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Fashion Illustration Art: How to Draw Fun & Fabulous Figures, Trends and Styles

Jennifer Lilya · North Light Books
Format: Book

From the clothes to the pose, here's everything you need to create fierce fashion illustrations.Create fabulous fashion moments! Drawing on 20+ years of fashion illustrating experience, Jennifer Lilya uses acrylic paint and black ink to show you how to draw the clothes, poses and attitudes...
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Polaroid: The Complete Guide to Experimental Instant Photography

Rhiannon Adam · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A complete, intuitive, step-by-step guide to experimental instant photography techniques and the manipulation of Polaroid prints and camerasThe cult of Polaroid photography has ignited the imaginations of photographers across all generations. The immense popularity of recent digital applications...
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The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration: An artist's guide to drawing and illustrating realistic flora, fauna, and botanical scenes from nature

Mindy Lighthipe · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Draw and paint beautiful, vibrant, and realistic birds and botanicals with The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration. Take a sketch and transform it into fine art!The Art of Botanical & Bird Illustration is a guide for contemporary artists aspiring to master shape, color, and texture...
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I See a City: Todd Webb's New York

Todd Webb · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover

An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd WebbI See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons...
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Dear Data

Giorgia Lupi · Princeton Architectural
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings) , who introduces this charming and graphically powerful...
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More Songwriters on Songwriting

Paul Zollo · Da Capo Press
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

Twenty-five years after publishing his original groundbreaking collection of insight and advice from the greatest songwriters to ever grace the airwaves, Paul Zollo releases the much-anticipated follow-up volume. The sequel to the bestselling Songwriters on Songwriting features new, revealing...
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Cosplay World

Brian Ashcraft · Prestel
Format: Print book

Filled with striking images of costume play from around the world, this definitive look at the global phenomenon known as "cosplay" examines its evolution from the fringes of society to the spotlight of modern culture. For over 100 years, men and women around the world have been...
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Celtic Calligraphy: Calligraphy, Knotwork and Illumination

Kerry Richardson · Search Press; Spi edition
Format: Print book

With this book you will learn how to write the beautiful calligraphy that we associate with Celtic culture, and be taught how to develop scripts that are based on original medieval manuscripts into lovely projects to treasure. Starting with the materials you need and basic calligraphy techniques,...
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The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

Andy Cohen · Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent wordsAs a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed...
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Dancing with Myself

Billy Idol · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, Ive put it all down, every bit from the heart.Im going out on a limb here, so watch my back. —Billy Idol...
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On Power

GENE SIMMONS · Dey Street Books
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Gene Simmons, KISS front-man, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, and master of self-invention, shares his philosophy on power - how to attain it, how to keep it, and how to harness it as a driving force in business and in life.YOU CAN HAVE POWER.YOU DESERVE TO HAVE POWER.GENE SIMMONS IS HERE...
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Happy Hand Lettering: Simple Calligraphy Techniques to Bring Your Words to Life

Jen Wagner · North Light Books
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Create a More Beautiful World with a Little Hand-Lettered Love! Messages from your own hand are an intimate and powerful means of expression and communication. Happy Hand Lettering offers you instruction and encouragement to begin creating beautifully written words right away. From selecting...
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Zen and the Art of Recording

Mixerman. · Hal Leonard
Pages: 291
Format: Book

(Book) . In this book, the third in the Zen and the Art Of series, Mixerman distills the inescapable technical realities of recording down to understandable and practical terms. Whether musician or self-taught recordist, whether at home or in a full-blown studio complex, you'll discover...
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Never a Dull Moment: 1971--The Year That Rock Exploded

David Hepworth · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A rollicking look at 1971 - the busiest, most innovative and resonant year of the 70s, defined by the musical arrival of such stars as David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Joni MitchellOn New Year's Eve, 1970, Paul McCartney told his lawyers to issue the writ at the High Court...
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