Best Selling Books by WALTER FOSTER

Just Imagine & Play! On the Farm is an activity book set in a busy barnyard! Kids will love the facts, games and fold-out farm scene. Have you ever wondered what life is like on the farm? Find out with this fun and sunny interactive activity book! Unfold this book, and there''s your stand-up play scene. Customize your farm with the reusable stickers and punch-out, stand-up characters, and you''re ready for action. What kinds of animals you have on your farm and what you grow is up to you! Gather eggs, feed the pigs, milk the cows, plant the crops; it''s never a dull day on the farm! Includes a 48-page activity book with cool facts about farm vehicles and animals, puzzles, and games, plus punch-out characters, reusable stickers, and a fold-out barnyard scene.

Artist Toolbox: Color explains how color captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use color to create personal, expressive works of art. In Artist Toolbox: Color, painters will learn how to create impactful work with an understanding of basic color theory. Topics include the color wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, color relationships, and color mixing. You will learn how color captures mood and to communicate meaning with nothing more than color as you create personal, expressive works of art. Step-by-step projects and accessible technique demonstrations show color theory in action, making this book a useful reference for any beginning artist''s library. The Artist Toolbox series provides easy-to-use reference guides for beginning and aspiring artists. While many instructional art books gloss over important concepts, focusing instead on how to replicate a piece of art, the Artist Toolboxseries breaks down the whats, whens, whys, and hows of each relevant tool or technique, clearly demonstrating its purpose and how to employ it to achieve the desired effects.

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With How to Draw Horses & Ponies, young artists learn to bring these sweet and majestic animals to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for 20 different breeds. Simple instructions make it fun and easy to draw lifelike horses and ponies. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape and progresses, step by step, to a finished piece of artwork, making it easy to follow along. Information about the breeds and fun facts provide inspiration and additional learning opportunities. The breeds include: Hanoverian foal Pinto Welsh Mountain Pony Clydesdale Arabian American Saddlebred Thoroughbred Friesian Shetland Pony Andalusian And more! Just start with a few ovals, circles, and triangles and follow the illustrated steps—you''ll be creating you own amazing masterpieces in no time at all!

Challenge your coloring skills with Color-by-Number: Around the World, an exciting new way to color by number. Take your love for coloring to the next level, while you relax, unwind, and stretch your artistic skills in a variety of mediums, including colored pencils, markers, and crayons. You''ll start your coloring journey with a short introduction detailing a basic color-by-number guide with tips and examples of each medium and then you''ll delve into over 30 unique, color-by-number templates that will allow and encourage you to color and create your own masterpieces. As designs become more complex, you''ll have less numbers, which will provide you with an additional challenge and encourage you to choose your own colors and patterns to complete the design. Need some ideas to spark your creativity? This book is also includes a full-color reference gallery. With more than 30 color-by-number templates to color, beginners and intermediate artists of all ages will be mesmerized by this unique spin on the traditional color-by-number activity book.

"This is a new edition of the 2012 Learn to Draw Disney''s Enchanted Princesses (978-1-93958-114-3)"-- Title verso.

With Drawing: Faces, learn to draw detailed, realistic human faces in graphite pencil from basic shapes. Successfully drawing the human face is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, artistic experiences. With a wealth of detailed step-by-step projects to both re-create and admire, Faces teaches the basics of drawing human facial features with graphite pencil. In addition to the step-by-step drawing projects, Faces includes information on choosing art materials, building with basic shapes, placing proportionate features, defining facial expression, and shading to develop form and realism. Discover how to render a variety of faces with simple instructions and tips on how to adapt your drawings for varied angles and emotions. Acclaimed artist Walter T. Foster shares his personal methods for rendering the human face in all its expressiveness as he introduces tips and techniques for approaching babies, children, teenagers, and adults of all ages. Easy-to-follow demonstrations and helpful techniques for drawing correct head and facial proportions, eyes, noses, lips, and ears make this book a necessary addition to every artist’s library of drawing references. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Faces allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed portrait drawing. Drawing faces can be a challenge, but with this step-by-step guide, you’ll be rendering realistic portraits in no time.

