Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

This publication investigates the 'owner portrait' within the context of overdue medieval devotional books basically from France and England. those mirror-like images of praying e-book proprietors reply to and aid enhance a transforming into drawback with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterised the spiritual lifetime of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.

On Drawing Trees and Nature: A Classic Victorian Manual (Dover Art Instruction)

This vintage of paintings guideline is the paintings of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), who served as drawing grasp and sketching spouse to the good Victorian paintings critic, John Ruskin. Generations of scholars have benefited from the lessons of this 19th-century grasp, who sought consistently to "produce as close to a likeness to Nature, in each admire, because the tool, or fabric hired, will admit of; now not loads through bona fide imitation, as by means of reviving within the brain these rules that are woke up through a contemplation of Nature .

Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

For over 50 years, Playboy journal has showcased the world's top and brightest cartoonists. Their mind-blowing reliable of artists comprises luminaries similar to dollar Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and enormous quantities of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have constantly proffered a cosmopolitan model of humor sorely lacking in different men's magazines.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

For artists of every age, the final word full-color advisor to drawing numerous cute chibi manga characters from Kamikaze manufacturing facility Studio, the best anime tuition and studio. With their outsized heads, overweight cheeks, and massive and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a well-liked paintings from in image novels, games, and films—and essentially the most tough manga types to grasp.