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This book essentially translates business principles into a language that can be conprehended by readers who have limited knowledge of business principles. In contrast to the manual, "how-to" style of trade publications and articles, the text within "Business Principles of Landscape Contracting" emphasizes business principles and their applications to the landscape industry. Since the lanscape industry is service oriented, the human element could not be ignored. It is people, not machines, that produce the end product for all landscape companies. Therefore, chapters are devoted to personnel management, professional development, employee productivity and leadership.
Introduces business principles associated with the landscape contracting industry./Provides business management concepts in a pedagogical format for readers who have limited knowledge of business principles.
A perfect tool for a person looking to get into entry-level management or entreprenueral ventures.
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This book will have beginning artists of all ages drawing faces that are strikingly realistic and detailed. Artist Carrie Stuart Parks honed her fast and effective drawing skills as a professional forensic artist. Here she makes drawing fun and easy, showing beginners how to render vivid self portraits and portraits of others, all in a matter of hours.
Artists will successfully learn how to master proportions and map facial features accurately. They will then study shapes within a composition and learn to draw them realistically. Lastly, artists will study the subject's values and use them to bring life and accuracy to each portrait. A final "checking" step helps artists capture heightened realism and accuracy.
This book features clear step-by-step instructions, before-and-after examples from students, and proven drawing exercises used to train artists throughout the country.
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Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces.......2007-04-11
This book was recommended to me by someone who is an artists for crime victims. It was used in the classes she went to. I am practicing drawing eyes at the moment. I have to say that I am now drawing the best eyes ever. This book explains more that where to put the features. It explains how to make the features come to life.
Drawing Techniques Analyzed and Simplified .......2007-03-23
Again, I checked this one out from the library before purchasing. I did not want another book that just told me to sit down and 'draw what you see'. When it comes to faces, the proportions are the hardest part for me. This book goes into great detail explaining how to 'measure' the features of a real person, not the imaginary kind we see in fashion layouts. I have actually seen great improvement after only a few drawings. The best way to improve is to do separate studies of each facial feature until we get them right, and this book explains how. Practice is what brings the progress. Finding time is the problem. This book makes it very clear that anyone with good eyesight can learn to draw peoples' faces. It's just like learning any other skill. This woman teaches this course to police artists, ordinary people with no previous artistic training. It works!
This book really helped!.......2007-02-08
I love this book, I got it from the library, but I had to have my own copy. I was able to actually capture a likeness for the first time! Her technique of measuring can be applied to more than just faces. I bought her second book, but this one is better.
Drawing Realistic Faces.......2007-02-07
I am very happy with this book, gives you a step by step insight on portraits. This book was also shipped to me within two days, fast and efficient!!
Great Book for Learning to Draw Realistic Faces.......2007-01-10
I love to draw, and most know the Hardest thing to draw is the face. Drawing a Face Realisticly can make or break a Masterpiece, before i was ok my sketchs were nice. I got this book and Practiced, every step, very easy to follow, and understand. Within weeks, i was creating some Portrait Quality Sketches, Now all my friends and Family are asking me to Draw them. I would Recomend this Book to anyone that loves to draw, especially Realistic Drawing.
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Building Facades: Faces, Figures, and Ornamental Details
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Unique in the literature and sure to become a standard reference, here is the first guide to the identification and restoration of building facades. Featuring 2,000 b/w halftones illustrations, it chronicles in photo-essay style the diversity of facades from around the world. Images are shown within their historical and social context, and are easily accessed through cross-references to chronology, geography, location, building type, type of detail, and materials used. Select case studies (Ellis Island Museum and others) emphasize the practical aspects of preservation.
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The artist covers all the important techniques including anatomy, proportions of the face, creating realistic features, using tone, formal and informal portraits, and more. Step-by-step demonstrations accompany simple exercise and a gallery of original pictures.
