mardi 26 août 2008
ARRÊT DU BLOG...
Plus le temps de mettre à jour régulièrement ce blog, c'est pourquoi il s'arrête... mais continue sur MON BLOG PRINCIPAL : Illustration et Cie... où vous trouverez des livres pour les illustrateurs freelance et artistes en général, découvrirez de talentueuses illustratrices (quelques illustrateurs parfois), de plein de sites liés à l'illustration, l'animation et au graphisme. Bonne lecture.
lundi 11 août 2008
How to Draw Peanuts
Découvrez le livre de 32 pages "How to Draw Peanuts" de Charles M. Schulz, le "papa" des Peanuts, paru en février 2004. Pour apprendre à dessiner les Peanuts, petits personnages rigolos et sympathiques qui ont, sans doute, bercé votre enfance.
In the best-selling tradition of "How To Draw...", this new title in one of Troll's most popular series teaches kids how to draw all their favorite Peanuts characters, including Charlie Brown, Snnopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, Sally, and more!
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
In the best-selling tradition of "How To Draw...", this new title in one of Troll's most popular series teaches kids how to draw all their favorite Peanuts characters, including Charlie Brown, Snnopy, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, Sally, and more!
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
vendredi 25 juillet 2008
Living the Creative Life
Découvrez le livre de 144 pages "Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists", de Rice Freeman-Zachery, publié en août 2007.
If you could ask your favorite artist or crafter only one question, chances are you'd ask about creativity: Where do your ideas come from? How did you get started? What are your tricks for overcoming blocks? In "Living the Creative Life", author Rice Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums--from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage. Creativity is different for everyone, and these artists share their insights on the muse (if you believe in her), keeping a sketchbook (or not), and prioritizing your art, whether you aspire to create solely for your own pleasure or to become a full-time artist.
• Try your hand at creative jumpstarts straight from the pros.
• Glimpse the artists' innermost thoughts and works in progress as you peruse pages from their journals and notebooks.
• Share textile artist Sas Colby's triumph over creative block during an exotic art retreat.
• Learn how internationally acclaimed artist James Michael Starr uses experience from his former "day job" to fuel his creation today.
• Explore the work of Michael deMeng, Claudine Hellmuth, Melissa Zink and the other artists right alongside their insights.
No crafter or artist should live the creative life without "Living the Creative Life!" The inspiration is contagious.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
If you could ask your favorite artist or crafter only one question, chances are you'd ask about creativity: Where do your ideas come from? How did you get started? What are your tricks for overcoming blocks? In "Living the Creative Life", author Rice Freeman-Zachery has compiled answers to these questions and more from 15 successful artists in a variety of mediums--from assemblage to fiber arts, beading to mixed-media collage. Creativity is different for everyone, and these artists share their insights on the muse (if you believe in her), keeping a sketchbook (or not), and prioritizing your art, whether you aspire to create solely for your own pleasure or to become a full-time artist.
• Try your hand at creative jumpstarts straight from the pros.
• Glimpse the artists' innermost thoughts and works in progress as you peruse pages from their journals and notebooks.
• Share textile artist Sas Colby's triumph over creative block during an exotic art retreat.
• Learn how internationally acclaimed artist James Michael Starr uses experience from his former "day job" to fuel his creation today.
• Explore the work of Michael deMeng, Claudine Hellmuth, Melissa Zink and the other artists right alongside their insights.
No crafter or artist should live the creative life without "Living the Creative Life!" The inspiration is contagious.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
mardi 17 juin 2008
Learn to Draw Dragons...
Découvrez le livre de 32 pages "Learn to Draw Dragons Step by Step" de Michael Dobrzycki, paru en août 2007.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
vendredi 30 mai 2008
Illustration Now - 2009 Calendar
Découvrez le calendrier pour l'année 2009, de 640 pages, "Illustration Now 2009 Calendar", de Taschen (en anglais, français et allemand).
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
samedi 19 avril 2008
Digital Manga Workshop
Découvrez le livre de 192 pages "Digital Manga Workshop" [An Artist's Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer] de Jared Hodges et Lindsay Cibos, paru en juillet 2005.
