Realism Challenge, The: Drawing and Painting Secrets from a Modern Master of Hyperrealism - Softcover

Crilley, M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385346298 ISBN 13: 9780385346290

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 2015

Synopsis

With over 10 million views and growing, Mark Crilley's "Realism Challenge" YouTube videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans and have been featured on sites such as Yahoo News and Reddit.

Now, for the first time, Crilley pulls back the curtain to reveal his artistic tricks and secret methods for creating these astonishing renderings.

The Realism Challenge leads artists through Crilley's use of pencil, watercolour, pastel, and gouache to produce life-like, seemingly impossible drawings of common household objects like:

• playing cards
• crumpled paper
• leaves
• seashells

 

All of which look just like photographs.

Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques-such as rendering drop shadows, applying white highlights, and building from light to dark-that artists can master in order to conquer The Realism Challenge.

About this title

About the Author

Mark Crilley is the author of Mastering Manga and Mastering Manga 2, as well as several manga novels. Since being selected for Entertainment Weekly's 'lt List' in 1998, Crilley has published nearly twenty books and developed a massive Internet following for his drawing demonstration videos, earning him a spot as one of the top 25 Most Subscribed to Gurus on YouTube. His books have been featured in USA Today, the New York Daily News, and Disney Adventures magazine, as well as on CNN Headline News.

From the Back Cover

A captivating, step-by-step guide that teaches artists to draw and paint exact duplicates of common objects, rendered in the trompe l’oeil, hyperrealistic style of artist Mark Crilley’s popular YouTube video series.

Are You Up to the Challenge?

With just watercolors, colored pencils, and white gouache, artist Mark Crilley takes you step-by-step through his process for producing stunning, hyperrealistic recreations of everyday items. Based on Crilley’s mega-popular “Realism Challenge” YouTube videos, The Realism Challenge contains thirty lessons demonstrating how to render mirror-like duplicates in the trompe l’oeil tradition of everything from shells, leaves, and candy bars to your very own still life arrangements. Each lesson builds off the previous one, as you’ll master essential artistic techniques like creating drop shadows, adding highlights, and building from light to dark. Learn the secrets of one of hyperrealism’s biggest stars. Come take . . . The Realism Challenge!

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0385346298
• ISBN 13: 9780385346290
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160