Plato the complete works

Plato the complete works Compiled by Dr Mohamed Elwany, Translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Carrie Stuart Parks & Rick Parks - Secrets to Realistic Drawing

Reaping the joys of drawing doesn't have to be a long and painful process. With Secrets to Realistic Drawing, even complete beginners can get great results fast. It's easy to create lifelike sketches in no time.
The authors' infectious, you-can-do-it attitude is sure to make budding artists feel like they've finally found a true cheerleader for their creative dreams!

Byzantine Pilgrimage Art by Gary Vikan

Brynmawr.edu had given a very thorough review, ranging from introducing the author of Gary Vikan to review per chapter, they reviewed that "Vikan's book is lavishly produced, especially the beautiful illustrations. The update and expansion of his 1982 essay is very welcome and will serve as a first orientation for all those studying the Byzantine pilgrimage as represented by various types of artefacts. The book is a good read for everybody interested in the Byzantine period; it will certainly attract more attention to the fascinating world of belief, ritual, and life in Byzantine times. Technical terms and Greek words (always given in Latin script) are explained or translated into English. Scholars will find most helpful the depth and accuracy of the information provided so that they can rely on this overall depiction of “Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art” and use it as a starting point for their own special studies. It must not be forgotten that Vikan himself has published a large number of such specialized treatments of topics and objects a selection of which can be found in his bibliography, to which the specialist is referred for more in-depth information."

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Carol Belanger Grafton - Dover - Ancient and Medieval Arms and Armor

This book is compiled with a collection of very detailed images of defense systems and weaponry in the 19th century, such as suits of armor, chain mail, swords, halberds, spears, pikes, lances, crossbows, axes, daggers, helmets, shields, knives, small arms, and a host of other implements, along with scenes of battle, siege, jousts, soldiers, horses, and more. This very interesting and important for someone who usually create character or illustration.

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Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Anatomy (Revised and Expanded)

Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy(revised and expanded) is a wonderful introductory and intermediate course to drawing humans. In its strict technical sense, the book covers five aspects: proportions of the human body, anatomical details, the surface (light planes), foreshortening, and movement. The drawing style is powerful, dynamic, perhaps more often found in action-hero comics and computer games than in traditional figure drawing. The book also covers some of the philosophy and evolution of drawing. The writing style is perhaps the book's negative side; it is terse and sometimes obscure. Overall, though, a great read for wannabe artists.

Islamic art and culture: a resource for teachers

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Islamic art and culture: a resource for teachers, This packet was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Palace
and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum. It has been
supplemented with objects not in the exhibition.

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Brian Fairrington - For Dummies, Drawing Cartoons and Comics

As.Wiley has reviewed this book that "An original American art form, comics thrill millions of people across the globe." Drawing Cartoons & Comics For Dummies is a one-stop reference for Creating and marketing original cartoons and comics While some books tend to focus on specific characters or themes, this thorough guide focuses instead on helping aspiring artists master the basic building blocks of cartoons and comics, revealing step by step how to create everything from wisecracking bunnies To souped-up super villains It also explores lettering and coloring, and offers expert marketing advice."
But after a quick look at this book, it may be a bit off the mark. Because in this book very little explains about how to draw comics and cartoons. Only explanations about comic and cartoon elements such as text selection, text balloons and others, but not how to draw comics and cartoons. The rest of this book explains how to build a career as a cartoonist and comic artist, and about his own cartoon and comic business.

how to draw anime for beginner by Le Trung

Le Trung / Muto Anime presents the book How to draw anime for beginner, in which there are steps to create a male, female and child figure. Little is explained about the proportion of body parts that are drawn. In the head, the compilers begin to explain the fundamental differences in drawing human anatomy and anime. Also about facial expression in detail. I think it's interesting we are invited to learn together and readers are led in that direction.

