Starting to Draw (Artist's Painting Library)

Starting to Draw (Artist's Painting Library)
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Great Book to Start Drawing

Starting to Draw (Artist's Painting Library)
Wendon Blake , and Ferdinand Petrie
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2006-05-01

Book Description

• Makes drawing easy and approachable for everyone • Step-by-step illustrations show exactly how to understand the logic of drawing and use it to create art • 25th anniversary of a classic!

"Drawing is a skill that anyone can learn," says the author in his introduction—and this book has been teaching that skill for twenty-five years. Now it will be teaching to the next generation of artists. Lots of books are great for the more advanced sketcher—but Starting to Draw is the best book for the absolute beginner, packed with fundamentals and simple building blocks of success. Time-tested text and clear, easy-to-follow drawings make this book the classic that every artist needs. Guidance on everything from equipment and warming up to drawing basic shapes to demonstrations on capturing landscapes, figures, and still lifes, Starting to Draw sets emerging artists off on a great adventure of learning and creating.

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Great Book to Start Drawing.......2001-05-20

I have been through alot of books trying to discipline myself to learn to draw better.The basis for all art! This book has step by step great examples For teaching you draw ! You cannot beat the price for what you get!!Worth every penny and MORE!!

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When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion's vociferous opponents, from the "dress reform" movement to certain strands of feminism. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or subvert it. This brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the "boho chic" of the mid 90's, retro-dressing, and the meanings of dress from the veil to soccer player David Beckham's pink-varnished toenails.

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Adorned in Dreams, Fashion and Modernity
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The shocking ending to a great series!!.......2005-02-09

The final book in the MKR series, cycle one. Hikaru, Umi and Fuu, summoned to Cephiro to save the princess from the evil Zagato, must revive the Mashin, great spirits in the form of huge meccha, and defeat Zagato¡¦s minions; the little boy summoner, Ascot, the lovely Gardina, and former chief of the princess¡¦ guard, Lafarga the swordsman. Will they triumph? Can they become Magic Knights in time to save Caphiro? Will Umi and Mokona ever get along? Can Mokona say anything but Puu?! The answers to all these questions and more can be found only in the MKR1 final volume!!!
A word of caution; before you finish reading the first three volumes, don¡¦t read the reviews of the second series of MKR, because just reading the reviews will ruin the shocking surprise of the ending. It¡¦s also kind of a cliffhanger ending, so buy the second series also. It¡¦s even better than he first, and all the loose threads of the first series are tied up. =^-^=

1. Story: Great story, very classical Shoujo storyline, but definitely original and captivating.
2. Love Interest: Come on guys, it¡¦s a Shoujo manga; it¡¦s got the cutest love stories ever, but in the first cycle only Fuu gets a love interest, but boy! What a guy she gets! Don¡¦t worry parents, nothing offensive, and there isn¡¦t even any kissing ¼.
3. Artwork: Gorgeous. And you can trust my opinion; I draw manga, so I know good artwork when I see it, seriously.. The rest of the artwork will have you drooling (especially over Zagato) and the character design is scrumptious, but some of the battle scenes are confusing until you get the hang of them and know what to look for. I love the profile shots, especially of Emeraude.
4. Translation: Great translation; great fonts. Princess Emeraude, Zagato and the Mashin all have their own personal fonts, a really neat stylistic quirk. Even the speech bubbles are different, depending on whether the character is shouting, thinking or just talking. It really adds depth to the story. There is a small problem cuz Japanese isn¡¦t written like English, so the speech bubbles are taller than they are wide, but that¡¦s usually not a problem. ¡¥Why don¡¦t you¡¦ is spelled ¡¥Whydoncha¡¦ and Ferio charmingly greets the girls with, ¡¥who are y¡¦all?¡¦ but overall it was perfect.
5. Quality: Excellent Quality, it¡¦s a beautiful book that will not fall apart like the Sailor Moon manga reportedly does. It reads from right to left; Japanese form, but since I can read and write Arabic, it came naturally to me. On the last page is a quick, useful tutorial to show you how to read authentic manga in it¡¦s original form. Words don¡¦t lead off the page or anything, and the paper is beautiful.
6. Nudity: NONE
7. Price: Ok, now, as much as I love manga, ten bucks for a 120-page comic book is kind of a lot. True manga fans like myself would never blink an eye at the price of ground-breaking manga like MKR, but when your parents pay for everything online, it makes your life hard ¡Vsigh-

