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Art of Richard MacDonald
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Art of Richard MacDonald [hc]
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Sculpture inspired and presented by Cirque Du Soleil®, Richard MacDonald captures the art of visual performance in these high-quality prints. 13 x9 inches book size
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Fig. Drawing Design & Invention
An instructional figure drawing book geared towards the novice and experienced artist alike. This book emphasizes a simplified understanding of surface anatomy, in order for artists to understand invention and mechanics of the figure, creating a successful skill-set that can be applied in other media.
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Vilppu Drawing Manual
The Vilppu Drawing Manual is a series of 12 lessons and is 176 pages. The first chapter deals with the getting the gesture or action of the figure. The chapters progress, each one building on the previous one. The use of spherical forms, boxes and cylinders are thoroughly demonstrated and explained. A strong emphasis on basic procedures, fundamentals of anatomy, 2D and 3D observations. The final three chapters are devoted to the use of tone. Each chapter is thoroughly illustrated in a true how-to manner. This is not a coffee table book, it is a drawing manual.
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Head Drawing & Anatomy Vol. 1
This book parallels very closely the head drawing classes that I teach, and a majority of the illustrations were created as lecture demonstrations in class. Consequently, this is in reality a head drawing and anatomy manual to be used by students in my classes as a textbook. The use of this manual should be of equal value to those working on their own who are unable to attend my classes in person. The material is the same as in my classes with the advantage of portability and no time constraints. I have consistently found myself drawn to the fundamentals in teaching drawing. A solid grounding in the basics, approached as tools of expression, rather than rules that must be followed, free the artist allowing him or her to follow their individual direction. The basis of my approach is founded on very simple grounds. First, you must know how to describe form. Second, you must understand the form you are drawing. These first two give you the freedom of expression.
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Figure Drawing Demonstrations
In this book, I address the basic difficulty that many students have in class as well as in studying from reproductions of drawings. In class, I demonstrate by doing drawings showing each step in the process. Still, I find that even as the student watches me doing the drawing, it is difficult to remember all of the steps that went before the finished drawing. The use of a tablet computer now allows me to save and show each of the steps, so that the student can go back to the beginning as many times as needed. Use this book as a supplement to my Vilppu Drawing Manual and the DVDs of classroom lectures and demonstrations. The drawings vary from simple quick sketches with only a couple of steps to complicated finished drawings. All of the drawings were done in class as demonstrations on a Toshiba Portege tablet computer.
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Drawing Hands & Feet Manual
Hands are one of the strongest elements of expression in humans, and as such, the gesture of the hands is a vital part of the drawing. Hands and feet are particularly difficult because of the complexity of the forms to start with, and the variety of shapes, combinations and gestures they take. Hands and feet are subjects that seem to continually give artists a great deal of difficulty. There are many good books on anatomy, but few actually give much instruction on how to draw. Hopefully this small book will fill some of the gaps, if not in anatomy, in drawing. In this volume, I am presenting procedures and methods of drawing hands and feet that go back to the 15th century.
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Drawing Drapery Manual
As art students, we all spent most of our time drawing the nude figure. As professional artists, we rarely draw the nude figure. In drawing the draped figure, the natural tendency is to copy the pattern of the folds that we see. My focus in this book is to use the drapery as a means to describe the underlying form. Of course, in describing the form, the action of the form is a critical element so the drapery becomes a strong component of communicating the action. The folds created by the drapery fall into predicable patterns determined by the kind of drapery, the form that it goes over, the action of the form and, in the case of clothes, the cut and type. The predicable patterns are classified into seven basic folds, and combinations of these folds. Understanding these folds, and what causes them, allows the artist to draw the clothed figure from imagination. In drawing from the model, the understanding of the basic folds and their causes, gives you the ability to select the folds that best communicate the action and describe the form.
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