The Sketch In Color

Reviews composition, perspective, and color use, explains how to work with watercolors, pens, markers, and colored pencils, and demonstrates basic sketching techniques

In A Color for Sketch, Mister Doodle tries to figure out what color to paint his dog Sketch's doghouse. This house needs a touch up, he thought. Paint would do the trick! But what color would Sketch like best? What color would he pick? Maybe a refreshing shade of blue, like the color of the sea. Or the golden yellow of a humming honeybee. As his search for a color that Sketch would approve of comes to an end, Mister Doodle soon realizes that he's actually known the perfect color all along!

A guide to sketching and the use of color that includes instructions on the use of pencils, oil pastels, dry pastels, pen and brush, watercolor, and mixed media.

A guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring their drawings to life with colorful, bold, yet accessible painting methods. Watercolor sketching is a rapidly emerging technique that enlivens sketches done in pen or pencil with the expressive washes, glazes, and luminous hues of watercolor . This lushly illustrated resource teaches artists on the go how to sketch with watercolor, rendering subjects efficiently and without inhibitions. Readers are guided through all aspects of the medium, from fundamental techniques including wet-on-wet, glazing, and washes; materials and supplies; and little known tips and tricks for getting the most out of watercolor (for example, just sprinkling a little salt on your painting creates a texture that's impossible to achieve with a brush.) A strong focus color theory provides a solid foundation for enhancing drawings with vibrant hues.

★ To Preview Layouts, check the back cover of the book ★ With this book, you will have fun trying and testing your art supplies and creating some exceptional personalized themes and color combinations based on new inspirations, moods, images... You can mention each theme you created with its page number in the customizable table content, which will keep you more organized and makes it easy to find when you need it. TIP: Even the paper of this book is a premium quality, and thick enough, it's better to place a piece of cardboard paper under the page while coloring to prevent any eventual unwanted bleed through and indents. Color Swatches Themes: ◆ Swatch out your markers, colored pencils and gel pens with these 48 colors blank boxes per page, perfect for any art sets. ◆ You can create your color themes based on your design style, your art supplies, different hues of each color and combinations, there is a blank page for each swatch page that allows you to test and try colors before referencing them in boxes or you can also take some free notes and do some sketches... ◆ These 3504 blank color boxes (48 boxes/page x 73 pages) are the perfect way to see the color quality of your art tools..

Learn to draw incredibly photorealistic pets, exotic animals, horses, and more with Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil in this follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil.

Reviews composition, perspective, and color use, explains how to work with watercolors, pens, markers, and colored pencils, and demonstrates basic sketching techniques

Master the skills to create your very own manga! Expert manga artist Mark Crilley guides you to another level with this powered-up drawing book. Complete your Crilley collection with this third installation, which elevates the instruction to focus on drawing methods to help you create distinctive and detailed professional-level manga art. Through 40 in-depth step-by-step demonstrations not covered in other Mastering Manga books, Mark reveals his secrets for adding color, how to draw manga-style animals, ways to use photo reference, his preferred art supplies and how to fix character inconsistencies. The book is broken down into three sections: • Characters and Styles. Learn how to draw characters in every manga style--elegant Shojo, angular Dark Fantasy, action-packed Shonen and cute cartoon. Includes non-human characters like animal familiars (realistic or chibi) and aliens. Break-out lessons focus on anatomy, hairstyles and all genres of clothing, from classic anime uniforms to fantasy costuming. • Poses and Action. Make your characters bold, memorable and full of vitality. Get the most out of your poses by learning how to create natural, standing and dynamic running poses, plus sword fights, romantic Shojo interactions and stances for animals, manga monsters, chibi cuties and mech a robots. Advanced lessons include how to convey a sense of motion, tips on body language and how to effectively using foreshortening. • Finishing Touches. Elevate your art with Mark's professional instruction on completing your comic. These final lessons include page layouts, logo design, how to place a character in a setting, correctly using dialogue and speech bubbles, advanced costume design (fantasy armor, wings, and more) and how to create attention-grabbing cover art. "Manga is all about fresh concepts and fascinating characters. You've got ideas. You've invented new characters. There's a whole world waiting to see what you've come up with!" --Mark Crilley