Bob Berry

Provides instructions for drawing characters, animals, mythical creatures, and places, including pirates, castles, and leviathans.

Step-by-step Instructions for Drawing Ancient Characters, Civilizations, Creatures, and More!

Learn to Draw Pirates, Vikings & Ancient Civilizations

For KC Watson, the first day of school was always unusual. This was especially true of her first day of freshman year at Richelieu High School. KC was a girl who could never resist a good mystery - and Penelope Dredalus, a new student at Richelieu High School, was exactly that. Penelope was quiet and mysterious. As KC begins to unravel the truth about Penelope, she realizes there is a bigger mystery to be solved as strange and frightening things start to happen at Richelieu High. KC and Penelope form a reluctant partnership as they investigate unexplained sounds and bizaare apparitions and a tragic accident that occurred in the school decades ago. Can two teenage girls stand against a powerful entity that is poised to take its vengeance out against the entire school?

A Penny Dreadful Investigation

A Haunting at Richelieu High

Ian Falconer

Art Mawhinney

Join Olivia in page after page of Look and Find fun games.

Olivia

Jim Campbell

Maury Aaseng

Dana Muise

Joe Oesterle

Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines. Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw basic cartoon characters, superheroes, villains, and more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you’ll learn to draw action scenes, set up panels, add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book word treatments. With approachable exercises and projects to guide you, The Art of Comic Book Drawing allows beginning artists to create their own comic books, step by step. This helpful guide also includes practice pages to put your newfound skills to immediate use.

More than 100 drawing and illustration techniques for rendering comic book characters and storyboards

The Art of Comic Book Drawing

Wham! Pow! Bam! Kaboom! Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines. Veteran comic book artists teach you to draw basic cartoon characters, superheroes, villains, and more using simple, step-by-step drawing lessons. Once you get the hang of illustrating your favorite characters, you’ll learn to draw action scenes, set up panels, add speech bubbles, and even learn the basics of cartoon and comic book word treatments. With approachable exercises and projects to guide you, The Art of Comic Book Drawing allows beginning artists to create their own comic books, step by step. This helpful guide also includes easy-to-use comic book templates so you can put your newfound skills to immediate use.

Jeannie Lee

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing and digitally illustrating twenty-one manga and comic book character projects, and includes additional advice, tips, and tricks for developing and rendering manga and comic book characters.

Discover Techniques for Drawing & Digitally Illustrating Manga & Graphic-novel Characters

The Art of Drawing Manga & Comic Book Characters

How to Draw Magical, Monstrous & Mythological Creatures is for artistic tweens who dream about the magical, mystical, and darker side of things. One part nightmare, one part imagination, and one part legend, the creatures featured in this book are the ultimate bad guys—the subjects of myths and tales told for thousands of years. While other people may not believe in vampires, elves or werewolves, there's just something about these strange creatures that rings true. Starting with an introduction to various drawing tools and techniques, the goth-inspired title in the Walter Foster Studio series will have enthusiastic artists learning to draw their favorite creatures and beasts across three categories: Magical Characters Mythological Creatures Monsters. Join renowned illustrator and designer Bob Berry as he guides you through an illustrated labyrinth of monstrous, magical, and mythological characters. Along the way, you'll learn to draw everything you see—from a fire-breathing, treasure-guarding dragon to a scythe-gripping Grim Reaper, snake-haired Medusa, and mystical sorceress. Aspiring fantasy artists will find inspiration on every page. Additionally, character history, folklore, legends, fun facts, and trivia-driven sidebars add to this fantastic experience.

Discover the magic of drawing more than 20 legendary folklore, fantasy, and horror characters

How to Draw Magical, Monstrous & Mythological Creatures

Cynthia Knox

Meredith Dillman

Michael Dobrzycki

Kythera of Anevern

Featuring drawing lessons, step-by-step projects, and open practice pages, The Little Book of Drawing Dragons & Fantasy Characters teaches beginning artists how to draw dragons, fairies, mythological beasts, and more. Step-by-step projects, creative exercises, interactive prompts, and helpful tips and techniques bring this popular drawing subject to life and invite creativity and personalization. Drawing techniques, such as value, shading, and creating texture and perspective, are included to help artists of all skill levels learn to draw accurately. Learn to draw fur, scales, wings, tails, and how to put them all together to create your own unique fantasy characters and artwork. More than 15 step-by-step projects include: Western Dragon Eastern Dragon Water Dragon Hydra Centaur Fairy Minotaur Griffin Unicorn And more! In the popular, established The Little Book of... series from Walter Foster Publishing, artists and art hobbyists alike delight in learning a variety of fun, approachable, relevant, and interesting art topics in a portable format boasting a fresh, contemporary, and interactive design. Open practice pages, creative exercises, and art prompts encourage interactivity for immediate results while teaching beginners the fundamentals of the featured medium in a fun, engaging way.

Helen M. Sharp

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