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Drawing Portraits.......2005-08-12
This is the second book of Mr. Civardi's that I have purchased. I am impressed with the way he imparts his knowledge and expertise to the pages of this book. I highly recomend this book for anyone interested in learning to draw portraits. The detailed steps from start to finish are easy to understand and follow.
Contains mostly drawings, little description.......2005-07-12
This book had a lot of examples of Civardi's work but not a lot of tips or instructions about drawing it. In the beginning, there is a full page of suggestions but that's about all there is to it. Lots of pictures of body parts, no step-by-step, no breakdown of lines or sections. Basically, the book shows you the finished products, not really the process of drawing. As another reviewer said, if you would like a book with a lot of examples of his work, this is it.
I would suggest Jack Hamm's "Drawing the Head and Figure" over this book. Lots of substance, and the instruction is done in a way that leaves lots of room to create a unique style.
Not Much Substance.......2005-06-10
Civardi is a talented artist, but there was little substance to the book. There was very little detail about the actual drawing process and skills that might be helpful. After actually seeing the book, I was very disappointed. I had the same problem with his drawing techniques book. Both were very brief, expensive and short on substance, more like pamphlets than instruction books. If all you want is a slender book with some examples of his work and you don't mind the price, you might like this, but someone looking to learn portraiture would be best served elsewhere.
good fo beginners.......2004-11-03
if you are interested in realism drawing this book will put you on a right track
Good examples of realist drawing.......2003-11-15
I'm something of a fan of Civardi's books because I like his clean, "classical realism" style. This book is rather thin and light in describing the details of technique or giving exercises. I wouldn't recommend it to an absolute beginner (if you're just learning to draw, you would probably be better off with Betty Edwards' flawed but effective "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" or a similar book). But if you've started regular drawing practice, and want some good examples of realist portrait drawing along with useful general advice on appoaches to the subject, this book may be worth a look.
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Veteran artist, illustrator, and teacher shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects. A brief review of anatomical structure is followed by detailed illustrations and clear instructions for drawing people of different ages and ethnic groups. 160 pages of figures; 25 halftones; 4 charts.
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A book fuzzy about who the target audience is........2006-05-10
"FIGURES & FACES": "A Sketcher's Handbook --by Hugh Laidman
(a DOVER book)
The book buyer needs to be aware of something called "PUBLISHER's MIND". Publishers, thus afflicted will send a book to press, even if there are already, 10, or 20, or 30...or MORE books just like it already in print, or even books "somewhat" like the new book.
What I do, is look out for the interest of the book buyer in these situations. If the new book is obviously, not better than the top several books in that field already on the market, I feel fair in suggesting the buyer look elsewere. Such is the case with this book.
The problem is that the most common book buyer will be the beginner wanting some help in learning to draw. These books are not always the same. Some will keep a clear focus on BEGINNING BEGINNER lessons. Books like this one, "Figures and Faces" start cutting back on basics at the BEGINNER level, and start offering INTERMEDIATE or even higher level lessons for "PROFESSIONALS". That is what this book tells you on the back cover. It is offering material for "art students" and "professionals". How could a beginner get a fair shake?
So beginners often find themselves overwhelmed when they find the lessons in their new book very difficult to copy. For another thing, this book is about FIGURE DRAWING, as it states in the first line of the back cover: (and read carefully!)
"Artist, illustrator, and teacher Hugh Laidman shows how simple and rewarding it can be to it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects--the male and female figures."
Well, well! Then why is it that author Hugh Laidman waits until page 47 FORTY-SEVEN, nearly 50 pages into his book, to even show the human body PROPORTION equal to 8 heads? I assure you, the reason is that author Laidman is showing 47 pages of stuff a beginner does not even need to be reading about. That lack of clear focus in a target audience, is why I object so strongly to new books like these. It's for fear that some beginner will be tricked into buying one.
What is missing in this book is a clear concept in the author's mind, which clarifies for the teacher what the beginning student needs to know.
