Sketching Your Favorite Subjects In Pen Ink

In Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink, Claudia Nice covers all aspects of pen and ink drawing. You'll find complete instruction for and demonstration of techniques such as crosshatching, stippling, texture and value contrasts, as well as the use of contour, parallel and scribble lines. All of theses techniques are illustrated throughout by the author's striking works. You'll find chapters detailing: Houses and Buildings: using freehand and architectural styles, learn to detail barns, houses and cityscapes. Animals: draw realistic animals by focusing on anatomy, facial features and hair texture. The Plant Kingdom: learn to sketch plants, flowers, leaves and trees - from an individual flower to an entire forest. Faces and Figures: sketch realistic, dynamic figures and capture varying moods. Birds: learn to draw lifelike feathers, eyes, bills and feet. Waterscapes: capture the reflections of a quiet brook and the spray of crashing surf.

Got a yearning to pick up a pen and see what you can do? Go for it! But don't sketch alone—let popular artist and teacher Claudia Nice be your guide. She'll make your first steps fun and successful! In her trademark style—friendly and encouraging—Claudia will show you how to do a sketch of a subject that actually ends up looking like the subject. And she shares her secrets for turning simple lines and dots into all kinds of lifelike textures, including leaves, glass, hair, fruit, water, clouds, wood grain, grass, fur and feathers. Easy (and fun!) exercises get you started. Step-by-step projects teach techniques as you draw trees, flowers, barns, animals and other subjects—even people! And demonstrations show you how to put all that you've learned together to create a finished picture. So go ahead—grab that pen and have fun! Just follow along with Claudia to get the hang of it, and before you know it you'll be making your own, original pen-and-ink drawings!

Master the basics of pen and ink drawing and fill your sketchbook with breathtaking art with this all-in-one guidebook. You?ll learn the most important techniques of the pen and ink medium so you can capture your favorite subjects in beautiful detail. Tri Le Shiba, a professional artists and educator, guides you through his foolproof course, helping you master key concepts in sketching and shading with a pen. Then, you?ll practice what you?ve learned in drawing projects of portraits, nature scenes, still lives, doodles and more!This book sets you up for success with straightforward lessons on once-intimidating subjects like sketching your forms, cross-hatching, scratching and stippling. You?ll perfect the motions and linework of each technique, then cement your skills in larger works. Learn how shading denotes value in a piece, then sketch a still life, capturing the dark and light portions with only ink. Practice hatching and cross-hatching, then use both in a nature scene to detail the grasses and leaves. By the end of this book, you?ll have sketched buildings, outdoor landscapes and human figures and faces and have every skill you need to capture your world with just a pen.

Capture the Rich Textures of Nature, Step by Step Capture nature's beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist and teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in hand, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth and textured detail. Open this guide and start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step-by-step demonstrations and exercises, you'll learn to recreate the textural elements of a range of terrains and landscapes. Chapters include: • Creative clouds and skies • Majestic mountains, hills and mesas • Texturing trees, trunks and foliage • Rugged rocks and gritty gravel • Transparent textures for rivers, falls and lakes • Flowers of the field In a special section, Claudia covers basic texturing techniques with mini demos using lines, dots, bruising, scribbling, spattering, blotting, printing, stamping and more. From paints and pens to sponges, leaves and facial tissue, you'll explore all kinds of fun and inventive ways to create amazing textures. And to help you put it all together, Claudia includes her masterful advice for creating compositions using reference photos, field sketches and your own creative license. Each demonstration features a large image of the completed landscape, so you can see exactly how Claudia's methods work - from start to finish.

A pen is mightier than a sword! And two sketching books together are mightier than any single book. The Omnibus of Pen Sketching is a combination of two bestseller art instruction books - Get-Set-Sketch! - Sketch like a Boss! (You will receive it as a single book with the content of two exciting books) This book contains everything you need to learn the art of pen sketching, right from the basics to complex subjects. It contains 22 exercises that will demonstrate step-by-step how you can draw stunning sketches. GET-SET-SKETCH! SECRETS OF PEN AND INK SKETCHING UNLEASHED! Unleash the artist within you! Get ready to embark on a magical journey through the realm of Pen and Ink Sketching. Learn to “see” shapes, shadows, and textures all around you, like an artist. Learn various pen and ink shading techniques. – Hatching – Cross-hatching – Contour shading – Stippling – Random – Using Inks for shading Learn to draw and sketch: – Trees, Grass, and Shrubs – Stones and Rocks – Animal Fur – Wood – Water And two complete, step-by-step exercises + FREE lifetime access to two video trainings, where you will learn to implement all these techniques. Let’s Get, Set and Sketch! SKETCH LIKE A BOSS - FROM NOVICE TO A BOSS ILLUSTRATOR IN TWENTY EASY STEPS Now discover the true power of a pen in this amazing guide to sketching like a boss. This one-of-a-kind exercise book will set all your sketching fears to rest and guide you step-by-step in drawing the most awesome illustrations. Come join Shirish on this amazing journey of discovery. What will you learn? -- The concepts of shadows and highlights. -- Shading techniques using pens. -- Various 'texture hacks' for drawing objects like glass, stones, bricks, wood -- Drawing human figures in the landscape. -- Basic perspective concepts. And that's not all. You will learn to implement all these techniques hands-on in twenty amazing step-by-step demonstrations, spanning subjects of various levels of difficulty ranging from simple to complex. Simple subjects: -- A Football -- An Ice Cream Cone -- A Plain Candle and a Half-Melted Candle -- A Leaf -- A Fruit -- A Mineral Water Bottle Medium subjects: -- An Old Wooden Door -- A Truck -- The Stairs -- A Shopfront -- An Abandoned Car -- A Small Boat -- A Banyan Tree Trunk -- A Shrine Complex subjects: -- An Old Victorian Building -- A Small Temple at the Crossroads -- An Old Stone Building Converted into an Office -- An Old Telephone -- A Church -- A House in Hawaii Let’s get sketching like a Boss!

This guide explores styles and subjects of drawing and the range of effects possible with the materials available today. Experiment with the new pens and markers, and decide which media are your favorites. Chapters include drawing sunlight and shadow; composition and layout; perspective; getting life and character into a drawing; line and mixed media; and sketchbook studies. Complete with 120 illustrations.

This richly illustrated manual for beginning, intermediate, and advanced artists covers everything from hatching, tones, and stippling to dealing with the problems that can arise when adding texture, light, and shade.

Capture the beauty and charm of wonderful weathered buildings! Paint may fade and iron may rust, but the character of buildings strengthens with age. Join Claudia Nice as she shows you how to portray the mellow hues, weathered wood, cracked windowpanes and other imperfections that make old buildings perfectly wonderful subjects to paint. Using the exciting combination of pen, ink and watercolor, Claudia will help you discover the joy of painting barns, farmhouses, painted ladies, southern mansions and other beautiful, classic buildings. Like a treasured artist's journal, this book is filled with art, inspiration and handwritten notes, along with Claudia's friendly, step-by-step instruction.