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Learn how to draw manga characters and scenes! Best-selling author, Christopher Hart, teaches budding artists how to master drawing manga hair, poses, facial expressions, and more in this essential how-to-draw volume.

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In the current age where democratic and egalitarian ideals have preeminence, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, among other hierarchically organized religious traditions, faces the challenging questions: “Why is hierarchy maintained as the model of organizing the church, and what are the theological justifications for its persistence?” These questions are especially significant for historically and contemporarily understanding how Orthodox Christians negotiate their spiritual ideals with the challenges of their social and ecclesiastical realities. To critically address these questions, this book offers four case studies of historically disparate Byzantine theologians from the sixth to the fourteenth-centuries—Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, Niketas Stethatos, and Nicholas Cabasilas—who significantly reflect on the relationship between spiritual authority, power, and hierarchy in theoretical, liturgical, and practical contexts. Although Dionysius the Areopagite has been the subject of much scholarly interest in recent years, the applied theological legacy of his development of “hierarchy” in the Christian East has not before been explored. Relying on a common Dionysian heritage, these Byzantine authors are brought into a common dialogue to reveal a tradition of constructing authentic ecclesiastical hierarchy as foremost that which communicates divinity.

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Bestselling author and veteran art teacher Catherine V. Holmes teaches readers to draw a wide variety of animals, plants, and landscapes from all around the world, 15 minutes at a time. Author and artist extraordinaire, Catherine V. Holmes goes beyond the backyard with Drawing Nature, a quick and easy guide to drawing animals, plants, and landscapes from across the globe. Step-by-step tutorials break down how to illustrate perennial favorites like eagles and elephants, as well as more exotic subjects like capybaras, baobab trees, and echidnas, in just 15 minutes per project. Readers will work in pencil, oil pastel, and other mediums as they learn about techniques like shading, scumbling, and hatching. From cuddly koalas to hairy tarantulas, Drawing Nature makes it easy for nature lovers of all ages to draw fascinating flora and fauna from every continent.

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This is a comprehensive tutorial on how to draw an array of cartoon faces. This is the latest in the bestselling 'How to Draw' series, from master cartoonist and prolific author Chris Hart. It includes step-by-step instructions and diagrams to accommodate beginners. The personality of a cartoon character begins with the face: the head, the features, the expressions. Get that right and you can create a memorable personality. Bestselling How to Draw author Christopher Hart presents the ultimate tutorial on the topic in masterful detail, covering characters both male and female, from babies to adults, in all shapes and sizes. His accessible, step-by-step demonstrations go through all the features and explain how to build a character. You can: explore appealing cartoon head types; see how to create a variety of eyes, brows, mouths, and popular hairstyles; and learn how to turn the head in different directions while maintaining a character's visual integrity. An introductory section discusses essential shading techniques while a bonus section shows the basics of drawing the entire body.

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Bestselling author Christopher Hart offers up a booklet filled with easy-to-follow instructions on drawing cartoon animals.

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For anyone with manga mania, this guided sketchbook will be an endless source of instruction and inspiration. In easy-to-follow lessons interspersed with high-quality pages for hands-on practice, bestselling author Christopher Hart shows how to bring manga's faeries, warriors, villains, sci-fi figures and monsters to life. The pad encourages students to sketch right along with Hart, mastering the skills to draw characters' heads, expressions, bodies, outfits and dynamic action poses.

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In Writing Authority, Hawke argues that the rapidly changing political and economic landscape of early Greece prompted elites to begin committing laws to written form. The emergence of the polis and its institutions, the demographic growth of Greece, the development of market forces, and the commoditization of wealth all presented new challenges and difficulties for the Greeks of the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.E. Hawke contends that no one felt the attendant anxieties of these changes more acutely than the leading members of early Greek communities—they confronted regulating their intense competition for status and power in an environment where traditional sources of authority, such as Homeric epic, offered no ready solutions for problems arising from the transformation of Greek society. Greek elites enshrined in writing rules aimed at stabilizing their relationships with one another and, by extension, their communities. Challenging both established and emerging orthodoxies about the appearance of written law in ancient Greece, Writing Authority questions the importance of a popular or communal role in the earliest Greek legislation. Approaches from anthropology, legal studies, and sociology are used to situate the emergence of Greek law in the broader context of Greek legal culture in the eighth through early sixth centuries B.C.E. as Hawke describes in rich detail the legal culture of Homer's world, considers the impact of literacy on Greek attitudes about law and authority and its practical consequences for the governing of the Greek polis, and examines the effects of the tumultuous changes in Archaic Greece on the leading members of Greek communities. The result is a compelling monograph that provides an exhaustive and nuanced history of earliest Greek law and the motivations of the elites that brought it into being. It will be of interest to scholars of Greek history, classicists, and early legal historians.

