Inspired by modern masters, Use This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing is a playful introduction to contemporary drawing styles, techniques and ideas.

This sketchbook features thought-provoking prompts and eye-popping illustrations to sharpen your skills and unlock the outer limits of your imagination.

Far from a free-for-all of random exercises, this book is divided into sections covering essential aspects of drawing such as tone, composition and humour. Accessible, fun and informative, U...

The Street Art Manual is the world's first book to combine practical advice and tactical guidance for creating 11 forms of street art in public space around the world. Every type of street art is covered, including graffiti, stencilling, subvertising, large scale murals, wheat pasting, urban projections, aerial art, yarn bombing, guerrilla theatre, banner drops and projectiles.

Each technique is illustrated with step-by-step drawings and straight forward advice about what you need and how to...

From rural Japan to international icon - Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art.

Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame.

Become a super awesome artist with this fantastic new book. Using real examples of art for inspiration, this great book features 20 exciting art challenges to help you create your own masterpieces. Channel the artistic genius within and you’ll be painting like Pollock, doodling like Duchamp and creating like Kahlo in no time!

A beautifully history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to Harry Potter.

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...

Inspirational quotes and sketches from Van Gogh on the restorative power of nature.

The complete manga, anime and video game "art school" course for beginners!

The Complete Guide to Drawing Manga & Anime offers a structured 13-week lesson plan that is typically found in professional drawing classes. With 65 detailed lessons arranged into 13 weekly topics, it's simple to learn the essentials and then progress to higher levels. You can create your own personalized learning experience as the structured lessons can be followed in sequence on a strict daily schedule or as an easy...

Wie können Klima, Energiesicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit und urbanes Leben in ein sich unterstützendes Miteinander gebracht werden? Dieser Frage gehen die Land Art Generator Initiative und die Bundesgartenschau 2023 Mannheim gemeinsam nach und präsentieren die futuristischen Resultate des internationalen Designwettbewerbs. Zu sehen ist unsere postkarbone Zukunft und wie der Stadtpark des 21. Jahrhunderts aussehen sollte.Die Welt stellt sich den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels. Riesige neue I...

Neben Albrecht Dürer gelten Hans Holbein d. Ä. und Hans Burgkmair als Wegbereiter der Renaissancemalerei im Norden. Wichtiges Zentrum dieser künstlerischen Blütezeit war die wohlhabende Reichs- und Handelsstadt Augsburg. Anhand hochkarätiger Werke bietet der Band einen umfassenden Einblick in den epochalen Umbruch vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.Augsburg wurde früh von der humanistischen Kultur Italiens beeinflusst. Aufgrund der Kunstsinnigkeit international agierender Handelshäuser, wie d...