The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration (eBook)

An artist's guide to drawing and illustrating realistic flora, fauna, and botanical scenes from nature

Mindy Lighthipe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
144 Seiten
Walter Foster Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63322-574-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Draw and paint beautiful, vibrant, and realistic birds and botanicals withThe Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration.Take a sketch and transform it into fine art!The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration is a guide for contemporary artists aspiring to master shape, color, and texture and render beautiful, realistic, and vibrant botanical artwork. Author Mindy Lighthipe, an expert botanical artist, educates you about the tools and materials traditionally used in botanical illustration, including pencils, colored pencils, watercolor, gouache, and pastels. This thorough yet easily digestible guide includes overviews of key illustration techniques and basic color theory and mixing, and its loaded with exercises designed to help you learn to see shape, value, and form. By learning tounderstand plant life and anatomy, you can craft elegant flowers, leaves, trees, and much more in no time! To bring it all together, The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration includes step-by-step demonstrations to follow along with as you practice taking sketches and transforming them into fully rendered, colorful pieces of fine art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 550 color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: animals • Beginner's Guide • Birds • Botanicals • botanics • colored pencil drawing • coloured pencil • Composition • drawing • drawing animals • drawing birds • drawing botanicals • drawing flowers • drawing plants • drawing techniques • drawing tips • drawing trees • fine art drawing • fine art painting • Flowers • goache • Gouache • Guide • how to • How-To • How to draw • how to paint • Illustration • illustration techniques • light and shadow • mindy lighthipe • painting • painting animals • painting birds • painting botanicals • painting flowers • painting plants • painting techniques • painting tips • painting trees • Pastel • Patterns • pencil drawing • Perspective • plants • Tutorial • watercolor
• ISBN-10: 1-63322-574-7 / 1633225747
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63322-574-9 / 9781633225749