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Learn how to draw adorable, tiny manga pals! Best-selling author, Christopher Hart, teaches budding artists how to master the techniques of drawing cute little manga characers in this essential how-to-draw volume.

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Step-by-step drawings to nourish your creative self! What makes you happy? Whatever it is, draw it, with the help of Christopher Hart, the world’s top-selling author of art instruction books! Whether it’s an adorable pet, the trip of a lifetime, or an everyday moment to savor (like your morning cup of coffee or buying a cute pair of shoes), this book celebrates the many things that make you happy—and helps you turn them into fun-filled drawings. An enlightening introduction explains how to create the illustrations and make them come alive: how to use color, change poses, personalize the drawings, add shading, and more.

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The latest coloring book from bestselling author and former star of TV’s Miami Ink, Chris Garver, is a gorgeous collection of nature drawings, featuring wild animals, glorious flowers and foliage, and stunning landscapes. A follow-up to Chris Garver’s popular Color Odyssey and Animal Odyssey,Nature Odyssey contains nearly 85 gorgeously detailed drawings—from intimate close-ups of flowers and butterflies, to majestic portraits of animals, to bold landscapes. Printed on both sides of high-quality wood-free paper, the hand-drawn images provide hours of detailed coloring pleasure and inspiration. Fans of tattoo art and of Chris's work, as well as coloring enthusiasts who seek out beautiful images of flora and fauna, will cherish this volume.

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Attention all creative fashionistas! The ultimate guide to drawing today's most stylish fashion designs is here created by the world's most popular author of art-instruction books. Set your inner designer free with this on-trend sequel to Christopher Hart's bestselling 'Fashion Design Studio', featuring easy templates to help aspiring fashionistas draw the garments of their dreams. Hart not only covers perennially popular styles and the basics of drawing dresses, tops, trousers and accessories, he provides the fun details all fashion-forward artists love. Here are irresistibly hip touches like hi-low hemlines, cutout shoulders, patchwork denim, high-cut waistlines, floral-print ankle boots, and carefully clashed patterns. Every page will spark your creativity and give you all you need to draw your most fabulous creations!

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Cook up something magical in your very own kitchen with 101 recipes inspired by Harry Potter, Tolkien, Arabian Nights, fairy tales, and more! For lovers of legends, literary enchantment, and (of course) food, Once Upon a Kitchen celebrates all things magical. Author and top chef Leslie Bilderback has created 101 recipes inspired by classic books, history, movies and TV shows. She draws from sources as rich and varied as Shakespeare's plays, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Grimm's fairy tales, Washington Irving, Lord of the Rings, the Star Wars saga, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Potterverse. Enjoy Scheherazade's Arabic Coffee and Cardamom Cookies; a Coconut Shrimp Green Curry "Witches Brew" in honor of Macbeth; Gandalf's Cold Chicken and Pickles; Jedi Ration Bars; Rapunzel's Rampion Salad; Mary Poppins's We Are Not a Codfish and Chips; and Mulan's Dragon Fruit Pops.

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As an essential part of the conveyancing process, the purchaser of property or land carries out a search at the local authority offices to discover if there are any planning; environmental health; highways or water restrictions appertaining to the property or land to be purchased. The new edition of this popular work provides a clear and concise commentary on the new Forms Con29 and Con29O and on the current version of Form Con29DW (Water and Drainage Enquiries). For the first time Form Con 29 now has enquiries relating to surface water drainage schemes, heritage partnership agreements, flood and coastal erosion risk management, community infrastructure levy, assets of community value, flood consents and land drainage consents. The sixth edition of this book examines each enquiry in turn, and clearly sets out the relevant and up-to-date legal position with sources and references. The authors then provide a summary of the implications of any reply by the local authority or water company concerned, positive or negative, so that a prospective purchaser can make a balanced decision as to whether to proceed with the purchase. Enquiries of Local Authorities and Water Companies: A Practical Guide provides an invaluable reference for the conveyancing practitioner, local land charges officer or estate agent.