It¡¦s easy to see how anime is adapted from manga; reading manga is like watching anime; the expressions, the fight scenes, the characters, everything. There¡¦s a lot of laugh-out-loud fun, mainly from Mokona, but there is also the usual, shoujo sweet-talk. The girls call each other sisters, would gladly sacrifice themselves for one another, etc. The girls don¡¦t go up levels and stuff like I was led to believe, but Fuu compares their situation to that of RPG games. In this volume, their armor and swords evolve three times almost simultaneously, giving Fuu the coolest sword ever! (My favorite girl is Hikaru, by the way) Definitely worth every penny, and a great place to start any manga library. Puu!
Don't forget to buy the next cycle: MKR2 !!!

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Amazing story and beautifal art.
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Magic Knight: Rayearth I, Book 2
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Amazing story and beautifal art........2005-11-26

Rayearth is about three girls Hikaru,Umi and Fuu that were from Tokyo,Japan who were sent to a land called Cephiro to save Princess Emraude,the pillar(which is like the heart of Cephiro),from the one she loves; Zagato. The reason she must be saved from Zagato is the Pillar can not show love tourds anything besides Cephiro. But first Hikaru,Umi and Fuu must find the ancient ruin Gods,Windam,Rayearth and Seilus,(the girls all ready found Windam)and the mineral of excuta .So far only Hikaru has her magic (the magic of fire) though but latter in the book Umi and Fuu get there magic too (with the help of there bunny/marshmellow friend Mokona). Plus Fuu mets the man of her dreams^_^!(Ferio). The art is beautiful and the story's amazing but I do recomend it for some one 13 and older for some battle violence.
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Groundbreaking Manga.......2005-02-09

Hikaru, Umi and Fuu were summoned to Cephiro to save Princess Emeraude from the evil Zagato, but before they can become Legendary Magic Knights, they must first get some wicked cool weapons! With the help of Ferio the swordsman, Presea the pharle (weapon maker), Clef the greatest magician in the land and the cute fluffy Mokona, these girls are sure to go far! But what about that chick in the skimpy outfit, Alcione, sent by Zagato to kill them? Can they use their magic to protect themselves? And where does Mokona always disappear to whenever there¡¦s a battle? How does she manage to look so cute? What is her secret?!?
To find out the answers to all these questions and more, buy the second volume of the MKR series!! =^-^=

1. Story: Great story, very classical Shoujo storyline, but definitely original and captivating. I loved it!
2. Love Interest: Come on guys, it¡¦s a Shoujo manga; it¡¦s got the cutest love stories ever, but in the first cycle only Fuu gets a love interest, but boy! What a guy she gets! Ferio is really cute, and he¡¦s the only shonen that doesn¡¦t have shoulders out to here, and stands mountains tall compared to the girls. He isn¡¦t even wrapped up in cloaks, or have tons of hair, but he does have the coolest, wicked cool sword!!! (Don¡¦t worry parents, nothing offensive to the romance, and there isn¡¦t even any kissing ¼.)
3. Artwork: Gorgeous. And you can trust my opinion; I draw manga, so I know good artwork when I see it, seriously. Mokona and Fuu are not drawn to my tastes in the first cycle; Mokona has these weird cheeks, but that¡¦s just me. The rest of the artwork will have you drooling (especially over Zagato) and the character design is scrumptious, but some of the battle scenes are confusing until you get the hang of them and know what to look for.
4. Translation: Great translation; great fonts. Princess Emeraude and Zagato both have their own personal fonts, a really neat stylistic quirk. It really adds depth to the story. There is a small problem cuz Japanese isn¡¦t written like English, so the speech bubbles are taller than they are wide, but that¡¦s usually not a problem. ¡¥Why don¡¦t you¡¦ is spelled ¡¥Whydoncha¡¦ and Ferio charmingly greets the girls with, ¡¥who are y¡¦all?¡¦ but overall it was perfect.
5. Quality: Excellent Quality, it¡¦s a beautiful book that will not fall apart like the Sailor Moon manga reportedly does. It reads from right to left; Japanese form, but since I can read and write Arabic, it came naturally to me. On the last page is a quick, useful tutorial to show you how to read authentic manga in its original form. Words don¡¦t lead off the page or anything, and the paper is beautiful.
6. Nudity: NONE (Only two skimpy outfits; nothing to worry about)
7. Price: Ok, now, as much as I love manga, ten bucks for a 120-page comic book is kind of a lot. I have to buy everything online, so I¡¦m under my parent¡¦s thumb, and though I would gladly produce the money myself, they don¡¦t approve of it. ¼ -sigh-
8. Mokona¡¦s in it. Puuuu?

