Exploring the Basics of Drawing (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

Vebell, Victoria

ISBN 10: 1285184599 / ISBN 13: 9781285184593

Published by Cengage Learning, 2014

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

Seller Inventory # BSM.HPB9

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring the Basics of Drawing (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1285184599
• ISBN 13: 9781285184593
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Packed with exquisite artwork and illustrations, the EXPLORING THE BASICS OF DRAWING, 2e package delivers a comprehensive introduction to the art of drawing through both the text and CourseMate.This new edition offers thorough coverage of the fundamental skills needed to learn still-life drawing, basic shapes, and the key concepts of perspective, light, value, and space. Its reader-friendly format offers clear instructions and detailed descriptions. The author thoroughly explains and illustrates each step of the drawing process--reflecting her three decades of professional illustration experience. With new chapters on figure and landscape drawing, as well as unique new author-created videos vividly illustrating essential drawing techniques via CourseMate, students will gain the knowledge and practice they need to build their skills and confidence. Attention CourseMate user: Cengage support for existing users of CourseMate will end of 8/1.

About the Author

Victoria Vebell is a widely admired illustrator who has worked in publishing, editorial, and advertising art for the past 38 years. She also teaches at the Pratt Institute in New York City. While her work has appeared in a variety of formats over the past three decades, she now specializes in paperback book covers where her work has won awards from The Society of Illustrators and clients include Bantam Doubleday Dell, Berkley Books, Harlequin, Simon & Schuster, Penguin/Putnam, Harcourt Brace, the Postal Commemorative Society, and General Foods. She is represented by The July Group in New York. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in digital illustration from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art.