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The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Art Instruction)

This thoughtful and incisive guidebook, written by a former animator for Walt Disney Studios, will help artists at many skill levels improve their ability to draw a wide variety of animal forms both realistically and as caricatures.You’ll learn why the author considers construction, action analysis, and caricature all-important for a clear understanding of animal anatomy and movement. You’ll …

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Cartoon Faces: How to Draw Heads, Features & Expressions (Cartoon Academy)

Make a face—a funny face! The personality of a cartoon character begins with the face: the head, the features, the expressions. Get that right and you can create a memorable personality. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart presents the ultimate tutorial on the topic in masterful detail, covering characters both male and female, from babies to adults, in all …

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20 Ways to Draw a Cat and 44 Other Awesome Animals: A Sketchbook for Artists, Designers, and Doodlers

This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes–cat, giraffe, seal, elephant, whale and much, much more–over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to …

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The Animator’s Sketchbook

Creating an animated film takes a lot of work, from the texture of a character’s hair to the shot sequence of a high-speed car chase. This Pixar-branded sketchbook provides a single volume in which to record the incredible journey of the making of an animated film. It covers the full preproduction process with discrete sections for Concept, Color, …

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A Disney Sketchbook

Imagine if one sketchbook had been passed down through the decades from one Disney animator to the next, with each one making a contribution before leaving it in the talented hands of another artist. That idea was the inspiration for A Disney Sketchbook. The drawings contained within it represent the entire range of animation development, from the origins …

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Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Art Deco

By the same artists that brought you the #1 Amazon Bestseller, “Stress Relieving Patterns, Vol. 1.” This adult coloring book features 50 extravagant, bold Art Deco designs inspired by the roaring 1920s – the era of the Great Gatsby, the flapper girl and the birth of jazz. Designs range in complexity from …

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Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels

Best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis reveals the comic book writing secrets behind his work on The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men, and more.One of the most popular writers in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis reveals the tools and techniques he and other top creators use to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories …

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