many hours with this book and have really improved my drawing. The "Modeling Cats After People" section gave me some great insights into expressing personality.
My kids loved it as well. They especially loved the "Cat Characters and Costumes" section. I highly recommend this book.
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Drawing Cartoon Animals (Walter Foster How to Draw Series)
Bruce Blitz
Manufacturer: Walter Foster Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Instructional & How-To
| Arts & Photography
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General
| Arts & Photography
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Cartooning
| Comics & Graphic Novels
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ASIN: 1560101024 |
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How to Draw Cartoon Crustaceans (Kid's Guide to Drawing)
Curt Visca , and
Kelley Visca
Manufacturer: PowerKids Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding
Nonfiction
| Marine Life
| Animals
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Cartooning
| Art
| Arts & Music
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Drawing
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| Ages 4-8
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ASIN: 0823961583 |
Book Description
A truly adorable book, this enchanting instructional stars all the cutest little animal characters imaginable to guide beginner cartoonists, while also serving more advanced artists as a valuable ongoing reference resource.
Clear, step-by-step lessons show how to draw basic baby-animal heads and body positions, with cuddly cubs, pups, and chicks romping through the book on lively, appealing, and colorful pages. Baby animals are an essential part of any cartoonist's repertoire, so the book hosts a huge menagerie, presenting bears, elephants, monkeys, ducks, pigs, lions, tigers, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, turtles, fish, snakes, alligators, dolphins, seals, and still more babes from the wild, depicted with all the verve and fun that readers expect from their favorite cartoon master.
Customer Reviews:
A Great Drawing Book!.......2001-02-01
I think that this book is a lot like a teacher. My friend and I have drawn characters from this book and we've had sooo much fun. I recommend this book to anybody who loves to draw cartoons and to the people that think almost everything is cute.
A Great Drawing Book!.......2001-02-01
I think that this book is a lot like a teacher. My friend and I have drawn characters from this book and we've had sooo much fun. I recommend this book to anybody who loves to draw cartoons and to the people that think almost everything is cute.
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Creating Cartoon Animals (How to Draw and Paint series #232)
Don Jardine
Manufacturer: Walter Foster Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Instructional & How-To
| Arts & Photography
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Drawing
| Instructional & How-To
| Arts & Photography
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General
| Drawing
| Arts & Photography
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General
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ASIN: 1560100737 |
Book Description
Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.
Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.
What you'll learn from this book ...
• Information on art supplies used for cartoon drawing
• Easy step-by-step methods for drawing cartoon animals
• How to use basic chapes to construct characters
• Techniques for creating expression and adding personality and movement to cartoon characters
• Basic tips on learning cartoon animation
• Ways to develop cartoon animals of your own
Book Description
Since the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional observatories just a decade ago. However, astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, and technology has now progressed so that digital cameras – the kind you use on holiday – are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets.
Tony Buick has worked for two years on the techniques involved, and has written this illustrated step-by-step manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any size) and a digital camera. The color images he has produced – there are over 300 of them in the book – are of breathtaking quality.
His book is more than a manual of techniques (including details of how to make a low-cost DIY camera mount) and examples; it also provides a concise photographic atlas of the whole of the nearside of the Moon – with every image made using a standard digital camera – and describes the various lunar features, including the sites of manned and robotic landings.
Customer Reviews:
Ticket to the Moon.......2006-11-09
I was so pleased to know that such a book as this was available to help amateur astronomers new to astrophotography. I am now enjoying the easy to read introductions to each sky target and using the simple but necessary instructions to make the photography possible. Also very pleasing is that the superb images illustrated can be very closely matched by my efforts after reading this book. How refreshing not to have to wade through off-putting text and theory in order to capture beautiful pictures immediately with readily available and inexpensive equipment. I thoroughly recommend this work to anyone eager to begin taking sky pictures, especially of the Moon.
Disappointing!!!!.......2006-10-06
The title of this book is very misleading for the reader and interested buyer. The first two-thirds of this book consists of some basic astronomy information and the history of the moon and many pages of the moon's geography. The author only focuses on photography within the last third of the book and even then he never really gets into any substance about the techniques of astrophotography. The images are really poor and I suppose works since the author only concentrates on doing astrophotography on a shoestring budget. I don't see how this publication is beneficial to any amateur astronomer or astrophotographer. It is not worth the money. There are numerous books (many I own) on astrophotography and digital astrophotography that really are jammed-packed with quality photos and techniques. Also, the few methods that the author's does touch upon in this book seem very anchient. The author donates 150 pages of this book (out of 254) alone to the moon and it is all about its history, formation and pages upon pages of moon atlas pics. I highly recommend that the buyer first read and review this book before purchasing. Very disappointing!
A practical guide to astrophotography on a shoestring.......2006-08-09
This book shows that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to be able to take pictures of astronomical objects.