Brian Edwards - Understanding Architecture Through Drawing

In this book Brian Edwards explains that drawing hand in the field of architects is needed to analyze and get to know the building. In this second edition of the book is also equipped with history and archeology. The book is full of illustrations and we can see that hand drawing is still important to do as a tool of creativity and a keen understanding of building. but of course the construction drawing must be learned skillfully. If not how will the results later?

art power by Boris Groys

Mitpress.mit.edu explains a little outline contained in Art Power's book. In that review  he explain that "Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics as it once was in the arena of cold war politics." Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly A powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiat of inclusion and exclusion In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways-as a commodity and As a tool of political propaganda In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function.

Arguing for the inclusion of politically motivated art in contemporary art discourse, Groys considers art produced under totalitarianism, Socialism, and post-Communism. He also considers today's mainstream Western art-which he finds behaving more and more according to the norms of ideological propaganda: produced and exhibited for the masses at international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Contemporary art, Groys argues, demonstrates its power by appropriating the iconoclastic gestures directed against itself-by positioning itself simultaneously as an image and as a critique of the image. In Art Power, Groys examines this fundamental appropriation that produces the paradoxical object of the modern artwork ".

A portrait of the Visual arts "Meeting the Challeges of a New Era"

Actually i hesitate to give a little information about this book, but goodreads.com has helped a bit. He said that "Providing information about developments in the visual arts world, this book promotes the analysis of the sector, describing the characteristics of visual arts consumers (collectors and appreciators), artists, finances, and organizations." It also tells a story of rapid, Even seismic change, systemic imbalances, and dislocation. "
If such happens then the art world is so immense, not only drawing and display.
It's important to read and I have to read it too.

scan book Arthur L. Guptill - Sketching and Rendering in Pencil

You are lucky to have seen or maybe have downloaded this book, considering this book is somewhat rare and very familiar in the faculty of arts and architects. Pencil and ink media spelled out the cheapest image media but Arthur L Guptill is not so. He describes these two media in great detail so as to explain them requires 4 to 5 pages without illustration.
It is certain that this book is intended for artists or someone who wants to improve their knowledge of drawing using ink and pencil

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scan Arthur Wesley Dow "Composition"

First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition has probably influenced more Americans than any other text to think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. While Dow is known as the mentor of Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber, his legacy as a proponent of modern art has suffered undeserved neglect by recent artists and art historians.

In Composition Dow develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colors, and dark and light patterns. Greatly influenced by Japanese art, he expounds a theory of "flat" formal equilibrium as an essential component of telling pictorial creation. Generations of teachers and their public school pupils learned from Dow's orientalism and adopted basic postimpressionist principles without even knowing the term. The reappearance of Dow's practical, well-illustrated guide, enhanced by Joseph Masheck's discussion of its historical ramifications, is an important event for all concerned with the visual arts and the intellectual antecedents of American modernism.(university of california press)

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Anita Giddings and Sherry Stone Clifton - For Dummies, Oil Painting

Anita Giddings and Sherry Stone Clifton Has written his book very interestingly. This book is written in steps not just to prepare tools painting tools alone but also mentally prepared. In the next session on ingredients until the calculation of the object to be painted.
Like other dummies themed books. Inside it is accompanied by signs which are important or not important, necessary and not. The reader is led to understand on the author's understanding.
That's what's interesting from dummies books.

scan Successfully Drawing by Andrew Looming

The book doesn't cover everything, or at least topics I would expect from a drawing book. What's missing are topics such as composition, contour drawings, colours, drawing portraits (dealt in his other books) and drawing techniques like hatching, layering tones, etc. It doesn't cover drawing by eye which deals with proportion, although it is mentioned briefly which can be overlooked easily.

scan fun with a pencil by Andrew Loomis

Fun With A Pencil is a great choice for artists looking to get into cartooning and even animation.Author Andrew Loomis boils everything down to the basics to teach artists the fundamentals of constructing the face.The book gives you many lessons featuring different expressions and angles to make you get the basics.

This is very interesting, he compiled this book as if to learn about the face and anatomy cartoons are funny and fun. but from here we can learn and see the pencil very strong character. And then in the next section he explains that pencils are a tool for building a shape, or sketch. and others.