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This title is suitable for children aged 5-11 years. This is a three-in-one, updated compilation of Chris Hart's popular books "Draw a Circle", "Draw a Square" (9781933027708) and "Draw a Triangle" (9781933027722), now complete with a new introduction and templates. The bestselling how-to author breaks down the drawing process into its simplest components, so it's easy and fun for kids to learn. Every child can master these basic shapes, and that's all they need to begin creating mermaids, superheroes, fire-breathing dragons, and a circus full of animals.

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“Those who have difficulty with planning or journaling will be inspired by the multitude of projects and options for personalizing their daily and overall life story. . . . Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (Starred review)Need to get organized? Blogging star Rebecca Spooner shows you how to create a great journal that will put your life in order. Whether you’re rearranging your laundry room, planning the week’s menus, outlining your dream vacation, or training for your first 5K, Journal Me Organized provides all the information you need to eliminate mental clutter, focus on goals, and enjoy a creative outlet. Author Rebecca Spooner covers everything, from choosing a notebook and the basics of cross-referencing to the intricacies of different types of journaling, planning, goal setting, and time management. The fun truly begins with Spooner’s inspirational pages, clever ideas, and easy-to-follow instructions. She provides tutorials, sample lettering to trace, and templates that range from minimalist daily spreads to exuberant designs that capture the joy of holidays, birthdays, and personal milestones.

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Draw along with bestselling author and artist Christopher Hart as he shows you how to draw...anything! In You Can Draw Anything!, acclaimed drawing instructor and author Christopher Hart leads you through a fun, easy, and informative course in learning to draw. Each lesson teaches you how to create one or more specific drawings, while also sharing important art principles that you can apply to many drawings. In classic Christopher Hart style, the lessons are shown step by step with concise but valuable instruction, captions, and helpful hints. The lessons are grouped into chapters that allow you to explore a variety of subjects, including animals, people, flowers and trees, cute stuff, magical themes, and more. It’s like taking a course in art school—from the comfort of your own home!

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From the author of adult-colouring sensations 'Botanical Wonderland' and 'Desert Wonderland', as well as the bestselling 'Color Workshop', comes a stunning guide to drawing a garden full of flowers. Rachel Reinert is the perfect artist to explain the intricacies of drawing flowers. With the straightforward, step-by step instructions that are the hallmark of her teaching style, 'In Bloom' covers more than 30 flowers from around the world, from beloved tulips, roses, violets and tiger lilies to the more exotic proteas, kangaroo paws and birds of paradise. Featuring matte paper stock and instructions on colouring your drawings, this is an exceptionally beautiful book with a decidedly modern feel.

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Draw colorful subjects with bestselling author Lee Hammond. This book is loaded with fun lessons and projects from popular instructor Lee Hammond on drawing brightly colored nature subjects realistically—more easily than you ever thought possible! The book includes basic colored-pencil drawing instruction on materials, using a grid to transfer a preliminary drawing from a photo, values, color, shadows, blending, and other key lessons for beginners. Twenty+ demonstrations show how to draw subjects from three different viewpoints, and how to draw detail from far away to super close. It includes fruit, flowers, leaves, butterflies, and birds.

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Appeals to both manga and colouring fans. Fun-to-colour illustrations. By bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart celebrates 'grrrrllll' power with a wildly entertaining colouring book featuring manga's most popular female characters. This must-have collection for fans draws on Hart's numerous accomplishments in the genre and offers intricately patterned black-and-white illustrations drawn in his eye-catching style. Not only are the pictures fun to colour, but would-be artists can use the illustrations as a tool to practise colour design for their own character drawings.