Learn how to draw the Bible story Noah’s Ark! Just follow the simple steps on each page to draw all of the characters in the story, one step at a time. There’s a flip-out drawing pad with prompts, too, and plenty of stickers to help complete the story! It’s easy and fun to learn to draw, especially when there’s a Bible story to read and lots of stickers. In Watch Me Read and Draw: Noah’s Ark, kids will read about Noah, how he built an ark for God, and gathered two of every animal to save them from a great flood. Throughout the story, readers will learn to draw 11 characters from this Bible story, step by step, including Noah, the ark, and some of the animals. Included are drawing instructions for a mouse, a giraffe, a sloth, a squirrel, a whale, a lion, a dove, a zebra, and more! Each page features easy-to-follow instructions so young artists can draw the Noah’s Ark story, one step at a time. Basic shapes that kids will recognize make it easy to follow along and learn how to draw. The flip-out drawing pad also offers drawing prompts and simple shapes for a jump-start, making it enjoyable and fun to draw. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of colorful stickers inside to reward them as they complete the story, and a scene at the end to make their very own! Watch Me Read and Draw: Noah’s Ark is the perfect starter drawing book for kids who love to read and draw.

Teaches how to draw Marvel''s Spider-Man using a basic shapes drawing method.

Challenge your coloring skills with Color-by-Number: Butterflies, an exciting new way to color by number. Take your love for coloring to the next level, while you relax, unwind, and stretch your artistic skills in a variety of mediums, including colored pencils, markers, and crayons. You''ll start your coloring journey with a short introduction detailing a basic color-by-number guide with tips and examples of each medium and then you''ll delve into over 30 unique, color-by-number templates that will allow and encourage you to color and create your own masterpieces. As designs become more complex, you''ll have less numbers, which will provide you with an additional challenge and encourage you to choose your own colors and patterns to complete the design. Need some ideas to spark your creativity? This book is also includes a full-color reference gallery. With more than 30 color-by-number templates to color, beginners and intermediate artists of all ages will be mesmerized by this unique spin on the traditional color-by-number activity book.

Ready to take your drawing skills to the next level? Success in Art: Drawing Hands and Feet allows beginning artists to master the challenges of rendering realistic hands and feet. Drawing realistic hands and feet in graphite pencil is a challenging subject for most beginners. With Drawing Hands and Feet, follow along as you study the common forms of the fingers and toes and learn to create and meld basic shapes to build realistic final art. Discover how light and shadow play an important part in creating muscle definition, expression, and realism. Understand the effect of perspective when choosing and rendering a pose. Drawing Hands and Feet encourages artists to master the individual parts of the form—the pose, structure, values, and shading—before approaching the composition as a whole. More than a basic step-by-step drawing guide, the Success in Art series focuses on subject matter that is often challenging for artists, regardless of skill level. From highly foundational art concepts, such as proportion and perspective, light and shadow, and composition to mastering textures and the human figure, Success in Art covers difficult subject matter in an approachable way using easy-to-grasp techniques and step-by-step exercises.

Challenge your coloring skills with Color-by-Number: Mandalas, an exciting new way to color by number. Take your love for coloring to the next level, while you relax, unwind, and stretch your artistic skills in a variety of mediums, including colored pencils, markers, and crayons. You''ll start your coloring journey with a short introduction detailing a basic color-by-number guide with tips and examples of each medium and then you''ll delve into over 30 unique, color-by-number templates that will allow and encourage you to color and create your own masterpieces. As designs become more complex, you''ll have less numbers, which will provide you with an additional challenge and encourage you to choose your own colors and patterns to complete the design. Need some ideas to spark your creativity? This book is also includes a full-color reference gallery. With more than 30 color-by-number templates to color, beginners and intermediate artists of all ages will be mesmerized by this unique spin on the traditional color-by-number activity book.

Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials covers all drawing media, from graphite and colored pencils to crayons and pastels, as well as their uses and interactions with traditional drawing surfaces. Learn how to work with specific drawing tools, and then use them to create your own artwork. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials first discusses how to create a drawing workspace—in particular, ensuring proper lighting and storage. This guide then details all of the most popular drawing media: the differences between and advantages of each, their purposes, and the effects that each tool can create. The book covers every drawing tool, including all pencil grades, flat sketching pencils, charcoal and vine charcoal, white charcoal, conte crayons, conte pencils, colored pencils, and pastel. Surfaces and supports are discussed as well to provide a thorough introduction to everything you need to learn to draw. Step-by-step drawing projects round out the book. Artist Toolbox: Drawing Tools & Materials provides tips, techniques, clear instructions, beautiful artwork, and detailed demonstrations for a comprehensive look at drawing. This book will make an expert out of anyone who wants to learn this classic technique. The Artist Toolbox series includes useful, practical reference guides designed for beginning artists and art hobbyists interested in fully understanding the focus and function of essential art tools of the trade.

Big School of Drawing Manga, Comics & Fantasy Workbook provides an interactive introduction to creating your own unique characters, allowing beginning artists to practice directly inside the book with approachable step-by-step lessons.