Interesting to read and a material comparison how to treat pencils.

Drawing cutting edge anatomy.

This book is great for young artists who specialize in comic characters. Christopher Hart has put it very well out of every step. anatomical proportions of course adapted to the comic book character. This book is well worth reading both as a reference style image as well as a workout buddy.

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scan Figure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

The well-crafted book Andrew Loomis deserves to be read by young artists to deepen their analysis on the way anatomical images are. The classic polish that is presented is interesting to follow, and the text arrangement that divides the two pages vertically makes our eyes less tired to read the instructions.

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Squid Robot Boss Enemy

Now I will introduce an asset game product that is on www.graphicriver.net which I think is interesting. The name of the product is "Squid Robot Boss Enemy" from the title we know that the game asset is the king of crooks for the end of the stage.
Ok now we see. The file is created using a soft vector, and to animate it using Spriter pro. Animations that have been created in this bundle include:
Squid: fly
Squid: fly end
Squid: idle
Squid: idle to fly
Squid: gatling gun ready
Squid: gatling gun shoot
Squid: gatling gun shoot FX
Squid: gatling gun end
Squid: rocket ready
Squid: rocket shoot
Squid: rocket shoot FX
Squid: rocket end
Squid: dead start
Squid: dead

Looking at this product I so ask, what is this character for? But I can imagine the sincerity of the creator in making this character.

Actually if we examine more deeply, the creator wants freedom when making this character because if he makes the main character he will be stuck with what kind of game he will make. But with him making his main enemy we can imagine him, guess what kind of game we will use for this character.

Manga for dummies

This book is very useful for those who want and are learning to make manga comics or just happy to draw a character manga.

Kensuke Okabayashi has successfully compiled this book in a straightforward and readable way. So that not only the structure of the picture is explained but the history of the manga is also explained. Also the difference is the difference between western comics and manga.

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scan Andrew Loomis - Eye Of The Painter

The eye with which a painter looks on life must be more keen, more directed, more disciplined than the eye of the general observer. In the text by the author of Fun With a Pencil, the author analyzes the painter's vision from the point of view of line, color, design and style, form and medium. Helpful both to the groping painter and to the uninitiated but interested audience of painting. This text is illustrated in color and black and white, and is recommended to those who are uninstructed but interested in increasing their sensitivity to graphic expression.

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How to Draw Comic by John Byrne

This book is very interesting because we are invited to learn to make comics with comic story style so that we can digest the contents of the lesson. This 32-page comic is so complete that John Byrne presents stage-by-step comic production processes and what a comic artist needs, drawing comic anatomy, story telling, and so on.

I think this book is worth reading for anyone who wants to be a comic artist.
But to deepen the knowledge of comics, this book is still on the surface only.

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E- book Drawing the Head and Hands

This 154 page book compiled Andrew Loomis specifically to learn how to draw hands and face.
We can follow the example and given instructions on structure and order or streak to establish face and advance.
I think Andrew Looming very careful to explain how to draw the human anatomy.
Of course this book is very useful for someone who is learning to draw!

Happy practice!
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Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis

There are seven chapters in the book covering the line, tone, colour, telling the story, creating ideas, fields of illustration and experiment and study. The first few chapters explain more on the drawing techniques while the later chapters are more on visualising and creating art for display ads.

This isn't a draw-with-me type of book. You should have basic drawing skills, and using the drawing tips and insights provided, you can understand what makes a good drawing and improve yourself. Commentary is lengthy but clear. The illustrated examples are beautiful and even if some of them are dated, the techniques still remain as relevant today.

It's a great book for all who want to get better at drawing.

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Drawing Dynamic Hands

Drawing Dynamic Hands is a really good book on drawing hands. It explains almost everything you need from the form, structures, proportions, anatomical landmarks, functions to foreshortening. The illustrated examples are plentiful with hands in almost every humanly possible pose. There are so many to practice from. 

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