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Leading art instructor and bestselling author Christopher Hart teaches tweens and teens how to draw cool anime characters. When you start with simple shapes, who knows where you might end up? They’re key to drawing just about anything—including full-fledged, expressive anime characters. This book, especially geared to the talents of teens and tweens, is loaded with more than 100 step-by-step demonstrations created by Chris Hart. He explains how to draw everything you need to make this popular genre come alive, from dramatic hairstyles to a comically bad kitty that’s spilled the milk: faces, figures, emotions, gestures, poses, fashions, and more. Led by a cute mascot who takes them through the book, readers will enjoy these fun, effective, and easy techniques.

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With bestselling how to draw book author Christopher Hart as your guide, learning how to draw cartoons has never been easier! Thanks to Christopher Hart’s simplified process, anyone can start creating dynamic cartoon characters right away. He has developed the easiest-ever approach to drawing the basics like heads, bodies, and those super-important cartoon expressions. Hart then helps beginners apply these fundamentals to a variety of fun types and settings such as animals, under-the-sea locales, famous stock characters, and popular backgrounds. Each lesson is laid out in accessible steps and accompanied by Chris’s personable, quick instruction.Featuring the same accessible step-by-step teaching style as other Christopher Hart drawing books, Learn to Draw Cartoons is the perfect cartoon drawing book for both beginner artists who want to learn how to draw cartoon characters, as well as experienced cartoonists looking to improve upon their existing skills.

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Bestselling author and how-to-draw expert Christopher Hart presents an essential guide to drawing the cutest characters in manga from the most popular genres. Cute characters are a hallmark of manga. Whether the genre is romance, fantasy, or adventure, a cute character type is always included in the mix to delight manga fans. In The Cute Collection, Christopher Hart zeroes in on these adorable characters by showing beginning artists how to draw them for any storyline. This is the second book in the new Manga 100 series, promising pages chock-full of at least 100 original characters to draw. Through Chris’s approachable, step-by-step instruction, artists of any level will learn to draw all things cute—from the always-popular bubbly schoolgirls and amiable schoolboys to fantasy and adventure characters that all have a certain warm-and-fuzzy appeal. Poses, expressions, clothing, and background tutorials are included to round out the charm. There’s even a section on cute robots featuring original artwork from Chris himself! Readers will love being overloaded with all things cute, while learning to draw along the way.

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This book examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other.

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The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82) was the author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies - "Vida". This text examines the impact of textual models on Teresa's self-construction.

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Bestselling author and drawing master Catherine V. Holmes distills a lifetime of drawing knowledge into 101 easy-to-grasp tips for artists who want to improve their drawing. Artist extraordinaire Catherine V. Holmes has written numerous successful step-by-step drawing books.101 Drawing Secrets takes a different spin on the traditional how-to-draw book. Busy artists who are short on time or just want to learn something new easily can dip into the book at any point and pick up a tip or trick they can immediately apply to their own artwork. From quick written tips, to illustrated examples, to simple step-by-step tutorials, the tips provide valuable insight into drawing for anyone wanting to take their art to the next level. Tips include: Draw from different points of view; Draw what you see, not what you think, by drawing upside down; Use a grid system to improve accuracy; Look at negative space to check accuracy; Break the subject down into simple shapes; Sketch daily to improve more quickly; Create an eye-catching focal point; Draw on unusual surfaces; Convert your reference image to black and white to simplify; Draw with one continuous line to strengthen your brain, eye, and hand coordination; Develop your signature style; Draw more realistic teeth; Focus on the process, not the product; Avoid smudging that can ruin your drawings; Crop your artwork to create a more compelling piece.

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Nicky Epstein presents an enchanting collection of fantasy and fairy tale costumes for the popular 18-inch dolls. The beloved author has created 22 imaginative patterns featuring favourite characters, including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Peter Pan, as well as a dragon, unicorn, witch, fairy, mermaid, wizard and pirate. Plus, there are three matching accessory patterns for little girls, so they can dress up in whimsical knits too! Each doll is presented in a beautifully photographed and creatively designed setting to match its costume, sure to inspire everyone who loves make-believe and magic.

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From bestselling author Jane Davenport comes the ultimate inspiration for mixed-media artists! Make more time for creativity! In the follow-up to her popular 'Whimsical Girls', internationally known artist Jane Davenport once again offers her signature fanciful female figures, now accompanied by a menagerie of animal friends: cuddly koalas, noble lions, exotic birds and more. Inspirational prompts and Jane's stunning illustrations accompany the journal pages, which are printed on a variety of fine-art papers, including colouring paper, marker paper and watercolour paper, all perforated for easy display. Colourful collage papers and bonus stickers with even more original art and quotations round out this gorgeous package.

