Usborne Art Ideas
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This title presents two new editions of these innovative books, each brimming with easy ideas for drawing faces and animals. It contains simple, step-by-step instructions that show how to create portraits, caricatures and animals, using pencils, pens, pastels and paints. It features quick links that link to websites with handy practical tips, examples of faces and animals by real artists and interactive art activities.
A handbook for budding cartoonists of all ages. The step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to produce cartoons ranging from simple animals and people to superheroes and comic strips. Internet links are given to selected Web sites which provide more information on famous cartoonists and techniques. The Usborne Web site contains free images to download and use in conjunction with this volume, including outlines for trickier cartoons and guidelines for simple animation.
Usborne Art Ideas Big Book of Things to Draw
by Fiona Watt, Anna Milbourne, and Rosie Dickens
Published 1 June 2010
A step-by-step guide to art, covering easy painting, drawing, printing and collage techniques. The text has been organized into project-based chapters to enable budding artists to master a single technique at a time, such as sponge painting, oil pastels, continuous line drawings and collage.
This book helps children to explore the uses of materials including chalk, paint and pencil through a number of different, imaginative projects including ink beetles, deep-sea fish, lemon juice frogs and the creation of a Venetian street. These original projects should be of value to art teachers and experienced artists looking for inspiration as well as aspiring artists who should gain in confidence as they progress through the book.