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Fashion Unfolding showcases the intersection of design, illustration, and DIY Fashion With over 500 full color images depicting excellent examples of the fresh, edgy designs from some of the world s most exciting emerging talents. Fashion Unfolding is an indispensable source of inspiration for those who seek to invent the fashions of tomorrow and influence contemporary aesthetic. Character driven art, screen printing techniques and pixilated forms are bleeding into the fashion mainstream in the form of innovative knitted garments, stunning t-shirts, printed fabrics, colorful shoes, hand made accessories, and ever more compelling marketing collateral and packaging. Fashion Unfolding documents this movement, featuring only the most radical, current and innovative designers and fashion houses, including Deanne Cheuk Design, Plazm Media, Kustaa Saksi (Unit CMA), and HMKM-- each helps to reveal the underlying power of graphics in fashion design, and how these aesthetics affect our fashion sense and influence our purchases..
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Both professional and student illustrators of action and fantasy art can take the guesswork out of rendering extreme anatomy and dynamic action poses with help from this valuable reference source. It presents more than 600 detailed color photos of live models, and represents a wide range of physiques, postures, and poses that can be incorporated in fantasy scenarios. The book’s accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book’s posed images, allowing illustrators to swipe them directly and paste them into their own computer art projects. The book also instructs on rendering realistic effects to the illustrated textures of flesh, hair, clothing, and metal objects, as well as advice on adding highlights, backlights, and shadows. Here is a valuable reference source that belongs in every illustrator’s personal library. All images are copyright free..
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Since the first people began to draw and paint, human figures and faces have dominated art. Through line drawings, paintings and sculpture, artists attempt to convey emotion, express spirit or simply show the physical beauty of the human form..
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This second volume of the popular series is geared towards artists who have mastered the basic techniques of tone work and want to give their manga three-dimensionality and a wide array of audacious special effects. The bonus CD-ROM contains 100 types of tone patterns favored by manga artists. This Computones series is guaranteed to expand your manga horizons..
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Artists have always been drawn to the sea as it offers unparalleled opportunity. One can spend a lifetime not only enjoying the subject, but also trying to understand how to paint it. The colors that we perceive are derived from the lighting, shadows and whatever lies beneath the surface. Compounding the situation is the ever changing, ever moving nature of water. If we follow a few basic rules, which will apply in general to the nature of water, we will avoid mistakes and learn by observation.

In this fully illustrated pocket size book we cover all types of water, still, rivers, coastal, rushing, breaking waves, reflections, morning, sunsets. From the sea to a river or a puddle, mix the colors you need to depict water in all its moods, quickly and accurately.

In order to obtain the most from this and other titles in the 'Color Notes' series, it is strongly recommended that it should be used in conjunction with the Color Mixing Swatch book, an instant guide to 2,460 mixed hues from only 12 colors.
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