The unique Japanese cartoon style known as manga, with its exaggerated stylistic characters and vivid colors, has caught the attention of America. Now, with the advent of digital tools like Photoshop and Painter, manga artists have discovered new ways of bringing their artwork to life and onto the computer -- with astounding results! This complete guide presents a wealth of information by exploring the digital possibilities of creating manga-style artwork. It details the entire process, from initial rough sketches, to the finished color image, with in-depth instructions and illustrations that demonstrate the intricacies of each technique. It also deals with a variety of inking and coloring styles.revealing the secrets of how to achieve smooth, highly detailed line art directly on screen, how to recreate the appearance of traditional animation with cel-art techniques, and how to achieve a soft, dreamy, or traditional look with airbrush, watercolor, and painting tools. It also explains how custom backgrounds, special effects, and the use of filters can add the finishing touches that exemplify professional results.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
The unique Japanese cartoon style known as manga, with its exaggerated stylistic characters and vivid colors, has caught the attention of America. Now, with the advent of digital tools like Photoshop and Painter, manga artists have discovered new ways of bringing their artwork to life and onto the computer -- with astounding results! This complete guide presents a wealth of information by exploring the digital possibilities of creating manga-style artwork. It details the entire process, from initial rough sketches, to the finished color image, with in-depth instructions and illustrations that demonstrate the intricacies of each technique. It also deals with a variety of inking and coloring styles.revealing the secrets of how to achieve smooth, highly detailed line art directly on screen, how to recreate the appearance of traditional animation with cel-art techniques, and how to achieve a soft, dreamy, or traditional look with airbrush, watercolor, and painting tools. It also explains how custom backgrounds, special effects, and the use of filters can add the finishing touches that exemplify professional results.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
samedi 12 avril 2008
Painting Acrylic Flowers...
Découvrez le livre de 128 pages "Painting Acrylic Flowers, A-Z: An Illustrated Directory of Techniques for Painting 40 Popular Flowers" de Lexi Sundell, paru fin janvier 2008. La couverture du livre vous montre la très jolie illustration d'une fleur amaryllis blanche!!
Flowers continue to be one of the most popular subjects among North Light readers, especially the beginner/intermediate reader. Acrylic is the only medium that is gaining floor space in the art stores-perfect for readers looking to work with acrylic paints in a more traditional approach. This lovely book is an indispensable guide for acrylic flower artists, revealing how to paint 50 of the most popular floral subjects, from agapanthus to zinnia, with plant-specific instructions for capturing the unique beauty of each species. All the techniques are clearly explained and demonstrated, from analyzing the shape and structure of the flowers to mixing and blending rich, luminous colors, laying washes, creating textured effects and adding highlights. Each featured flower includes information about its distinguishing characteristics, detailed step-by-step instructions, a complete color palette, mini demonstrations showing special techniques, and a stunning full-color image of a finished painting.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
Flowers continue to be one of the most popular subjects among North Light readers, especially the beginner/intermediate reader. Acrylic is the only medium that is gaining floor space in the art stores-perfect for readers looking to work with acrylic paints in a more traditional approach. This lovely book is an indispensable guide for acrylic flower artists, revealing how to paint 50 of the most popular floral subjects, from agapanthus to zinnia, with plant-specific instructions for capturing the unique beauty of each species. All the techniques are clearly explained and demonstrated, from analyzing the shape and structure of the flowers to mixing and blending rich, luminous colors, laying washes, creating textured effects and adding highlights. Each featured flower includes information about its distinguishing characteristics, detailed step-by-step instructions, a complete color palette, mini demonstrations showing special techniques, and a stunning full-color image of a finished painting.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
How to Grow As an Artist
Découvrez le livre de 240 pages, "How to Grow As an Artist" de Daniel Grant, qui est paru en octobre 2002.
