An easy introduction to the enjoyable art of watercolor sketching!

A Beginner's Guide to Watercolor Painting is the perfect book for anyone who wants to experience the spontaneity of watercolor sketching with a water brush pen—a rewarding hobby that enables you to paint anytime, anywhere with very simple materials. The beginner-friendly lessons in this book contain all the information you need—detailed tips and instructions along with step-by-step photos to walk you through the process of painting everything from still life to portraits and landscapes.

Limitation breeds creativity, and consistency breeds mastery.

When you look at a blank sheet of sketchbook paper, it's immediately exciting, it is the embodiment of endless possibility, of creative freedom-but it can't be helped, that daunting feeling of what to draw next always creeps up in the form of the dreaded 'Art Block', or you may just end up doodling subjects and characters that are within your comfort zone-in fact, hindering your creative and artistic growth.

Through creating purposeful art with a prompt, you are pushed to create within certain boundaries (A particular character, a storyline, a concept, a timeframe), you can learn to think about these limitations in different ways that will force you to come up with alternative solutions, different techniques, experimental designs, new drawing styles, or just thinking in a different way to rapidly push your art to the next level.

With Logos that Last, learn key concepts and transformational techniques for creating iconic visual branding.

Data has become the most powerful tool in business today, and telling its story effectively is critical. Yet one of the best communicators—color—is the most neglected tool in data visualization. With this book, DATAcated founder Kate Strachnyi provides the ultimate guide to the correct use of color for representing data in graphs, charts, tables, and infographics.

Ideal for data and business analysts, data scientists, and others who design infographics and data visualizations, this practical resource explores color tips and tricks, including the theories behind them and why they work the way they do. ColorWise covers the psychology, history, and culture of many different colors. This book is also a useful teaching tool for learning about proper use of color for data storytelling techniques and dashboarding.

The design bar is at an all-time high for those brave enough to participate in the industry. Today’s designers must be clear on all the steps necessary to create work that stands out in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, most design books only focus on type, color, and layout issues. The Design Matters series takes a more in-depth approach, allowing designers to learn not only how to create work that is aesthetically appealing, but also strategy-driven and smart.This compilation features the best of the Design Matters series, indispensable guides to design, in one handy volume. Design Matters focuses on developing, creating and implementing brochure designs, logo designs, packaging, and portfolios. The compendium includes all the essential information needed to execute strong designs in concert with beautiful and well-crafted examples, so that designers can successfully hit the mark every time.

Anyone can learn to draw with these easy instructions and fun practice ideas

Drawing For Dummies makes it easy to learn the basics of drawing and even master advanced techniques. With a little instruction and practice, there's no such thing as "I just can't draw." Drawing can help you relieve stress, express your emotions and creativity, communicate across cultures, improve memory, and develop and strengthen fine motor skills. This user-friendly Dummies resource will teach you how to see the world through the eyes of an artist, explore your inner visions, and open up your creativity through drawing exercises. Step-by-step illustrations and images, newly enlarged in this edition, will show you exactly how to achieve the results you want. It might be time to invest in some picture frames, because you're about to make art you can be proud of.

After Effects for Designers teaches design students, artists, and web, graphic, and interactive designers how to design, develop, and deploy motion design projects using Adobe After Effects. Author Chris Jackson balances fundamental aspects of time-based design with related techniques, and explores the principles of animation; composition and layout; visual hierarchy; typography; cinematic storytelling; 3D modelling; compositing, and more. Each chapter contains unique, step-by-step project exercises that offer timesaving practical tips and hands-on design techniques, teaching readers how to effectively use the tools at their disposal in order to conceptualize and visualize creative solutions to their own motion design work. Readers will build professional-world examples in every chapter and, as a result, learn how to both design effectively using After Effects and practically apply these skills in client-based work.
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The Autodesk Fusion 360 PCB Black Book (V 2.0.15509) is 1st edition of our series on Autodesk Fusion 360 PCB. The book is updated on Autodesk Fusion 360 Ultimate, Student V 2.0.15509. With lots of features and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as beginners in creating some of the most complex electronic design while following systematic workflow. The book follows a step-by-step methodology. In this book, we have tried to include related technical information for each PCB designing tool. We have tried to reduce the gap between educational use and industrial use of Autodesk Fusion 360 PCB. This edition of book, includes latest topics on Schematic design, 2D PCB design, 3D PCB design, PCB manufacturing, and electronic library management. The book covers almost all the information required by a learner to master Autodesk Fusion 360 PCB. Some of the salient features of this book are

