This concise guide features easy-to-follow steps for capturing the natural beauty and magnificence of trees. Over 100 illustrations spotlight dozens of different varieties, including Oak, Willow, Pine, and Palmetto. Topics includeshading techniques, composition, portraying shadow and light, and approaches to outlining.
Author and illustrator Victor Perard, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was an art instructor at New York City's Cooper Union fortwenty years. This informative volume reflects his extensive teaching experience and provides practical advice for artists at every...

Second in importance only to the face, hands play a key role in expressing emotional states--from anger and fear to resignation, serenity, and surprise. This resource features more than 1,000 illustrations, offering figure artists at all skill levels insights into the structure, character, and expression of hands.
Artist and instructor Victor Perard emphasizes the anatomy of the hand: the bones that make up its framework and define its proportions and the muscles that direct its actions. In addition to notes on proportion and perspective, he groups the illustrations of hands in a manner...