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Have yourself a merry Chibi Christmas with this totally adorable coloring book from bestselling author Chris Hart! Just in time to go under the tree, The Cute Chibi Christmas Coloring Book gives manga maniacs and coloring fanatics an additional reason to celebrate! Chibis are the cutest characters in manga, and these 47 holiday-themed illustrations—created by manga artists AKANE and ERO PINKU—are ideal for Christmas coloring. Imagine a little chibi Santa or reindeer, an adorable chibi kitten peeking out of a stocking, or a rosy-cheeked chibi ice skater out in the falling snow. Intricate backgrounds accompany each character to make for a fun and challenging coloring experience, and all pages are printed single sided on quality stock to allow for the use of most coloring materials.

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An illustrated how-to guide from bestselling author Jane Maday that teaches readers how to keep a sketch journal, full of step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques, and creative prompts. There’s more than one way to keep a journal. How to Journal Like an Artist will teach you everything you need to know to draw your daily life. In this encouraging and inspirational guide, Jane Maday shares tips and techniques on keeping a sketch journal, also known as an illustrated journal or art journal. From information on art materials to creative prompts to step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to record your favorite memories with art instead of words. Plus you’ll get blank pages to practice on and pictures to cut out and use in your own collages. How to Journal Like an Artist is a colorful, illustrated how-to guide for artists, journalers, and creative souls of all styles and experience levels.

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Optimistic coloring pages from bestselling author Jane Maday. Nurture your soul with 35+ hopeful coloring pages, along with front-of-the-book instruction on basic materials for different effects. Set your worries free with this wonderful activity to focus your mind on all the blessings in your life with these positive affirmations!

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With this coloring book and interactive guide to the human body, dance students and teachers will have fun learning anatomy while coloring dozens of detailed illustrations of the body in key dance positions. In the tradition of the best-selling Yoga Anatomy Coloring Book, The Dance Anatomy Coloring Book seeks to demystify anatomy for dancers, dance students, and teachers. Author Tricia Zweier, an associate professor of dance and dance science, provides an entertaining and informative journey through the human body, focusing on the bones, joints, and muscles that are employed in dance. After an overview of helpful terms and the systems of the body, Tricia covers the skeletal system, joints, and connective tissue, followed by the muscular system. Each anatomical feature is illustrated with a beautiful black-and-white drawing of a dance position to color. The book includes positions from a variety of dance styles, including ballet, modern dance, hip hop, and jazz. Coloring the bones and muscles of the body, as well as the names for them, helps to solidify learning and aids in remembering their location and function. Fun facts about anatomy and tips for dancers are sprinkled throughout the book. Thirty-two perforated flash cards enable readers to quiz themselves and study dance anatomy on the go.

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The cowl is back! Bestselling author Cathy Carron once again gives the cowl her visionary treatment. Showcasing 35 fresh designs, this book offers an impressive range of styles, from Cafe au Lait, where two contrasting colours combine with a ripple pattern, to the sleek, double-faced Sun Valley. Beautiful colour work, beading, shaping, cables, textures, embellishments and more will catch the eyes and hearts of every knitter and fashionista.

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Forget tired scarves and bulky turtlenecks - funky, chunky, hip and happening cowls are where it's at! Following up her hit book "Hattitude", author and designer Cathy Carron weaves a fashion statement that puts in-the-know women head and shoulders above the rest. Among the more than 35 patterns provided here are a cozy neck wrap featuring a built-in iPod holder, a lacy drawstring hood and a woven necklace sparkling with Swarovski crystals.

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Bestselling author Kari Chapin (The Handmade Marketplace) and needle-felting artist Kerri Wessel concoct a delightful "cookbook" of 25 amazing felted foods. The menu features such fare as Good Morning breakfast dishes; Diner Delights; Farmer's Market fruits and vegetables; Sweet Tooth desserts and Holiday Treats - like heart-shaped lollipops for Valentine's Day. Also included are: detailed instructions for turning these tasty-looking projects into snack-size jewellery, magnets, ornaments, hairclips and paperweights.