Few artistic subjects can compete with the vibrant, colorful splendor of the ocean and its inhabitants. Now kids can learn to re-create their own underwater world with How to Draw Sea Creatures, where they’ll find easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for drawing 20 different aquatic creatures of all shapes and sizes. Starting with basic shapes and following through, step by step, to finished illustrations, kids will learn to draw a variety of ocean animals, including: Octopus Sea horse Dolphin Shark Puffer fish Sea star Humpback Whale Sea otter Clown fish and many more! Fascinating facts about the featured animals provide additional inspiration and learning opportunities along the way. With How to Draw Sea Creatures, kids will soon be rendering their own astounding aquatic world!

With Learn to Draw Star Wars: Droids & Vehicles, you can learn how to re-create some of the most recognizable machines in the galaxy: the protocol droid C-3PO, the astromech droid BB-8, the Millennium Falcon, and more. Inside this 128-page drawing guide, you will find step-by-step instruction on how to draw Star Wars droids, spaceships, and land transport vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Lucasfilm collaborator and professional artist Russell Walks provides easy-to-follow instructions, insightful character notes, drawing tips, and memorable moments from the films. After a brief introduction to drawing tools and materials, basic pencil techniques, shading techniques, and how to depict different textures, the book jumps right into step-by-step drawing projects. See how each drawing lesson begins with basic shapes, with each new step building upon the last, eventually progressing to a finished fine art piece. Included in Learn to Draw Star Wars: Droids & Vehicles are drawing projects for K-2SO, C-3PO, R2-D2, Luke’s X-34 Landspeeder, the Millennium Falcon, an AT-AT walker, an Imperial Probe Droid, BB-8, a First Order TIE Fighter, and a Resistance T-70 X-Wing. You can also take a closer look along with Russell Walks at how to draw Star Wars technology, R2-D2’s different tools, details of the Millennium Falcon, and the different pilot’s helmets shown throughout the saga. So grab some paper and a pencil, and get ready for your artistic journey through the Star Wars universe!

Manga & Chibis Coloring Book offers a relaxing escape into the world of coloring manga, anime, and cute chibi characters.

In Learn to Draw unOrdinary, aspiring artists will gain superpower drawing skills while learning to draw characters from the WEBTOON Originals series unOrdinary, including John, Seraphina, Arlo, Isen, and more.

Learn to create pet portraits, wildlife scenes, and cartoon creatures with the helpful tips and step-by-step lessons in this comprehensive resource. The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Animals starts with a thorough introduction to the essential tools and materials artists need to get started, including different types of pencils, sketchbooks, papers, erasers, and more. This helpful resource features dozens of comprehensive drawing lessons designed to teach aspiring artists how to draw a variety of animals, from lifelike pet portraits to zoo and safari animals. Artists will discover the fundamentals of drawing and techniques for rendering realistic animal textures, such as fur, feathers, whiskers, manes, and hair; creating volume; shading; developing a composition; and mastering perspective, all with the goal of drawing dozens of lifelike animals in graphite and colored pencil.

Now even the youngest artists-in-training can learn to draw step by step with the exciting I Can Draw series. With these approachable, engaging guides, children ages four years and older will discover how easy it is to draw a range of favorite animals and subjects. Dinosaurs, Dragons & Prehistoric Creatures teaches young artists how to draw a range of scaly and prehistoric creatures, including a triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, saber-toothed tiger, woolly rhinoceros, and more. Dinosaurs, Dragons & Prehistoric Creatures opens by introducing young artists to a small selection of essential drawing tools and materials before moving on to a variety of easy-to-follow step-by-step drawing lessons. Packaged in a softcover binding with 48 pages of colorful artwork, each drawing lesson is specially formatted for a young audience. Dinosaurs, Dragons & Prehistoric Creatures teaches inspiring artists how to draw almost any prehistoric creature by starting with a basic shape, such as an oval, a circle, or a triangle, and following step-by-step instructions to complete a colored masterpiece. With the I Can Draw series, and Dinosaurs, Dragons & Prehistoric Creatures, children will love drawing their way through hours of artistic adventure.

This kit includes all the instruction and materials a beginner needs to start drawing with pencil. Three artists guide readers through a variety of step-by-step drawing projects that teach different techniques and aspects of pencil drawing. Aspiring artists will learn how to begin a drawing by using basic shapes, how to build up form and value, how to create an interesting composition in a landscape, and how to draw a lifelike horse portrait and mythical dragon. The clamshell kit includes a 16-page book with corresponding Spanish instruction, 6 pencils, a sharpener, 2 tortillons, a kneaded eraser, a rubber eraser, and 5 sheets of drawing paper. Warning! This product is intended for use by ages 13 and older and is not intended for use by children.

