Drawing Made Easy: Dragons & Fantasy: Unleash your creative beast as you conjure up dragons, fairies, ogres, and other fantastic creatures

Learn to draw today, even if you've never drawn before! Carrie Stuart Parks and Rick Parks, FBI-trained composite artists and drawing instructors, have taught thousands of people of all ages and skill levels how to turn out impressive realistic drawings. Discover how to:

• Train your brain to re-create what you see through observation
• Accurately capture main shapes and important details
• Make your drawings incredibly lifelike with shading and blending
• Identify and fix the parts of a drawing that look inaccurate

From the art studios of Manga University, Japan's leading publisher of English-language educational manga, comes an all-new series of mini How to Draw Manga guides.

With this easy-to-use handbook, best-selling author Gary Greene provides you with instant access to his best tips, tricks and techniques for creating exceptionally realistic colored pencil artwork. Whether you're new to colored pencils or perfecting advanced techniques, you'll find the answers you need here in dozens of complete step-by-step demonstrations, including:

• Simple techniques for achieving amazingly realistic compositions, including layering, burnishing and underpainting
• Proven methods for working successfully with water-soluble colored pencils
• A full range of inspiring subject matter, from flowers and animals to landscapes and still-life compositions
• Tips for solving common problems, fixing mistakes and taking sharp, clear reference photos
• Expert guidance in choosing the right materials and colors, including complete color charts from all the major manufacturers

It's all here in the The Ultimate Guide to Colored Pencil-the solutions and secrets you need for your own colored pencil success!

This is the book that can teach anyone to draw (yes, even you!)

If you're not getting the kind of true-to-life results you want in your drawings (or if you can't even draw a straight line), Carrie and Rick Parks can help. As award-winning teachers, they have a proven game plan for helping artists of all levels overcome common problems and see immediate improvement in their work. As professional composite artists, they know the tricks and tools for achieving incredibly lifelike results. In this friendly, foolproof guide to drawing, they share it all:

• Easy-to-master techniques for achieving a convincing sense of depth
• How to draw challenging textures like metal and fur
• Putting personality into your portraits
• 40+ step-by-step demonstrations featuring a variety of people, animals and nature

Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from your imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn the drawing basics. Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, it gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. This revised edition of one of the most successful For Dummies guides includes

• Additional step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, still life, and more
• Coverage of effects, composition, and perspective
• How-to art projects that show you how to create your drawings from simple geometric shapes to finished artwork

Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise by Charles Maginnis, Includes beautiful illustrations from the original book. Easy to use table of contents take you right to the chapter and verse you are looking for

CHAPTER I.—Style in Pen Drawing
CHAPTER II.—Materials
CHAPTER III.—Technique
CHAPTER IV.—Values
CHAPTER V.—Practical Problems
CHAPTER VI.—Architectural Drawing
CHAPTER VII.—Decorative Drawing