In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries. Filled with entertaining success stories, this is one volume for the bookshelf of every artist hoping to attain satisfaction and pleasure though his or her art. Plus, dozens of well-known artists–as well as those successful on their own terms–share their own success stories and sources for artistic inspiration.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
In this definitive guide to resources, aspiring artists and serious amateurs devoted to their art will find scores of time-tested strategies to help them set up and work safely from a home studio; learn where and how to acquire appropriate art materials; develop their abilities with others as well as create art alone; explore opportunities for education in a wide variety of forms; overcome mental blocks; mat, frame, pack, and ship works of art; and much more. Artists looking to show and sell their work will find no-fail ideas for marketing, exhibiting, and entering the world of galleries. Filled with entertaining success stories, this is one volume for the bookshelf of every artist hoping to attain satisfaction and pleasure though his or her art. Plus, dozens of well-known artists–as well as those successful on their own terms–share their own success stories and sources for artistic inspiration.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
mardi 8 avril 2008
Café Salé Artbook 01
Découvrez le livre de 256 pages "CFSL.NET : Café salé artbook 01" de Collectif du forum Café Salé, paru en septembre 2007.
Depuis sa création en 2002, le site s'est imposé comme le premier portail francophone dédié à la création graphique. Dessinateurs, photographes, peintres, infographistes, sculpteurs ou coloristes : ce sont plusieurs milliers d'artistes qui se retrouvent chaque jour afin de présenter le fruit de leur travail, de partager leur expérience et de transmettre leur passion commune. Une incroyable galerie d'images et de talents, unis par une même envie de progresser, de commenter, d'encourager et d'évoluer sans cesse. Un portail, des images, du talent, des artistes, mais surtout : un esprit. Celui qui a permis aux jeunes talents de s'inspirer, de s'enrichir et d'apprendre aux côtés des artistes les plus reconnus. Plus qu'une simple galerie d'images, ce livre est un hommage, un portail : une fenêtre ouverte sur le meilleur du café salé et de l'art numérique.
Depuis sa création en 2002, le site s'est imposé comme le premier portail francophone dédié à la création graphique. Dessinateurs, photographes, peintres, infographistes, sculpteurs ou coloristes : ce sont plusieurs milliers d'artistes qui se retrouvent chaque jour afin de présenter le fruit de leur travail, de partager leur expérience et de transmettre leur passion commune. Une incroyable galerie d'images et de talents, unis par une même envie de progresser, de commenter, d'encourager et d'évoluer sans cesse. Un portail, des images, du talent, des artistes, mais surtout : un esprit. Celui qui a permis aux jeunes talents de s'inspirer, de s'enrichir et d'apprendre aux côtés des artistes les plus reconnus. Plus qu'une simple galerie d'images, ce livre est un hommage, un portail : une fenêtre ouverte sur le meilleur du café salé et de l'art numérique.
jeudi 3 avril 2008
Illustration Play
Le livre de 240 pages "Illustration Play" est paru en décembre 2007.
"Illustration Play" explores new trends in handcrafted illustration, each of which lends a welcome departure from digitally generated graphics. In a bold departure from the pixel based aesthetic, Illustration Play focuses rather on the return to experimental and unique techniques such as paper cutting, stitching, knitting, needlework, origami, patchwork and more. Thirty artists from around the globe present their distinct yet diverse perspectives on their signature styles, and the myriad skills they bring to each project, and share their resounding successes. Through interviews and photos of the studios where they find their inspiration, the artists and designers takes you on a voyeuristic journey through their personal realms and share their work from vision and imagination to creation.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
"Illustration Play" explores new trends in handcrafted illustration, each of which lends a welcome departure from digitally generated graphics. In a bold departure from the pixel based aesthetic, Illustration Play focuses rather on the return to experimental and unique techniques such as paper cutting, stitching, knitting, needlework, origami, patchwork and more. Thirty artists from around the globe present their distinct yet diverse perspectives on their signature styles, and the myriad skills they bring to each project, and share their resounding successes. Through interviews and photos of the studios where they find their inspiration, the artists and designers takes you on a voyeuristic journey through their personal realms and share their work from vision and imagination to creation.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
mercredi 19 mars 2008
L'aquarelle étape par étape
Le livre de 128 pages "L'aquarelle étape par étape" d'un collectif d'auteurs (Jane Leycester Paige, Paul Talbot-Greaves, Naomi Tydeman, David Webb) est paru en février 2007. Cet ouvrage unique destiné aux artistes en herbe propose une méthode d'apprentissage novatrice. Pour chaque étude de cas, vous trouverez la liste du matériel nécessaire, ainsi que des explications détaillées sur les techniques employées. Cette présentation claire vous permettra de créer des aquarelles délicates avec une facilité déconcertante. La lecture de cet ouvrage remarquable vous apprendra à organiser votre composition, à analyser la tonalité d'un sujet, à ajouter des rehauts, à renforcer les ombres et la lumière. Vous saurez également finaliser vos creations par l'ajout de détails. Quelle que soit votre technique préférée - du clair au foncé ou du foncé au clair, mouillé sur mouillé ou mouillé sur sec -, ce livre vous guidera dans la composition et l'exécution de magnifiques aquarelles de paysages, de portraits ou de natures mortes.