The book is an encouragement to amateur astronomers or someone with only a passing interest in the night sky, to go out and take photographs of the the Moon and planets. It shows how anyone can take an astronomical photo with a family digital camera and a little ingenuity and imagination.
The book also doubles as a photographic atlas to the Moon with detailed notes on what can be seen in the photographs.
I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the night sky or photography.
Customer Reviews:
I rarely write a bad review, but ..........2005-11-06
I am sorry to have to write a bad review on this novel, though I find sometimes negative criticism is good for a writer to improve, and I hope if the author reads this review that she is not hurt by what I have to say, but perhaps learns something for her next novel.
I was *sorely* disappointed in this novel. It had the makings of a great story, but alas, it was not. First of all, plot poorly constructed. Cerberus, Hades' 3 headed hound's job is to keep the living out of the Underworld and the dead in. He is not evil himself as he is made in this book. Also chacacter names and weapons are spelt wrong!! Xena's Horse is Argo (not Argos). Her weapon is called a Chakram (not a Charka, which is are points of light in and outside of the body). Roman and Greek mythology was mixed up. In Greece, the place of the Dead is called the Underworld and the God of the Dead is called Hades. In ancient Rome, the place of the Dead was called Hades, the God of the Dead, Pluto. Since Xena is set in ancinet Greece, the *God* should have been called Hades, not the place. And if Hades' hound is running amok, surely Hades (the God) would have something to say and do about it? He does not even get a *mention* in this poorly constructed novel. Again a very big disappointment. It's a wonder it got any positive reviews at all. Did they actually *read* the book!!?? The only two good things I'll say about this book were that I felt for the child seer character and the image of flames dancing was nice, but as for the rest of it, I really wonder how in Hades they made it past an agent and a publisher! Really! It angers me that there are many, many great writers out there, struggling to get wonderful writing out and stuff like this is printed. With a little more work, effort and research, the author could have really gone places with this book, but as it stands, I'd rather go to Hades.
Pretty good.......2003-01-12
I read this book several years ago while the plot of the television series was still young, season 2 or 3. The book is consistant with that timeline, which has been screwed up, spun around, and dumped upside-down since then. Around the same time I also read the Ru Emmerson books, and I do like this book much better than those as they are not consistant to the Xena timeline/plot and cannot stand alone-you would have to read the first and then the second and so on to understand everything that's going on. This is a stand-on-its-own kind of book and has a Xena-like plot to it. One problem that seems consistant to me in the published Xena novels is lack of emotion. This book held more emotion than the Ru Emmerson books.
If you want a good, stand on its own Xena adventure, this is the book for you. If you want a Xena adventure the provokes serious emotions and feelings, as the show itself often did, you may want to consider online fan fiction.
Doesn't capture Xena Gabrielle characters.......2000-03-11
This book did a poor job of conveying the essences of Xena's and Gabrielles characters-especially compared with the Ru Emerson books. In this book Gabrielle does too much simpering and is too much a little girl-no thought is given to what makes Gabrielle and Xena a team. And the sexual tension between them is totally absent-this book seems more geared towards the young male audience than both the tv show and the Ru Emerson books-which I highly recommend-especially if you didn't like this one.
Enjoyed it though I didn't feel the entire Xena excitement........1999-11-03
This book is better than Xena.... Magic Arrow of Myx. I got the Xena feeling. I couldn't put it down. I was even doing house chores and reading it at the same time. "Prophecy of Darkness" was a very good book. Even this has a down side. I didn't quite get the ENTIRE Xena feeling and aura. But I would suggest it for all die hard and not so die hard Xenites alike.
It was ok..........1999-09-02
Better than Ru Emerson's books. This book makes you feel that Xena and Gabby are friends and that Xena is developing as a character (with emotions towards other people), not just a paper-cut-out of a warrior.
Book Description
Maki has a secret ally - a powerful spirit who's not always around to save her from enduring some outrageous sex and domination scenes. A sex-and-violence tour de force!
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Princess of Darkness
Arabella Seymour
Manufacturer: Orion Publishing Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Fantasy
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
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ASIN: 1855920077 |
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Paperbacks
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Diana The Queen of Hearts; & CIA/MI6 the Princedom of Darkness. STORY: Sequel to volume Five (V)
Bruce Campbell Adamson , and
Bruce C. Adamson
Manufacturer: Bruce Campbell Adamson Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
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| Royalty
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Princess Diana
| Royalty
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| Europe
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| England
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Biographies & Memoirs
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ASIN: 1892501120 |
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Princess of darkness
Nicky Moey
Manufacturer: Times Books International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006F0VVC |
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- Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
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- 100 More of the World's Best Houses (100 World's Best Houses, Vol. 3) (Architecture)
- 117 House Designs of the Twenties (Dover Books on Architecture)
- 25 Houses Under 2,500 Square Feet
- A Field Guide to American Houses
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