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This exciting title in the "Draw and Sketch" series shows readers how to render any animal they see with skill and accuracy. David Boys starts by providing an overview of basic equipment, guidelines for getting into the right frame of mind to draw, and hints for finding the right subject matter.
Next, readers will learn how to see any animal as a whole shape, rather than as a collection of individual details. Boys also provides instructions for getting proportions right.
Anatomy, fur, feathers and other details follow, along with more complex issues, such as light, shade, backgrounds, reflections and color. Specific exercises will help readers learn these various skills as they draw big cats, camels, pelicans, monkeys, penguins, elephants, deer and more.
David Boys has a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art, London. He has been an artist and illustrator for the London Zoo since 1985 and a lecturer at the Royal College of Art since 1989. He has exhibited his work at a number of prestigious institutions including the Natural History Museum and the Society of Wildlife Artists. He lives in Kent, England.
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Animal Sketching (Dover Art Instruction and Reference Books)
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Undisputed master of the simple expressive line. 141 full body sketches and enlarged details of animals in characteristic poses and movements. Calder covers cats, dogs, the elephant, birds, monkeys, the deer family, horses, cows, the lion, and more.
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Animal lovers can easily draw their favorite creatures. It’s simple, with this basic method that divides a complex subject into very manageable steps, making the process accessible and enjoyable. And with drawings of nine species on display, all showcasing the animal’s most prominent features, there’s lots of inspiration to get started. Each demonstration begins with a photograph that provides the basis of the sketch, and also includes a worksheet and a few different breeds. Select from dogs (among them a Pug/Chihuahua mix and a King Charles Spaniel), cats (a Tabby, Chinchilla, Maine Coon), horses, fowl, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, deer, and foxes. Introductory sections cover tools, materials, and all the fundamental strokes and techniques—including drawing fur and adding texture.
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wonderous and educational.......2000-03-27
There are art instruction books and then there are books that not only teach fundamentals but inspire a desire to devote time and patinence in the pursuit of a given subject matter. This book is one of them. The skill in drawing is equal to the passion and tenderness for the subject, yet in each chapter beginners and all the artistically curious are gently nudged to master basic skills that allow the mysteries of nature in spring to be explored. Working primarily in the simple medium of pencil Mr. Arnosky opens up the universe of nature. This is one of four books dealing with sketching and nature at the four major times of dramatic change;Spring Summer Winter and Fall. The drawings and encouragement shared are enough to get you up and hiking to find those exquisite moments when the senses and skill can be married for the high purpose of creating art even if only a beginner. Though I did not buy this book from amazon, I still have my copy to get me going when the sketching season begins here in the northeast. Do you, and those you know who love nature, a favor and buy this book. Who knows you may someday sketch a bumble bee sleeping between two large leaves and be spellbound.
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Wildlife Sketching: Pen, Pencil, Crayon and Charcoal Techniques
Frank Lohan
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Alwyn Crawshaw
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Take a look at the wild, bold, colorful, and naughty designs that have swelled men's chests throughout necktie history. Follow the development of this manly fashion, from fabrics to tie care, and enjoy an astounding kaleidoscope of colors and motifs. Hundreds of neck and bow ties from the late twentieth century are displayed in 340 color pictures. The designs range from the incredible "Bold Look" ties of the late 1940s and early 1950s to the thinly conservative ties of the late 1950s. The early 1960s produced mundane ties, but Pop, Op, and Psychedelic Art ushered in another era in the late 1960s and early 1970s called the "Peacock Look," characterized by extremely wide ties and extravagantly wild prints. Finally, take a tour of the stylistic progression ties made through the 1980s and 1990s.
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Cap goes cosmic in this collection of the King's comics! See the Living Legend and the high-flying Falcon fight monsters and madmen in a dimension of disaster, then follow up by fighting a futuristic phantom! Finally, accompany Cap on a tour of history conveyed by the curious Contemplator! Collects Captain America #201-205 and Bicentennial Battles #1.
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Jack "King" Kirby on one of his flagship characters!.......2005-07-25
In terms of character creation, there's little doubt that Jack Kirby was the most important comic creator of all time. During the great golden age of comics, he and Joe Simon created CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE GUARDIAN and the NEWSBOY LEGION, and many others, plus they revitalized THE SANDMAN with great results.