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Crocheters: go on the edge with Nicky Epstein-bestselling author, needleworker and designer extraordinaire! With approximately 200 different edgings and some gorgeous projects, all with detailed instructions, pattern charts and photographs, Nicky's guide will have crocheters grabbing for their hooks. Create a cropped red jacket featuring oversized buttons and pretty scaIIoping, an ecru crystal shoulder cape, a hatband and bracelet, a unique multi-coloured top and more. This comprehensive guide to crochet edging will take you to the next level and is sure to be an essential part of your needlework library.

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The addition to bestselling author Christopher Hart’s Figure It Out! series offers essential tips and tricks that simplify the basics of drawing people. This is the easy way to learn how to draw people! Chris Hart offers straightforward instruction designed to solve common figure-drawing problems that aspiring artists encounter. His accessible, practical techniques include focusing on the body’s natural curves, as opposed to drawing muscles, and breaking the torso down into three distinct, understandable areas. With this book, anyone can immediately grasp the basics—and create the art to prove it!

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If you can make a simple shape, you can draw an animal! In his fun follow-up to Drawing Shape by Shape, Christopher Hart - the world's bestselling author of how-to-draw books - has devised an irresistible menagerie of more than 90 colourful creatures to create. Begin with a basic circle, square, rectangle, or triangle, and turn it step-by-easy-step into a kitty, dog, elephant, baby gator, and many more. And what's really cool is, you can still see the starting shape even in the completed animal! Perfect for children - and artistically inclined adults, too!

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Learn how to draw your favorite furry friend! With Christopher Hart's simple templates, any pet owner can do it. Whatever your pet, you can capture it in a beautiful drawing! Chris Hart, the world's bestselling art instruction author, has created templates that work for pups and kitties of just about any shape and size--from poodles, dachshunds, and Bernese Mountain Dogs to tabbies, Persians, and Siamese cats. Every template is easy to follow so you'll get adorable results worthy of framing . . . no matter what your skill level.

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This title features 30 stylish vest patterns to knit. It is created by top designers such as Nicky Epstein, Deborah Newton and Yoko Hatta. It features a range of styles and techniques, all suitable for beginners. Want to give an outfit a stylish lift? Then try one of these beautiful, fashion-forward vests. Created by top indie designers, including Nicky Epstein, Deborah Newton, Cathy Carron, Yoko Hatta, Fiona Ellis, and John Brinegar, the accessible patterns feature a range of styles and techniques, from lace to entrelac. And they're all made from 220 Superwash[registered] Aran, a lovely, affordable merino from Cascade Yarns that knitters love to work with and wear.

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". . . will make knitters drool. Fans of Noro will adore this one, and those new to the yarn will want to get started ASAP." --Booklist Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Noro's incomparable Kureyon yarn with this stunning collection of projects! When it comes to color and quality few yarns compare to Noro's ultra-soft Kureyon (Japanese for "crayon"). It's a joy to knit with, with luscious colorways that turn every project into a work of art. This stunning volume in the Knit Noro series commemorates the yarn's 30-year milestone with 30 vibrant projects, from quick cowls and hats to more intricate cardigans and blankets. Create such gorgeous items as a showstopping shawl of neutrals accented with bright earth tones, a multidirectional cardigan that makes the most of Noro's color striping, a Picasso-esque modular blanket, and a star-motif capelet.

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Cowls are more popular than ever, and these 60 quick and luscious designs will appeal to knitters of all skill levels. Made of luxurious, worsted-weight, merino/alpaca blends from Cascade Yarns, the cowls feature granny squares, faux cables, diagonal ridges, bobble flowers, colourful zigzags, textured lace and other popular patterns. Anyone would make a great gift or satisfying go-to project.

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This book includes 30 striking lace designs to create in the incredibly popular, high quality Noro Yarn. It is the newest installment in a very successful series- 6,000 copies of previous books from the collection sold in export markets, It includes a variety of projects suitable for intermediate-to-advanced knitters. Thanks to its extraordinary hand-dyed colours and luxurious textures, even the simplest garments knitted with Noro Yarns look gorgeous. These 30 striking lace designs, meant for intermediate-to-advanced knitters and all made with Noro, highlight the beauty of this cult favourite. The vivid, elegant projects include hats, cowls, shawlettes, blankets and more. With this unrivalled yarn, satisfying results are practically guaranteed!

