Step-by-Step Studio

“Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Lifelike Subjects” teaches beginning artists how to create realistic, detailed drawings in graphite pencil. Featuring in-depth instruction on basic drawing techniques, creating texture, developing likeness, and more, “Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Lifelike Subjects” is the perfect guide for you as a beginning or intermediate artist. After an introduction to basic materials and pencil techniques, four accomplished artists offer insight, tips, and step-by-step demonstrations that help create detailed, lifelike drawings of your chosen subjects, including animals, flowers, and landscapes. Learn to create texture and likeness using basic pencil techniques, understanding perspective, exploring light and shadow, developing values, and more. • Dogs & Puppies: From a soulful Basset Hound puppy to a full-grown German Shepherd, learn to draw your chosen breed step by step. • Flowers & Botanicals: Explains basic flower anatomy and how to render detailed still lifes and florals using basic pencil techniques to convey light and shadow. • Beautiful Landscapes: See the world through the eyes of an artist as you recreate coastal scenes, warm cottages, and pastoral landscapes. • Lifelike Animals: Capture the essence of your favorite wild animals, including elephants, tigers, lions, wolves, and more. Throughout the book, artists Diane Cardaci, Nolon Stacey, Linda Weil, and Diane Wright offer practical drawing techniques and easy-to-understand, step-by-step instruction, but also encouraging words. The journey through “Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Lifelike Subjects” is not about making perfect drawings, it's about achieving likeness and drawing skills with each new project, while having a great time.

“Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Concepts” offers the fundamental information beginning artists need to kick off their creative pursuits in graphite pencil. Featuring in-depth instruction on composition, value, creating textures, using and manipulating photo references, and more, “Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Concepts” is the perfect guide for you as a beginning or intermediate artist. After an introduction to art tools and materials and very basic techniques, four accomplished artists offer insight, tips, and helpful demonstrations that illustrate important art concepts and techniques. You will also find an impressive and varied selection of step-by-step projects to re-create, including still lifes, flowers, animals, landscapes, and portraits in the four sections. • Values: Covers shapes, form, the light source, how to create depth, and the elements of design. • Dynamic Compositions: Discusses viewpoint, the golden mean, symmetry and asymmetry, focal points, landscapes, and negative space. • Realistic Textures: Focuses on rendering the many different textures found in traditional still lifes, animals, people, plants and flowers, and landscapes. • Step-by-Step Exercises: Includes additional drawing projects, such as a teddy bear, landscape, horse, floral still life, portrait of a girl, and fruit and wine. Throughout the book, artists Ken Goldman, William F. Powell, Diane Cardaci, and Carol Rosinski offer practical and easy-to-understand drawing techniques and art principles. The journey through “Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Concepts” is not about making perfect drawings, it's about making each drawing better than the one before it, while having a great time.