Another cool perk about this series is the extra part at the end of the book, where CLAMP talks to you (manga style) and tell you about the anime, the artbooks and, of course, themselves!! They¡¦re drawn in cute chibi-form, with some info on CLAMP¡¦s team. Puu! Puu!!

Wow!.......2004-04-14

Once again, I am impressed with Clamp's artwork and storyline. The story starts of where Ferio joins the girls, and after a major showdown with Alcionie, they go their seperate ways. Unlike in the anime, the Fuu/Ferio relationship is shown more in depth, and is much more romantic and fluffier than in the anime. Also, he doesn't hit on Umi, although she is the first one to figure out that Fuu has feelings for Ferio, while Hikaru is clueless, as usual. The artwork is amazing, and the character development is noteworthy. :)

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Some Don't Get It.......2007-06-18

This book is to be read with your online dictionary up and running. It reminds me of when I learned to read 50 years ago -- an enlighted teacher told me, "If you want to understand what the writer is saying, then never skip a word that you do not understand (is beyond your vocabulary)." In this book (unlike his others) RA Moody uses vocabulary like a scalpel under a magnifier, and editors were not allowed to "dumb it down" to Jr. high reading level. I agree with him on the three classifications of personality types that marshall into their camps on NDE. I agree with his observations and analyses, as well as his recommended approach to break up the unending "logjam," so we can each move ahead in exploring NDE and other phsychic phenomena from a more relaxed (less uptight, dogmatic, open-minded, free from emnity, etc.) approach. This is a great book for those who are not offended by having their "correct" interpretation of paranormal challenged. Go back and read the first sentence again. The English language is wonderful and so occidental.

Long on Integrity, short on style.......2006-03-16

One cannot escape a sense of wonder when reading the various descriptions of NDEs by those who have had them. These experiences are invariably fascinating, often life changing for those who have them, and reading about them nudges us toward cautious optimism, for exactly what, we do not know. An undirected, unspecific and limited optimism is the most we can take from these experiences without overreaching.

Moody tells us that the trouble comes when we embrace these NDEs as proof of life after death, to legitimize our work or opinion about them or when we use their subjective quality and lack of scientific access to dismiss them altogether. And of course, science (scientific method) has been unable to explain either what they are or to explain them away.

It is easy to agree with Dr. Moody's sense that those fundamentalists who dismiss these experiences as the work of the Devil are the most deplorable of the lot of interested parties. Still, all of these groups holding claims as to what NDEs really are, or are not, share more with one another than they would have you believe. The all make emotional investments in their positions regarding NDEs than is justified by what is known about them. Even with regard to science, as long as there is the unknown, which there undoubtedly always will be, it, too, is ultimately an "ism" or "belief".

Just as mystical union, enlightenment, the spontaneous mystical experience and Deity itself, are beyond the domain of proof or dismissal, so should we deem the mysterious, even if tantalizing, NDE. Moody encourages us to take comfort from NDEs, laugh at them or be skeptical, but not to take ourselves any more seriously than is merited by what we really know about them. Clearly, the interested parties, whether parapsychologists, fundamentalists or skeptics, feel obliged by the strength of their emotional investments regarding NDEs to say more about them than is justified by any real understanding.

One can feel the disappointment, even anger, in the reviews of those whose prejudices have been challenged by Moody's plea to consider NDEs in a more honest, realistic and humorous context. It is one thing to be inclined toward one or the other of the major positions regarding NDEs but is another to claim definitive knowledge of what they are and what they are not.

I would have given 5 stars for this book if Moody's awkward, certainly odd, writing style and attempts at humor (faults mentioned by other reviewers) weren't so distracting, not to mention tedious. It's one thing to talk about humor, another to be humorous. Nonetheless, this work earned a solid four stars for its integrity, a quality that is too often missing in this genre.

This book was not for me!.......2005-09-19

This book was not at all what I had expected or hoped. I thought it was a scientific look at paranormal phenomena, but this was not that at all. It's not that the book is badly written, or that it's uninteresting and without merit, but it's nearly 200 pages of Mr. Moody's thoughts and research on the history and definitions of the paranormal and the groups of people who are interested in the paranormal and why they are interested. I wasn't interested in reading a thesis of the Paranormal and the Men and Women who love it. If you are the kind of person who loves to tear things apart and study them piece by piece you will enjoy this book very much.

