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3D Artist Magazine offers practical inspiration for the 3D community. The software it covers includes 3DS Max, Modo, Zbrush and cinema 4D. The Magazine offers in depth interviews with leading artists in the field as well as workshop ideas and tips. Readers will find useful step by step guides and inspiration on designing and modelling animation and games. There is usually a free CD given away with each issue which offers tuition on new software to keep each reader up to date with new developments in the industry.

Featuring a curated collection of about 500 exquisite designs, along with essays from top designers about the essence and importance of good typography in design, Design: Type is an insightful resource filled with mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of the type treatments. The first in a new series, this informative sourcebook offers the best of typography in practice and is an essential resource for students and professionals alike.

The fast and easy way to learn the art of fashion drawing
This fun guide gives you dozens of step-by-step diagrams that walk you through the process of preparing creative illustrations that you can later develop into dynamic presentations for your design portfolio. Plus, you'll not only learn how to draw clothes and fabric, but also how to show details that make up the total look: faces and hairstyles, fashion accents, and a wide variety of textures.

This book is the first basic guide for aspiring fashion designers. It fully explains the fundamental concepts surrounding the business of fashion design from both a creative and marketing perspective. Designed as a flow chart, the book walks the reader through the steps necessary when developing a collection and highlights the key points in the process, from the genesis of an idea through to the production of a final design. A complete reference, this book also includes a listing of the major fashion schools around the world, and illustrates the paths taken by some of the most distinguished designers that got them where they are today.

A declaration of love to Peter Kuper’s adoptive city in which he has lived since 1977, this diary is a vibrant survey of New York City’s history. Through Kuper’s illustrations, this book depicts a climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, the homeless living in Times Square, roller skaters in Central Park, the impact of September 11, the luxury of Wall Street, street musicians, and other scenes unique to the city. With comics, illustrations, and sketches, this work of art portrays everything from the low life to the high energy that has long made people from around the world flock to the Big Apple.

Inspired by one of the world’s greatest novels, Ohio artist Matt Kish set out on an epic voyage of his own one day in August 2009. More than one hundred and fifty years following the original publication of Moby-Dick, Kish began illustrating Herman Melville’s classic, creating an image a day over the next eighteen months based on text selected from every page of the 552-page Signet Classics paperback edition.

Based upon the author’s own successful workshops, Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as recording edges, creating dimension, adding accuracy, developing value, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face, both frontal and profile views. Step by step, readers learn how to create a reasonable likeness of an object and give it spatial depth using such simple black-and-white mediums as pens, pencils, charcoal, and graphite wash. Inspirational examples and tips for success from beginning students who have worked on the same material confirm readers’ successes, and allow readers to consider the advice and impressions of others at the same level.

From the pages of great literature to Hollywood movies, zombies are appearing everywhere. Now aspiring artists can bring them to life, so to speak, by learning to render them with pencil, paint, and digital image-editing software. This comprehensive book gets into all the gory details, such as creating bloodshot eyes, forming robust brows, and imitating the look of pale, dead flesh. How to Draw Zombies also features 15 step-by-step projects that guide artists from initial sketches to finished works of art, including a Voodoo Queen, a gothic zombie, and even a zombie romance.

Published 11 times a year, Desktop is Australia's most read monthly design culture magazine. With a strong involvement from the design community, Desktop is the leading publication for design, covering a vast array of creative fields including animation, advertising/branding, digital media, illustration, packaging, photography, post production, typography and web design. With contributions and insights by a hand picked collection of leading creatives, academics and thinkers both from Australia and overseas, Desktop set out to inspire and inform.

Design, Interiors, Fashion, Art & Lifestyle
Published by IPC Media. Truly international, consistently intelligent and hugely influential, Wallpaper* is the the world's official authority and commentator on design and style. Wallpaper* attracts the most sophisticated global audience by constantly pushing into new creative territories and ensuring its coverage of everything from architecture to motoring, fashion to travel, and interiors to jewellery remains unrivalled.

Digital Arts is the magazine for switched-on creatives, featuring a wealth of tutorials and techniques across illustration, vector art, digital painting, animation, graphic and interactive design. It also brings you detailed insight into the latest trends and hottest projects from the world's leading artists.

Vogue was launched in 1965 and it is the international benchmark for fashion, style, previews of international trends, beauty, luxury, cultural and social life, design, celebrities and international events.

DDI Magazine offers solutions to help retailers and designers create dynamic, effective store environments. The magazine focuses on store design, visual merchandising, architecture, marketing and branding, with a readership of qualified high-level, in-house retail and contract design professionals. Store planners, visual merchandisers, store designers, independent architects, contract designers and consumer products manufacturers working with high-volume retail chains depend on coverage in DDI for cutting-edge trends, strategies and product applications for store design.

Digital Arts - comprehensive coverage of the art of graphic design, 3D, animation, video, effects, web and interactive design. Digital Arts is the UK's leading resource for creative professionals. igital Arts addresses the needs of those within the exploding digital media market by providing relevant and forward thinking content, and by consistently running more exclusive reviews and features than any other magazine in the market.

Architectural Review Australia has been the independent voice of Australian architecture for over 25 years. Widely read and respected by architectural practitioners, affiliated professional and all who have a keen interest in the field, AR works collaboratively with opinion leaders to provide considered, proactive and fresh insights into the world of contemporary Australian architecture.

Landscape Architecture - the magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects provides timely information on built landscapes and new techniques for ecologically sensitive planning and design.

Regardless of which medium you prefer or what your project may be, drawing is essential to give your art a solid foundation. Learn the fundamentals of drawing to the detailed final touches; ideal for any skill level. You can trust Drawing magazine to be your single source for everything related to drawing.