Learn to draw a variety of subjects in graphite pencil from basic shapes. In Drawing: How to Draw 1—which also features contributions by acclaimed artist William F. Powell—Walter Foster invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to draw a variety of subjects. Even if you’ve never drawn before, you’ll be amazed at how quickly and easily you can render just about anything you’d care to draw. With Drawing: How to Draw 1, you’ll learn the principles of drawing, as well as all the materials and tools you’ll need to get started. You’ll begin by drawing simple, familiar shapes and quickly learn to transform them into three-dimensional, lifelike forms using just a few easy techniques. And with simple step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn to draw a variety of popular subjects, including fruits, flowers, animals, human portraits, and even cartoons. With the help of Drawing: How to Draw 1, anyone can learn to draw! Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: How to Draw 1 allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

Teaches how to draw Marvel Avengers superheroes using a basic shapes drawing method.

Whether you call yourself a tangler, a doodler, or just someone who likes to draw, these 1000 patterns and instructions will sharpen your skills.

Followers of the meditative tangling art form will enjoy taking their tangled designs to the next level with the inspiring prompts and projects in this all-inclusive drawing book and kit.

All About Drawing: Wild Animals & Exotic Creatures is an adventurous addition to Walter Foster''s All About Drawing Series and includes material from the following children''s Learn to Draw titles: Learn to Draw Reptiles & Amphibians, Learn to Draw Rainforest & Jungle Animals, and Learn to Draw Insects. Children will enjoy immersing themselves in the animal kingdom, while learning to draw a variety of wild animals and exotic creatures that run the range from small and slow to fast and ferocious. This fun and educational instructional drawing book opens with a quick look at the materials young artists need to get started, as well as warm-up drawing exercises and art tips. Starting with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or an oval, children are invited to follow step-by-step instructions for completing each drawing project in simple stages, from initial shape to realistic finished drawing. Young artists will learn to draw some of their favorite wild animals and exotic creatures, including a toucan, galapagos tortoise, king cobra, bearded dragon, gorilla, jaguar, and many more! In addition, children will learn fascinating facts about the subjects as they learn to draw them, as well as useful drawing tips to help guide them along the way. With engaging text about each subject, All About Drawing: Wild Animals & Exotic Creatures educates and entertains children as they draw for an enjoyable, well-rounded artistic experience. Whether they''re nature lovers or simply enjoy animals of all species, young artists will love learning to draw these wild animals and exotic creatures.

With the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book, learn how to draw 17 different breeds of cats and kittens by tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing! This interactive drawing and activity book features a variety of cats and kittens you can learn to draw, from Persians and Ragdolls to Bengals and British Shorthairs. Filled with fun facts, quizzes, and puzzles, the Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book provides hours of feline entertainment! Inside, three different drawing methods are featured: tracing, grid drawing, and step-by-step drawing. Five tracing pages are included so you can trace. Then try the grid method—just copy the lines and shapes into the corresponding square on the blank practice grid provided. You will also learn the same step-by-step method used by professional artists: the basic shapes method. To draw cats like the pros do, just follow the illustrations that show how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of artwork. Look closely at the new lines in each step and draw the cat on the practice page provided after each basic shapes project. Find the technique that works the best for you, and draw your favorite cats and kittens over and over again! Plus, learn some fun facts about the different cat breeds as you learn to draw them. Activities include a cat breed word search, a sudoku, and a maze to help a playful kitten find its way to a toy mouse. With fascinating facts, fun activities, and practice pages encouraging you to get started directly in the pages of the book, Cats & Kittens Drawing & Activity Book is the purrrfect book for curious budding artists.

How to Draw Animal Friends provides all the information kids need to begin creating inspired drawings of all their favorite family pets, including step-by-step instructions and fun animal facts. Aspiring artists begin each drawing with basic shapes, then follow the instructions, step by step, to finish with a realistic rendering of an animal. They’ll also discover fun facts about the featured animals along the way. Among the 20 animal friends: Cat Dog Guinea pig Snake Turtle Fish Bunny Frog Ferret Iguana With How to Draw Animal Friends, budding artists will be drawing masterpieces of their favorite pet animals in no time at all!

Unlock the creative magic of the sensational Korean WEBTOON series True Beauty with the step-by-step art tutorials and behind-the-scenes tips in Learn to Draw True Beauty.