I bought a book about NDE's, apparitions, and the paranormal and I got a thesis on the history of the paranormal and why people are interested. Regardless of how well thought out Mr. Moody's ideas are, and regardless of how accurate these ideas may be, this book is not at all what I expected. It's my own fault, the back cover clearly states what this book is about. But I saw the words "paranormal," and "NDE's" and figure the book was about those things. The back cover is somewhat misleading, however, about this new NDE phenomena that he calls an "empathic near death experience." Moody hardly does more than mention it really. I was terribly disappointed. Moody is not the first author to bring this phenomena up, either. Oriah Mountain Dreamer talks about her experience with this in her book "The Invitation." Hers is a first person account of an empathic near death experience, although she doesn't give it a name. I learned as much or more about it from her in her book than from what Moody talks about in his.

The Last Laugh is prefaced by Neale Donald Walsch, which is why I bought this book in the first place. How wrong I was! I won't be trusting Walsch's judgment on books anymore.

Another problem I had with this book was the way the author seems to delight in bashing Christian Fundamentalists. While I understand the sentiment, I thought it was in rather bad taste. Neale Donald Walsch is a huge proponent of religious tolerance, I'm surprised he added his seal of approval to this book. Perhaps he felt that as Christian Fundamentalists are religiously intolerant by definition that the CF bashing in this book was fair play. To be fair, Moody does take the time to warn Christian Fundamentalists not to read past a very specific point because they aren't going to like what follows. And he's right, they won't.

In summation, don't buy this book if you are hoping for a scientific look at NDE's, apparitions, and the paranormal. Do buy this book if you would like to read a thesis on who is interested in the paranormal and why.

Moody doges and weaves.......2005-04-08

A very odd book.

I do not take exception with Moody for "backtracking" on, or no longer appearing as a true believer in, NDE's reality. That would be his right if he chose to do so, but it isn't clear to me that he is in fact backtracking. In fact, that's the entire problem with this book - not that Moody is suddenly undermining the valdity of the NDE by calling it entertainment, but more that it simply isn't at all clear what he's doing here - if anything.

Moody is not being explicit enough about what is the exact target and logical scope of his claim that "It's all entertainment".

It is one thing to say: "I don't know if NDE is real or not, but the human discussions of NDE are a form of entertainment." But at times he gets slippery and seems to imply that not only are the human discussions of the NDE a form of cultural (human created and exploited) entertainment, but that in addition, the NDE experience itself is somehow being offered to us by some transcendent power or will in the universe in order to entertain us.

That last is a very different and rather interesting and radical claim, if he's really making it. The book is so badly written that it appears he never draws a clear distinction between the NDE (and other paranormal stuff) as a cultural topic within the normal human material and semantic space vs. the NDE as a (possible) "real" ultimate experience with its own transcendent validity (which again may also be 'entertainment' in a cosmic sense, but that concept is radically different from the claim that NDE accounts and speculations function as an entertaining topic in ordinary live human discourse.

It may seem like splitting hairs, but it is a real logical confusion. Suppose I bought a book on earthquakes. For me at least, the aspect of greatest interest would be the reality of earthquakes, their frequency and severity, research on early warnings, building reinforcement methods and so on - things deriving from an understanding that earthquakes are real.

But if the books author went on and on about the entertainment value of earthquake movies and stories and the shock value of dramatic photos and what not, saying that these materials function culturally to enteratain us, and then only hinting slyly that earthquakes might or might not be real (and if real, they might or might not be experienced as a kind of entertainment) - I guess I'd agree but who cares?

I want to know: Do earthquakes really happen? And if they do, let's just talk about them straighforwardly rather than get into this side discussion of the possible entertainment value of earthquake related derivative works. It isn't exactly false, it just doesn't matter much. Anyway Moody just doesn't make clear whether he's making the radical claim that the universe/God itself is providing a true death survival mechanism for us humans (in order to entertain us), or if it is merely the prosaic claim that we humans are entertaining (or scaring) ourselves with such stories.

At a high level though, Moody has a good concept with an ancient pedigree - the ancient Hindu's clearly labeled all of material creation as "lila" - the great play of the gods.

A Definite 'Bonk'!.......2005-03-10

I am not often motivated to rate books, but this one annoyed me. It is dull, repetitive, disorganized and discouraging. As another reviewer noted, I guess I just didn't get the joke. Don't buy it unless you want to be bored and depressed.

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