Unlock Your Inner Photographer with Essential Affinity Photo 2!
Do you own Affinity Photo version 1? Then please see the first edition “Essential Affinity Photo”.
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of Affinity Photo 2 Desktop? This comprehensive and easy to follow book will teach you the core features of the powerful photo editing software, so you can start editing images like a professional in no time. With step-by-step instructions and exercises, you'll learn the core features in the correct order, so you don't waste valuable time.
Affinity Photo is one of the most powerful photo editors available today, rivalling Adobe Photoshop. And just like Photoshop, Affinity Photo can be confusing and difficult to learn. At least it can be if you don’t have the right instruction. What you mustn’t do is try to memorise its huge range of features. Instead, you need to learn a small subset of these, and importantly, in the correct order.
This comprehensive and easy to follow book explains each of the core features of Affinity Photo 2 Desktop. It does this by presenting examples and exercises for you to follow on your computer, so making the features easy to learn. Follow this book and its examples and you will soon be editing images as though you have been using the software for years.

You can start designing colorful Magazines and Books using Adobe InDesign within an Hour of Reading this Guide.

The InDesign software has been the primary tool designers use to create publishable documents for a long time. If you are thinking of starting a career in Indesign, it is probably much easier than you might have imagined it. Once you know the functions of the various controls, you can create any publishable document you can think of. In this book, you'll not only learn the functions of the various tools in Indesign but how to apply them to create appealing and readable documents that work across all platforms.

Autodesk Inventor 2024: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook has been designed for instructor-led courses as well as self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers, interested in learning Autodesk Inventor, to create 3D mechanical designs. This textbook is an excellent guide for new Inventor users and a great teaching aid for classroom training. It consists of 14 chapters and a total of 790 pages covering major environments of Autodesk Inventor such as Sketching environment, Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, Presentation environment, and Drawing environment. The textbook teaches you to use Autodesk Inventor mechanical design software for building parametric 3D solid components and assemblies as well as creating animations and 2D drawings.

This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools/commands of Autodesk Inventor but also on the concept of design. Every chapter in this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives that allow users to experience the user-friendly and powerful technical capabilities of Autodesk Inventor.

Drawing animals requires fast thinking and quick execution. Unlike artists of landscapes or still-life, the animal illustrator must adhere to this golden rule: observe much and long and draw quick and little. This respected guidebook, written by renowned wildlife illustrator Charles Liedl, shows you how. In How to Draw Animals, artists of every level will learn the techniques for portraying animals accurately and gracefully, whether the creatures are in action or repose. Keen advice on the importance of visually mastering the subject's anatomy gives way to invaluable guidance on line sketching, outlining, shading, form, tone, and detail. More than 100 expert illustrations include muscular and skeletal characteristics, and detail the development process in creating an enormous variety of wild and domestic breeds: horses, deer, game birds, dogs, cats, rabbits, foxes, buffalo, zebras, tigers, wolves, and many more. The author also provides tips on the best media to use and how to use them, as well as how to guide an animal to turn or resume a pose. A time-honored art instruction guide, both motivational and inspirational, this volume is a must-have for the bookshelves of every artist.

For those who have little or no experience with this type of program, this Book is intended. Nothing is difficult when we have desires and ambitions to learn. With this text we put at your disposal all the detailed theory, with practical applications, thickened with abundant descriptive images as an example and exercises that you can execute from Photoshop, while you advance in the study. To help and facilitate the understanding of the lessons, we provide you with a free downloadable package ( link at the end of this book ) with exercises and images that I recommend doing while reading this book. You must have a version of Photoshop installed to run the exercises while alternating with reading the book.

Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference. AnaIv309 shows ONE pose photographed on a rotating platform.24 photos provide a complete 360-degree view around the figure. One photo is taken every 15 degrees as the model turns through a full circle. Choose your preferred view for 2D art like painting or see the whole figure for 3D art like sculpture.Whatever your goal, such as practicing to improve your skills or creating a finished work of art or just unwinding at the end of a long day with some figure drawing, PoseSpace.com poses provide a quality reference you can come back to again and again.Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of questionable content and dubious quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit—expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art so you can get right to the part you actually like: creating art.This ebook has the AnaIv309 pose from poseSpace.com, as shown on the cover.

Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable figure reference. KylieB004 shows ONE pose photographed in deep shadow on a rotating platform with a flower still life.26 photos—one every 15 degrees as the model turns through a full circle, plus close-ups provide a complete 360-degree view around the figure. Choose your preferred view for 2D art like painting or see the whole figure for 3D art like sculpture.Whatever your goal, such as practicing to improve your skills or creating a finished work of art or just unwinding at the end of a long day with some figure drawing, PoseSpace.com poses provide a quality reference you can come back to again and again.Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of questionable content and dubious quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit—expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art so you can get right to the part you actually like: creating art.This ebook has the KylieB004 pose from poseSpace.com, as shown on the cover.

Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable nude figure reference. Jesse021 shows ONE pose photographed on a rotating platform. 28 photos— one every 15 degrees as the model turns through a full circle, plus overheads— provide a complete 360-degree view around the figure. Choose your preferred view for 2D art like painting or see the whole figure for 3D art like sculpture. Whatever your goal, such as practicing to improve your skills or creating a finished work of art or just unwinding at the end of a long day with some figure drawing, Art Models poses provide a quality reference you can come back to again and again. Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of questionable content and dubious quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit— expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art so you can get right to the part you actually like: creating art. This ebook has the Jesse021 pose from poseSpace.com, as shown on the cover.

Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable nude figure reference. SarahAnn032 shows ONE pose photographed on a rotating platform. 34 photos provide a complete 360-degree view around the figure plus overhead and close-up views. Choose your preferred view for 2D art like painting or see the whole figure for 3D art like sculpture. Practice to improve your skills, create a finished work of art to sell or just unwind at the end of a long day with some figure drawing. Art Models poses give you a quality reference you can come back to again and again. Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of dubious content and questionable quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit— expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art so you can get right to the part you actually like: creating art. This eBook has the SarahAnn032 pose from PoseSpace.com, as shown on the cover.

Draw, paint, sculpt the figure anytime and anywhere with this portable nude figure reference. IvyLee003 shows ONE pose photographed on a rotating platform. 27 photos provide a complete 360-degree view around the figure plus close-ups. Choose your preferred view for 2D art like painting or see the whole figure for 3D art like sculpture.Practice to improve your skills, create a finished work of art to sell or just unwind at the end of a long day with some figure drawing. Art Models poses give you a quality reference you can come back to again and again.Don't spend hours searching for reference material only to find photos of dubious content and questionable quality. We've spent years in the studio and you get the benefit— expertly crafted photos designed specifically for figure art so you can get right to the part you actually like: creating art.This ebook has the IvyLee003 pose from PoseSpace.com, as shown on the cover.

Game Design Critic Josh Bycer is back with another entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series to discuss the Role-Playing Game genre. Arguably one of the most recognizable in the industry today, what is and what isn’t an RPG has changed over the years. From the origins in the tabletop market, to now having its design featured all over, it is one of the most popular genres to draw inspiration from and build games around. This is a genre that looks easy from the outside to make, but requires understanding a variety of topics to do right.

The nude figure defines the best way to learn the fundamentals of drawing, yet the end goal of most art presents clothed figures, be it animation, video games, film, or fine art. This sixth book in the ‘FORCE’ series instructs artists on how to understand fabric with FORCE, thus leading to improved drawings of clothed figures. Expertly organized and beautifully illustrated, the book instructs artists to see clothing in a new way, through FORCE. Michael’s clear, concise, and informal writing coupled with Mritunjay and Michael’s FORCE drawings of clothed models comprehensibly informs you, the curious artist, to identify and draw FORCE clothing.

Want to take your creative skills to the next level? Got no real design skills?

Well, now is the time to explore the exciting new field of generative AI art!
Creating AI art doesn’t require any specialized programming knowledge or even much talent for design.

Using software such as DALL-E 2 or Midjourney, anyone can multiply their design output with little to no budget required and without involving any professional human resources. This offers a new form of leverage and one that is permissionless. You don’t need somebody else’s permission or investment to create your own AI creative production line.