mercredi 12 mars 2008
The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2
Le livre de 336 pages "The Big book of illustration Ideas 2" de Roger Walton va paraître le 1er juin 2008.
What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and—after a while—you'd probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could simply pick up The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 flip to the section marked "Food and Still Life," and find pages and pages of illustrators who can draw all kinds of food in all kinds of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage, and so on, and so on. It's a smorgasbord of illustration ideas. In fact, within these pages are the best illustrators from all over the world, found together in one place along with all their contact information. For ease of reference, illustrators' work is cataloged by theme: People; Portraits; Food and Still Life; Buildings; Landscapes; Abstract Concepts; Diagrams; and Miscellaneous.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book
What if you need someone to draw salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it? You could go through the above processes, and—after a while—you'd probably find someone to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could simply pick up The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2 flip to the section marked "Food and Still Life," and find pages and pages of illustrators who can draw all kinds of food in all kinds of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage, and so on, and so on. It's a smorgasbord of illustration ideas. In fact, within these pages are the best illustrators from all over the world, found together in one place along with all their contact information. For ease of reference, illustrators' work is cataloged by theme: People; Portraits; Food and Still Life; Buildings; Landscapes; Abstract Concepts; Diagrams; and Miscellaneous.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book
samedi 2 février 2008
The Manual of Illustration Techniques
C'est la troisième édition de cet excellent livre de 176 pages: "The Manual of Illustration Techniques" de Catharine Slade. Véritable best-seller, les précédentes éditions sont épuisées et les livres introuvables!! C'est d'ailleurs le tout premier livre sur les techniques d'illustration que j'ai acheté, et je le consulte régulièrement comme source d'inspiration.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this execellent book.
dimanche 20 janvier 2008
Dessiner les chats
Le livre de 32 pages "Dessiner les chats" de Roberto Fabbretti est paru en mars 2007.
Amoureux de nos amis les bêtes ou artistes en herbe, qui n'a jamais souhaité savoir dessiner les animaux ? Malgré les idées reçues, il n'est pas si difficile d'apprendre seul à dessiner. Pour y parvenir, il suffit de suivre une méthode logique et rationnelle. Ce livre vous dévoile comment faire pour dessiner des chats, à partir d'une simplification liée à la connaissance du squelette comme structure de base. La construction du dessin se fait ensuite par l'association de formes géométriques. Tout le monde peut dessiner un rond, un carré, un triangle, mais personne ne soupçonne qu'en quelques coups de crayon supplémentaires cela peut rapidement se transformer en un animal des plus réussis ! Voici une méthode simple, amusante et efficace pour acquérir les règles de base du dessin et obtenir tout de suite des résultats surprenants.
Parmi les autres titres du même auteur et dans la même collection :
• Dessiner les animaux
• Dessiner les chiens
• Dessiner les chevaux
jeudi 10 janvier 2008
Painter IX Creativity
Le livre de 430 pages "Painter IX Creativity" de Jeremy Sutton, est paru en mai 2005. Il inclus un CD-Rom.Painter IX Creativity is a comprehensive creative guide to Corel's Painter IX Software. It explains the basics of setting up, understanding, customizing, and applying Painter to create original works, paintings, generating painterly animations, manipulating and transforming photographic images, and constructing evocative photo-collage. The projects include advanced techniques and creative strategies. The book gives visual artists-digital designers, multimedia artists, photographers, illustrators, animators, and graphic artists-the explanations they need in order to maximize the sophisticated, creative Painter tool.
Living in USA, please use this link to buy this book.
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