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Angus Hyland
R258.00
A sequel to the highly successful Pen & Mouse, Hand to Eye features forty-five illustrators from around the world. Including both commissioned artwork and experimental projects, the work collected here shows that cutting-edge computer illustration is still thriving and continues to push boundaries. In the last two years, however, there has been a noticeable move towards a handcrafted style, perhaps a logical reaction to the torrent of digital imagery. More and more image-makers are turning to traditional tools and techniques, and their methods vary widely: some work solely with pen, pencil and paint; others create images using tapestry and embroidery, and many incorporate digital elements into handmade art. Hand to Eye reflects these diverse approaches to image-making, from the cleanness of slick, vector-based work, through photorealism, to a lo-fi, handcrafted aesthetic; from exquisitely detailed, brightly coloured collages to simple, single-colour sketches.
Martin Salisbury
R234.00
Containing essential advice and guidance, this book uses step-by-step sketches and instructions throughout to reveal the techniques and skills required to illustrate children's books. It explains how to tackle fantasy, fairy tales, realism and nature drawings using a variety of media and advises on the different aspects needed when working for differing age groups.
Lawrence Zeegen
£13.16
Lawrence Zeegen
R285.00
Absorbing and practical exploration of the art of digital image-making, featuring work from a Who's Who of contemporary digital illustrators
Martin Dawber
R285.00
A radical change has occurred in the world of contemporary fashion illustration. No longer is fashion the reserve of the elite - with the rise in popularity of designer labels among the masses, designers are targeting a sector of the market that has been previously untapped. Concept drawings have become accessible and consumer-focussed with imagery deriving from popular culture, music videos, advertising, and popular magazines. Nothing has been published on this new phenomenon, and the time is ripe for a sourcebook for students and style aficionados on the current fashion scene. Martin Dawber presents the work of over 50 of the most exceptional new international illustrators, exploring their methods and influences alongside an insightful quote from the illustrator themselves. Includes contact details and website addresses for each illustrator.
Charlotte Rivers
R349.00
This sumptuously extravagant book examines design that appeals to the senses through luxury, profusion, and excess maximalism. After a decade in which minimalism has held sway over the design industry, many designers are now rejecting the limitations of pared-down modernism in favor of a more rich and vibrant maximal aesthetic. This book celebrates the qualities of maximalism, or enriched modernism its role in creating fantasy, a sense of luxury, the multi-sensory appeal and teaches designers how to apply it by bringing together a selection of projects from around the world that typify maximalism in graphic design whether through use of materials, print processes, layout and composition, or sheer extravagance of purpose.
The book is not just about expensive projects for luxury brands (although of course these feature):
it is about examples of print that appeal to any one of the senses in a powerful and unusual way.
These include packaging, magazines, brochures, books, identity jobs, and other forms of print work.
R Klanten
R492.00
Today, illustration appears in design-related projects in a wide range of styles. One can find drawings done fleetingly by hand just as often as polished vector graphics created on computers. Motifs are not only being produced in pencil, chalk, airbrush and marker but also by mixing media, for example by combining illustration, photography and wallpaper. But when so many alluring possibilities currently exist in illustration, how can one stay up to date and how should one evaluate new developments? "Illusive" is a collection of contemporary illustrations from around the world that addresses the variety of existing techniques and puts them into context with explanatory text. It features personal designs alongside fashion illustrations and commercial works produced for books or magazines - a diversity that reveals how the medium of illustration functions independently from trends. At the same time the book is also a survey of current tendencies and design approaches. Features introducing leading protagonists supplement the examples shown. The fact that it presents manifold methods by such a broad spectrum of international designers side-by-side makes "Illusive" stimulating and educational reading for the professional illustrator.
Catherine Slade
R249.00
This is a comprehensive guide to everything to budding illustrator will need to know. All the basic techniques and materials are covered with topics ranging from acrylic paints and pastels to airbrushing and wood engraving. There is also a useful section on how to become a professional illustrator. This is a highly illustrated book filled with step-by-step instructions, which will guide the reader through the practicalities of dealing with a variety of techniques. It is filled with hints and suggestions for producing professional-looking work. There is also a wealth of creative ideas, which will enchant and inspire the reader. All in all, this is an easily accessible guide to the field of illustration, which is suitable for artists of all abilities.
Uri Shulevitz
R266.00
A step-by-step guide to creating children's books. The book covers aspects from the preliminary idea to publication, and describes how to tell a story visually, draw characters and develop settings.
Quentin Blake
R175.00
Quentin Blake is one of the most celebrated illustrators in the world today, and the best person imaginable to collaborate on this sketchbook with training wheels. Full of inspirational artwork, instruction and plenty of white space reserved for the artist-to-be, the book comes with an artist quality sketch pen and two watercolour pencils.
Mark Wasserman
R311.00
This book is a powerful reminder that there's more than one solution to every creative problem. Readers will find 37 original projects followed by reinterpretations from top professionals. These re-mixes serve as a creative jolt for those inevitable times when designers need a little extra inspiration. Each section starts with an original design and detailed Q&A-style captions that explain the concept and process behind the design. The following re-designs - ranging from wild freeform creations to more subtle changes - are paired with insightful captions that give readers a rare (and sometimes humorous) glimpse into other professionals' creative thought processes. With page after page full of never-before-seen artwork, this book is the kind designers will pull down from the shelf again and again. It's an essential idea-sparking tool.
Roger Walton
R450.00
How do your find an illustrator to create a piece of work?At present, there are a number of methods: looking through myriad agents' promotional books; browsing annual competition collections; trying to find that pile of unsolicited illustrators' cards you just had on your desk the other day; searching the web -- for a few hours!; or asking a colleague. All of these methods can work, but they're all time-consuming and haphazard.
What if you need someone to draw some salad on a plate with a glass of wine next to it?
You could go through the above processes, and -- after a while -- you'd probably find someone
to draw or paint it in the style you wanted. Or you could pick up "The Big Book of Illustration
Ideas. Flip to the section marked "Food and Still Life" and find pages and pages of illustrators
who can draw all manner of food in all manner of styles: pencil, crayon, watercolor, collage,
and so on, and so on. A smorgasbord of illustration ideas! In fact, within these pages, you'll
find the best illustrators, from all over the world, found together in one place along with all
of their contact details.
Alan Fletcher
R407.00
Describing himself as a "visual jackdaw", master designer Alan Fletcher has spent a lifetime
collecting images, useless information, quotations and scraps that take his fancy. This work
distils this collection into a quirky and entertaining feast for the eyes and the mind. Loosely
arranged in 72 "chapters", the book explores the workings of the eye, the hand and the brain.
Anna Held Audette
R177.00
The drawing projects presented here will satisfy any artist's need for fresh and stimulating approaches to all the
familiar drawing problems, whether the aim is to acquire hands-on skill in familiar problems of space, design and
composition; or to explore one's personal vision. These one hundred ideas were contributed by teachers who have
invented creative alternatives to the tired assignments know to everyone who has studied art seriously.