The problem is that not all who can draw will make a good teacher. Many who can already draw, cannot teach it. Such is the case with "Figures and Faces".
Another reason this book displeases me is that it contains some detailed anatomy, and beginners, in my opinion, have almost no need for "detailed" anatomy. I do not like the authors use of CONTOUR, or GESTURE drawings in the early pages of the book. For that matter, I am vague about what the author means when he titles his book "A SKETCHER's Handbook". Is the author distinguishing lessons for SKETCHERS as differnt in some way from books for those just BEGINNING to draw? Who the heck knows? Laidman does not say.
Some of the illustrations are good. There are some of what Jack Hamm calls "SIMPLIFIED FIGURETTES". But this book tells you outright that it is for everyone, including PROFESSIONALS. Therefore, in a 159 page book, how many of these pages are actually for BEGINNERS, how many for INTERMEDIATE ARTISTS, and
how many for PROFESSIONALS? Once you consider the DETAILED ANATOMY, you might realize that the 159 pages are divided Four ways. That's hardly a bargain for a beginner, and probably not for anyone else, either.
I do not question Laidman's ability to draw, illustrate, and sketch. I do critique the author for a confused focus in lesson plan arrangement. I see many better books on the market.
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Drawing Figures and Faces
Barclay Sheaks
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Mind's Eye.......2000-06-16
It is hard for a lot of us to PICTURE in our mind what it is wewant to draw... even if it is as generic as, say, a manshyly/awkwardly looking over his shoulder. I'm a beginnig art director and now being asked to draw up storyboards. You need to convey both a person's emotion or reaction as well as their position in space. If you're like me, it's hard to do that without first looking at a stock book and trying to find someone in a similar pose to copy. This book helps you to do it more from memory and also gives a lot of good references for you to call on the next time you need to do a sketch.
Mind's Eye.......2000-06-16
It is hard for a lot of us to PICTURE in our mind what it is we want to draw... even if it is as generic as, say, a man shyly/awkwardly looking over his shoulder. I'm an art director, and when we draw up storyboards, we need to convey both a person's emotion or reaction as well as position in space. If you're like me, it's hard to do that without forst looking at a stock book and trying to find a person in a similar pose to copy. This book helps you to do it more from memory and also gives a lot of good references for you to call on the next time you need to do a sketch.
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Detailed, step-by-step instructions for drawing faces in a range of ages, ethnicities, and features
From the limitless variety of shapes that the human face can take to the subtleties of emotion conveyed by facial expressions, it's no wonder that faces present some of the most challenging subjects to draw. Knowing how to capture a human likeness is not only rewarding and fun, but it also gives an artist the confidence to explore a wider range of subjects and compositions. Top-selling artist Debra Kauffman Yaun gives clear, step-by-step instructions to guide artists in capturing the unique characteristics of the human face in pencil. The book opens with in-depth information on tools and materials, drawing and shading techniques, and the anatomy of the face. Showcasing a range of beautiful portrait studies, Yaun demonstrates the essence of depicting age, ethnicity, personality, and more. Artists will be inspired to grab their pencils and start drawing immediately-the paper's right there, bound into the book.
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Drawing and Painting Faces and Figures
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Implementing Total Safety Management
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This book introduces the unique concept of Total Safety Management (TSM) for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment. This can become a key element in an organization's formula for competitiveness. Using a step-by-step approach with examples and case studies throughout, the book provides a practical, how-to handbook that can be used as an annotated model for implementing TSM in any organization. It shows not only how organizations can create a work environment that is both safe and conducive to peak performance, but how a safe work environment becomes part of everybody's responsibility for creating and maintaining a strategy that will give an organization a sustainable competitive advantage. For anyone interested in Health & Safety Management, Occupational Safety, and Safety in the Workplace.
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The book provide me how to implement TSM.......1998-05-14
The book elaborate in step by step in how to implement the total safety management (TSM). Its a very good book, mentions about safety as tools with competitive advantage in global market place.
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