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Christopher Hart,Christopher Hart
Most artists whose work features the human head and figure don’t have the time or opportunity to draw directly from models, so it’s essential that they acquire the skills and…
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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. The author presents a…
Simplifies professional anime art so readers can develop their own original characters. This title provides insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful ‘baddies’, humorous personalities…
In easy-to-follow lessons interspersed with high-quality pages for hands-on practice, this guided sketchbook shows how to bring manga’s faeries, warriors, villains, sci-fi figures and monsters to life.
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…
This guide helps artists learn to draw natural-looking figures. Hart portrays everyday, real-life gestures on human-looking foundation figures: standing, sitting, kneeling and reclining, with arms folded, ankles crossed, hands on…
This whimsical approach to drawing is like a blueprint for creativity! This basic impression invites you to fill in all of the details to create your own unique characters. Focusing…
Guide to drawing edgy fashions found in the popular Japanese genre. By best-selling author Christopher Hart. Offers many enticing projects for aspiring artists, from creating classic outfits to different poses.
Christopher Hart
It’s manga GRRLLL power! With these easy-to-follow templates, anyone can create and draw absolutely amazing female anime characters.
Learn all the ins and outs of drawing stunning manga heroines, schoolgirls…
Christopher Hart has come up with cartoons to make you happy! From the important milestones in ones’s life (graduation, falling in love, scoring the winning run) to adorable pets and…
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THE COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS! Charlie Kirby spends his life imagining trouble is just around the corner. For once, it is and the only man on…
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Chris Hart
A manual of techniques that visually simplify and refine the study of the body’s muscles and skeleton into concepts that can easily be used by beginning and intermediate artists alike…
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The Young Artists Draw series by bestselling author Chris Hart focuses on subjects that kids love to draw. The first in the series, Young Artists Draw Manga, shows budding artists…
Chibis are the cute, miniature characters and creatures of Japanese comics. They appear in various genres of manga. This book covers chibis, character by character, according to the various subgenres…
Packed with step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, and lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this title has what aspiring beginners need…
The secrets and techniques of shoujo manga, the popular style of Japanese animation that is based on stories related to peer pressure, friendship, and romance, are revealed in a guide…
C Hart
Includes stories from zombie apocalypses to love stories that are centered on brooding, blood-sucking vampires, the occult and all things goth are immensely popular in today’s media. This title helps…
Focusing on the charming and adorable pets and animals that enrich manga stories, this title teaches readers how to draw animals from a fox, to a cow, to a penguin…
Furries, also known as anthros (for anthropomorphic creatures) are human-animal hybrids. This title introduces readers to the basic concepts of creating half-man/half-beast characters and to the variety of styles in…
Shows aspiring beginners how to draw the most popular style and widely read genre of Japanese comics.
Aimed at beginner artists interested in cartooning and at the countless fans of cartoons, animation and comics, this title shows readers basic tips for creating a cast of the characters…
Anyone who wants to draw Manga must be able to draw powerful women of fantasy. With Hart’s clear, step-by-step drawings and easy-to-follow text, this guide shows aspiring artists exactly how…
Covers various types of animals including dogs, cats, horses, penguins, lions, tigers, bears, and elephants, as well as the favourite sidekick animals - pigs, kangaroos, giraffes, turtles. This book features…
The sequel to Drawing Cutting Edge Comics shows would-be artists how to draw the exaggerated musculature of figures in action poses, in an instructional manual that covers all aspects of…
A guide to drawing Manga-style comic book art. It explains how to draw fantasy robots, monsters, mythical animals and other characters that are part of this Japanese genre. The author…
Shows how to draw the basic manga head and body, eyes, fashion and more. This book explores dynamic action poses, special effects, light and shading, perspective, popular manga types such…
Teaches how to draw cartoon people, fantasy characters, layouts and background design. This title features fantasy characters and even sections on cartoon costumes, character design and cartoon backgrounds and composition.
Cartoon animals are the essential subject matter for the cartoonists and animation artists. This book presents the fuzzy world of creatures, and shows different exotic animals, which also make for…
Helps kids learn how to draw manga eyes, heads, faces, bodies, as well as more specific lessons on drawing manga fantasy characters, manga ‘shoujo’ and manga monsters. This title features…
Moss Hart
Originally published by Random House, Inc., 1959.
Prof Christopher Hart (Lancaster University, UK)
Researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and…
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Dr Christopher Hart (Lancaster University UK)
A collection of original essays celebrating the legacy of the Chicago School of Sociology during the first half of the 20th century. Contributors - Professor Howard S. Becker, San Francisco…
In contemporary linguistics, both cognitive and critical approaches to language have been elaborated in some detail. Unfortunately, the two perspectives have seldom converged, despite the potential theoretical advances such collaboration…
Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward…
Christopher D Hart
This lab workbook is designed for use with the text Horticulture Today. The chapters in the lab workbook correspond to those in the text and should be completed after reading…
Christopher-Gerard Harts
A collection of poems, plays, essays, and short stories by Pan-African nationalist, Christopher-Gerard Isaac Harts.
Vaughan Hart
A fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren’s architecture
Moss 1904-1961 Hart
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Callie Marie Rennison,Timothy Christopher Hart
Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology connects key concepts to real field research and practices using contemporary examples and recurring case studies that demonstrate how concepts relate to students’…
CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a…
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This book addresses the role of perspective in socio-political discourse, and explores, from a cognitive standpoint, the way in which perspective functions in three dimensions - space, time, and evaluation…