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Fashion Unfolding showcases the intersection of design, illustration, and DIY Fashion With over 500 full color images depicting excellent examples of the fresh, edgy designs from some of the world s most exciting emerging talents. Fashion Unfolding is an indispensable source of inspiration for those who seek to invent the fashions of tomorrow and influence contemporary aesthetic. Character driven art, screen printing techniques and pixilated forms are bleeding into the fashion mainstream in the form of innovative knitted garments, stunning t-shirts, printed fabrics, colorful shoes, hand made accessories, and ever more compelling marketing collateral and packaging. Fashion Unfolding documents this movement, featuring only the most radical, current and innovative designers and fashion houses, including Deanne Cheuk Design, Plazm Media, Kustaa Saksi (Unit CMA), and HMKM-- each helps to reveal the underlying power of graphics in fashion design, and how these aesthetics affect our fashion sense and influence our purchases..
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Both professional and student illustrators of action and fantasy art can take the guesswork out of rendering extreme anatomy and dynamic action poses with help from this valuable reference source. It presents more than 600 detailed color photos of live models, and represents a wide range of physiques, postures, and poses that can be incorporated in fantasy scenarios. The book’s accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book’s posed images, allowing illustrators to swipe them directly and paste them into their own computer art projects. The book also instructs on rendering realistic effects to the illustrated textures of flesh, hair, clothing, and metal objects, as well as advice on adding highlights, backlights, and shadows. Here is a valuable reference source that belongs in every illustrator’s personal library. All images are copyright free..
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In 1400 Europe lagged far behind much of the world in its understanding of the use of maps. And yet, by 1600 the Europeans had come to use maps for a huge variety of tasks, and were far ahead of the rest of the world in their appreciation of the power and use of cartography The Mapmakers' Quest illuminates the forces behind this development--not only to tease out the strands of thought and practice which led to the use of maps, but also to assess the ways in which such use affected European societies and economies.
David Buisseret is one of the most eminent historians of cartography, and in this striking volume he offers a fresh and compelling approach to the cultural history of early modern Europe, revealing how the development of maps shaped and was shaped by larger movements. Taking as a starting point the question of why there were so few maps in Europe in 1400 and so many by 1650, the book explores the reasons for this and its implications for European history. It examines how mapping and military technology advanced in tandem, how modern states' territories were mapped and borders drawn up, the role of maps in shaping the urban environment, and cartography's links to the new sciences..
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Trees are like portraits in that no two are the same. In order to paint trees we must first learn how to draw them. Winter is an ideal time to look at trees, when their structure is not hidden by leaves. Above all the most important skill to learn is observation

In this fully illustrated pocket size book we study the balance of the naked tree, adding color to the trunk, adding foliage and color, adding depth. Page by page we introduce seasonal tones, spring, summer, fall and winter changes. Trees lit by sunlight, distant trees, negative space, winter woods. Mix the varied hues of trees and bushes, quickly and accurately. A must for the landscape artist.

In order to obtain the most from this and other titles in the 'Color Notes' series, it is strongly recommended that it should be used in conjunction with the Color Mixing Swatch book, an instant guide to 2,460 mixed hues from only 12 colors..
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Dive into the magnificent treasury of India's glorious past!.
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