After superheroes died down in the fifties, Kirby created one of his signature books, the CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, a foursome of exceptional men who have escaped death in a plane crash, only to devote their "borrowed time" to adventure and crimefighting. By the end of the fifties, superheroes began coming back, and Kirby took over GREEN ARROW for a legendary run, cut short by editorial differences that drove him to leave DC Comics.
Settling in at Marvel, Kirby created (with only very minor input from Stan Lee) a number of well-remembered monster stories before he was asked by Lee to do a Marvel version of DC's new hit, the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. Kirby borrowed the basic idea of his old CHALLENGERS series and married it to a family concept with superpowers thrown in for good measure to create THE FANTASTIC FOUR, beginning the Marvel Age of Comics. With Kirby doing the story and art (and Stan Lee writing credit boxes and tweaking some dialogue so he could unfairly claim credit as "writer"), Marvel became a big thing very quickly. Kirby quickly created the INCREDIBLE HULK, IRON MAN, THE MIGHTY THOR, THE AVENGERS, S.H.I.E.L.D., the SILVER SURFER, BLACK PANTHER, and many many others. Other than Steve Ditko's work on SPIDER-MAN (whom Ditko re-designed from a failed Kirby prototpye, both of them borrowing heavily from THE FLY, a character owned by Archie Comics) and DOCTOR STRANGE, Kirby single-handedly populated the Marvel Universe. Eventually though, Kirby left Marvel to return to DC Comics for the first time in over a decade and a half.
This time, Kirby created his most cerebral work, THE FOURTH WORLD, which consisted of THE NEW GODS, MISTER MIRACLE, THE FOREVER PEOPLE, and oddly enough, a severely revamped SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN. Though these books were critical successes and are STILL considered ahead of their time in some ways, they sold only marginally well and were ultimately cancelled. Kirby replaced them with KAMANDI, THE LAST BOY ON EARTH, which cashed in on the Planet of the Apes craze, though the Kamandi idea actually pre-dated APES, and THE DEMON.
But eventually, the King returned home to Marvel once more, where he recast his NEW GODS into a Marvel context in THE ETERNALS, did a very memorable BLACK PANTHER series, returned to draw the AVENGERS for a run that still affects continuity today, and lastly, he took over CAPTAIN AMERICA just in time for the nation's bicentennial!
That's where this trade comes in. Collecting the second story arc after Kirby's return, plus his bicentennial treasury edition (originally a tabloid-sized comic). This is not Kirby's best work, but the King's second best still trumps just about everyone else, because this is the guy who DEFINES what good comics are about. Though others, like Eisner, made great contributions to storytelling, Kirby almost single-handedly invented how action and adventure are told in comic books! He is the foundation upon which an entire industry has been built.
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KIRBY SEARCHES FOR SILVER AGE FLAIR.......2005-07-11
Back in the mid-1970's, Jack Kirby would return to the character that he had co-created, Captain America. Now comic hype was nowhere near what it is today. There was no internet...no magazines like Wizard, and yet the news of Kirby returning to Captain America was highly anticipated, even by a 13 year old kid like me! Heck, anything had to be better than the art of Frank Robbins who had been doing Cap for sometime Prior to Kirby's return. I believe Kirby made his return around issue #194, as Steve Rogers, who had quit being Captain America to become Nomad, once again donned the red, white, and blue to battle the Red Skull.
This run of Kirby, and specifically the issues in this book have very much the look and feel of Kirby's great work of the 1960's from Tales of Suspense. They only problem was that this was no longer the mid-1960's it was now the mid-1970's. Younger, hotter artists had first begun to really push the industry in the early 1970's. Guys like Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Mike Kaluta, and others had ushered in a new era of gritty realism in comic art, and Steranko had done it on Captain America, albeit in a very limited run. And by this time John Buscema had really become the house artist at Marvel who others followed after, just as Kirby had been in the 1960's.
These Captain America stories have that 60's innocence about them and for nostalgia buffs and fans of Kirby, they will no doubt enjoy this book. But while I am a big Kirby fan there's no doubt that some of his dynamics were a bit lacking by this time. Still, it was great to see Kirby on Cap again after so many years.
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Historically revealing quotations tracing the evolution of gay and lesbian desire amid the myriad struggles for acceptance.
I am the love that dare not speak its name. —Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover
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