Packed with insightful, easy-to-follow tips and featuring a refreshingly diverse range of work from contemporary artists, this is a comprehensive, highly accessible guide that is guaranteed to appeal to aspiring artists of all levels.

Barrington Barber presents a range of projects for the reader to draw, from simple still lifes and full-blown landscape compositions to individual portraits. Beginning with the basics of mark-making, learn how to create sensational artworks in easy steps.

Well-known artist Margaret Evans shows how to unleash the creative power of pastels. She shares her enthusiasm for the medium and her expertise in the properties of pastels, showing how to use underpainting techniques to make the most of them.

This useful resource features a complete drawing course, and teaches both how to draw and how to use drawing materials. The detailed user-friendly instructions cover crucial drawing principles, from perspective to details and a variety of subjects, in both black and white and colour.

The author looks at how master artists have tackled the major elements of drawing such as line, form, texture and composition, and explains how they succeeded. The book covers a broad spectrum of master drawing to inspire draughtsmen of all tastes.

Including over 500 illustrated exercises and drawings, this title provides the aspiring draughtsman with inspiration and practical advice on how to develop the skills.

Artists of all skill levels will find much to inspire them in this detailed and practical guide. Margaret Eggleton takes us through easy to follow drawing stages, and includes advice on using sketchbooks, line and tone, perspective and more. She shows how to draw elements of the landscape such as trees and foilage, hills and mountains, skies, water and buildings, including step by step exercises throughout.

Portraying the face is one of the most interesting yet most difficult tasks for an artist, this book begins with what makes a good portrait, including picture construction, composition and light and shade. It then goes on to teach the anatomy of the head, from an artist's point of view.

This title guides you through the full scope of painting in pastels and explains particularly how they can be used to capture light, colour and texture.

This text focusses on head and shoulder portraits of a broad range of subjects of all ages, in a variety of poses and situations, both formal and informal, exhibiting a range of emotional expressions.