One hugely important aspect of an artist's skill is a facility with various techniques, with which to express his or her individual style. Being fluent in a range of techniques gives the artist a richer creative vocabulary. This book will help artists to expand their understanding of available media.

Examples of Chinese, classical, European, and American drawings illustrate the evolution of drawing styles and techniques

An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.

"Learn how to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings that are convincing enough to fool the eye! This book shows you how to make incredibly realistic colored pencil drawings in 10 easy step-by-step lessons. Follow along as author Cocomaru explains how to depict highlights, shadows and refractions, how to render photorealistic textures, and how to create a sense of depth in your drawings that makes them appear truly real! Photorealistic Colored...

Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating. Her innovative ideas are now collected and elaborated on in this unique volume. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life. Drawing Lab for...

Andrew's scribbles with a crayon he found become better and better until he is making drawings so realistic that they come right off the page.