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Incredible Comics with Tom Nguyen: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Kick-Ass Comic Art
Kick-start your comic book career!In the comic book industry, cookie-cutter artists just don't cut it. In this book, professional comic book artist Tom Nguyen shows you how to make your work stand out from the masses: Populate your world with convincing heroes, villains and citizens ... Pump-up the drama with perspective, page design and other powerful techniques ... And, ultimately, put it all together to tell kick-ass, action-packed stories! You'll learn how to: - draw pumped-up dudes and hot babes, with muscles and curves in all the right places.
- dress `em in killer costumes and everyday outfits, complete with hairstyles and accessories.
- round out your cast with punks, grandmas, kids, melon heads and other supporting characters.
- draw blood-curdling sneers, dagger eyes, and other expressive facial features.
- use gesture sketches to establish pose and action.
- get creative with poses, camera angles, perspective, and page layout for maximum drama and efficient storytelling.
- follow the step-by-step process of bringing two scripts to life, from thumbnails to finished inking tips.
Illustrated with dos, don'ts, and tons of step-by-step instruction, this is a real-world guide to the skills you need to make it as a comic book artist. Armed with these inside secrets and tricks-of-the-trade, you'll be more than just another good artist, but a bona fide, super-hero-style storyteller!.
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The PITA Principle: How to Work With (and Avoid Becoming) a Pain in the Ass
Through entertaining scenarios and real-life situations, The PITA Principle describes the different kinds of PITAs (Pain in the Ass) at work and how to cope with each. Readers are provided with a positive scenario for each type of PITA, showcasing techniques for working with this personality type. Readers then engage in a self-evaluation process, identifying their own PITA tendencies. Finally, the authors identify ways to improve upon various self-identified PITA characteristics through a cognitive-behavioral approach to change..
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Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain’s indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to the route and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson, Moore and his four-legged companion travel the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees, to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela which houses the remains of Spain’s patron saint, St. James.
Over sun-scorched highways, precipitous bridges, dirt paths shaded by leafy trees, and vineyards occasionally lashed by downpours, Moore and Shinto pass through some of northern Spain’s oldest towns and cities in colorful company. Clearly more interested in Shinto than in Moore, their fellow walkers are an assortment of devout Christian pilgrims, New Age--spirituality seekers aspiring to be the next Shirley Maclaine, Baby Boomers contemplating middle age, and John Q Public just out for a cheap, boozy sun-drenched outdoor holiday.
As Moore pushes, pulls, wheedles, cajoles, and threatens Shinto across Spain, the duo overnights in the bedrooms, dormitories, and---for Shinto---grassy fields of northern Spain. Shinto, a donkey with a finely honed talent for relieving himself at the most inopportune moments, has better luck in the search for his next meal than Moore does in finding his inner pilgrim. Undaunted, however, Man and Beast finally arrive at the cathedral and a successful end to their journey. For readers who delighted in his earlier books, Travels With my Donkey is the next hilarious chapter in the travels of Tim Moore, a book that keeps the bones of St. James rattling to this day.
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Dr. Rock's Kick Ass Therapy: What's Wrong With You People?
Have you read Who Moved My Cheese and Tuesday's With Morrie and still feel like crap? If so, you may be in need of some Kick Ass Therapy Dr. Rock takes a break from his wildly successful radio show to put his hilarious pop psychology rantings in writing The good doctor shares his views on women, men, family, and the workplace, all in the hopes of making you feel better with a good belly laugh. If you've ever asked "what the hell is wrong with people?", then this is the book for you!.
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