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The Japanese-style comic books known as manga have a huge following in America. Chris Hart, author of several bestselling how-to-draw books, now offers aspiring young artists a complete course in the manga-romance genre. He shows how to create classic manga characters: sweet and pretty girls with huge eyes; exciting boy heroes, including handsome teen-idol types, rough-hewn rebels and young mystery men; girl comedy characters, who not only provide laughs, but also help high school girls deal with their insecurities; and many others. With thorough art instruction and lots of ideas for story plots, this is an intriguing invitation to an art form that anyone who loves to draw will find irresistible.

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From all-star sneakers to elephants, you can learn to draw anything . . . in just 15 minutes! If you want to draw but think you don't have the time to learn--or feel too intimidated to start-15-Minute Artist invites you to jump in. Bestselling author Catherine Holmes (How to Draw Cool Stuff) provides more than 60 step-by-step projects for depicting animals, food, plants, household items, and more--and you can complete each one in just 15 minutes. Her tutorials break the process down so you can achieve quick, satisfying results. In addition to pencil renderings, Catherine demonstrates techniques for working with charcoal, pen, and colored pencil, and provides tips and sidebars on blending, texture, perspective, and shading.

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The Hugely popular Christopher Hart simplifies professional anime art so readers can develop their own original characters. It includes templates, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises. Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel. Bestselling How-to-Draw author Christopher Hart helps them reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful 'baddies', humorous personalities, and fantasy figures. He supplies templates for each- an extensive array of 'menus' of head and body types, outfits, and accessories, as well as detailed, accessible, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises. Plus, Hart showcases some of the best anime artists in the world for this title, including Inma R., Tabby Kink, Ayame Shiroi, Euro Pinku and Tina Francisco. It's the guide every would-be anime artist has been looking for!

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From the world's most-recognized knitting magazine, and a leader in the industry, comes the ultimate guide to learning how to knit for absolute beginners. Anyone can learn to knit--and who better to explain the essentials than the trusted authorities at Vogue Knitting? Here is the magazine's definitive guide to learning all about yarn, needles, patterns, and, of course, those two basic stitches: knitting and purling. Follow along with beautiful step-by-step photographs that teach how to cast on, bind off, and knit up a collection of stitches ranging from basic stockinette to basket weave, bobbles, cables, and more. Links to video instruction are included for a complete how-to experience. Aspiring knitters can apply their new skills to more than 20 accessible, stylish patterns taken from the pages of Vogue Knitting. Ranging from staples like scarves and hats to impressive sweaters, the easy first projects include a detailed breakdown construction.

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Writers in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of "gathering" textual fragments and "framing" or forming, arranging, and assimilating them, Mary Crane shows how keeping commonplace books made up the English humanists' central transaction with antiquity and provided an influential model for authorial practice and authoritative self-fashioning. She thereby revises our perceptions of English humanism, revealing its emphasis on sayings, collectivism, shared resources, anonymous inscription, and balance of power--in contrast to an aristocratic mode of thought, which championed individualism, imperialism, and strong assertion of authorial voice. Crane first explores the theory of gathering and framing as articulated in influential sixteenth-century logic and rhetoric texts and in the pedagogical theory with which they were linked in the humanist project. She then investigates the practice of humanist discourse through a series of texts that exemplify the notebook method of composition. These texts include school curricula, political and economic treatises (such as More's Utopia), contemporary biography, and collections of epigrams and poetic miscellanies. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Celebrated designer Debbie Bliss knits the most adorable collection of baby wear ever! This title includes 15 original designs. Debbie, who lives in London, has designed for Baby Gap and Marks & Spencer. Fifteen original designs include everything from teeny garments for premature babies and sporty jumpers to special occasion outfits and accessories - and every one showcases Debbie's signature style. In addition, she leads readers through the entire process: size and shaping, yarn selection, colour and pattern, and embellishments. A designer's workbook, with knitters' graph paper, templates, and a stitch gauge, rounds out this indispensable guide.

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