ART BOOKS

Step-by-step instructions on how to draw lifelike horses and ponies. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape and progresses to a finished piece of artwork.

How To Draw Manga Boys This book from artist Li (Mecha Mangprovideside a text-free step-by-step guidance for drawing manga characters. Sequential colour-coded sketches walk the reader through illustrating many charming human manga personalities. A simple exercise per page ends with a full-colour finished character illustration. Aside from the author's short introduction no other words are found in these guides. Li emphasizes energetic poses and narrative suggestion in this book. Portraying a range of emotions and facial expressions in the manga style is demonstrated throughout. Ideal for children and younger teens. Author: Yishan Li

28 easy-to-follow simple shapes and step-by-step illustrations to get you drawing these wonderful manga chibi characters.

How To Draw Manga Girls This book from artist Li (Mecha Mangprovideside a text-free step-by-step guidance for drawing manga characters. Sequential colour-coded sketches walk the reader through illustrating many charming human manga personalities. A simple exercise per page ends with a full-colour finished character illustration. Aside from the author's short introduction no other words are found in these guides. Li emphasizes energetic poses and narrative suggestion in this book. Portraying a range of emotions and facial expressions in the manga style is demonstrated throughout. Ideal for children and younger teens. Author: Yishan Li

This chilling introduction to drawing monsters completely demystifies the drawing process, showing how images can be built up easily, from initial geometric shapes right through to the finished creatures. Jim McCarthy includes a terrifying selection of monsters; choose from Fang Monster, Horned Monster, Red Monster, Eye Bug Monster and many more. Jim uses a helpful two-colour method that clearly shows every line and curve of the step-by-step pictures

How To Draw People in Action This book features a range of subjects including runners walkers swimmers and dancers in various dynamic poses such as bending jumping skipping and playing sport. There are 28 pages of two-colour step-by-step line drawings plus a finished image in full colour. There is one subject per page and the sequences are not overly complex. The method of illustration is simple: basic geometric shapes evolve stage by stage into the finished forms. In order to make the sequences easier to follow the artists use different coloured pencils for each of the stages. The colours act as a guide with new shapes built on old shapes and distinguishing features are added as the images develop. The penultimate stages show tonal representations of the subject and the final stage is a full-colour image of the finished drawing. The drawings are designed to inspire and will act as a starting point to help the reader capture their unique creative flair. Author: Susie Hodge

How To Draw Wild Animals This nicely illustrated book shows you how to draw an exciting selection of wild animals including lions elephants leopards and beans. Author: Jonathan Newey.

Expert comic book and manga artist Yishan Li shows you how to achieve amazingly adorable drawings in just a few simple steps

How to See It How to Draw It The Perspective Workshop Perspective is an essential skill for anyone who wants to draw or paint in any genre and in any medium. Matthew Brehm teaches you how to understand and apply this intuitive skill in this wonderful reference book packed full of exercises and a unique image quiz to practice putting your observational skills to the test. By the end of the book you will be able to apply perspective without a ruler or drafting table! There is also a 30-page workbook to hone your skills. Author: Matthew Brehm

Learn how to paint stunning watercolours filled with colour and light in Jean Haines' loose and expressive style.

Paint Yourself Calm Colourful creative mindfulness through watercolour. Author: Jean Haines

Accomplished artist Jean Haines shares her passion for watercolours in this wonderful book packed full of colour and life. It will alter the way you think about watercolours and painting forever providing a unique and refreshing guide that you will return to again and again for ideas and inspiration.

Known for her exciting techniques and love of colour Jean takes you on a magical painting journey on which she provides expert guidance and easy-to-follow exercises that will make you want to pick up a brush and get painting straight away.

Jean believes that all of us have the ability to be a great artist and whether you are completely new to painting lack confidence in your abilities simply dream of creating beautiful works of art or just want to loosen up your painting style this book will provide everything you need to fulfil that dream.

Author: Jean Haines

Just Draw Fineliner Art presents a collection of more than 85 beautiful blackwork images by contemporary artists from around the world. Dip-in for advice or flick through the pages for inspiration.

The Japanese word kawaii translates to "cute" and this how-to book is chock-full of super-adorable images of tacos sushi smoothies clouds rainbows cacti doodle monsters Christmas trees lipsticks teacups and more for your adoration.

In her latest book artist and illustrator Angela Nguyen starts by teaching you the essential techniques of kawaii through quick and easy exercises on the basic shapes effects and style. From there jump straight into drawing the myriad beasts small and big you can find inside the book from household pets to the exotic animals in the seas and skies.

Kawaii: How to Draw Really Cute Fantasy Creatures

This book teaches young readers what kawaii is all about and how to draw any mythical animal in an adorable style. There are clear step-by-step diagrams that are great for visual learners and make it super-easy to follow the instructions.

This exquisite book by the founders of the studio May &Berry shows you how to create beautiful messages through the combination of hand lettering and watercolour. Broken down into easy-to-follow stages you will soon learn how to use different pens and inks to produce gorgeous lettering embellished with simple yet stunningly effective watercolour motifs.

This practical book guides you gently through the materials and tools you need to get started and sets you on your hand-lettering journey with some simple exercises. There are then ten pretty step-by-step projects for you to try after which you'll be confidently creating your own handwritten artworks that you can display on your wall send as notecards to loved ones or use to decorate your journals and scrapbooks.

At the back of the book there is a treasure trove of gorgeous botanical-style motifs and borders along with four delightful alphabets created by the authors in a variety of scripts - perfect for gently encouraging beginners and inspiring more experienced hand-lettering artists to play with new designs and styles. This is followed by six handy worksheets on which to practise your letter-writing technique.

You'll soon find that hand lettering with watercolour is quick and fun to learn and a wonderful skill that will bring you joy for many years to come.

Authors: Sue Hiepler &Yasmin Reddig

Mind Melt: Extreme Art Mazes to Color and Confound Extreme Art Mazes to Color and Confound features 25 colorful brain-stimulating mazes to solve as well as black-and-white versions to colour.

Oil Painters Bible - Marylin Scott Oil paint is such a responsive and versatile medium that no two painters need use it in exactly the same way and since its invention in Renaissance times it has never lost its popularity with artists. Amateurs also find it appealing both because it is enjoyable to use and because mistakes can be so easily rectified. This compact book explains all the materials techniques and different approaches to painting with oils. Step-by-step sequences show how to paint a range of themes from still life to portraits and landscapes with advice on more difficult subjects. There are also suggestions for presenting your finished paintings and how to go about getting your work seen and exhibited. Author: Marylin Scott

Painting Perspective Depth and Distance in Watercolour Tips &Techniques for creating depth and distance in watercolour painting. Author: Geoff Kersey