Learning to draw can be intimidating, but all you need is a good teacher. This step-by-step, project-based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing teaches you in the easiest way possible. This all-new guide uses color to show the progression of strokes and techniques for completing 50 fun drawing projects from scratch. It also gives you an introduction to the tools and materials you’ll need to get started.
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.
The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Ellix Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide listeners through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition, and even economics, this is primarily a compendium of practical information – how the processes work; parameters for safety; techniques for effective preservation; troubleshooting; and more.
To provide the right supports for struggling students in grades pre-K to 12, your school team needs a thorough understanding of the skills that contribute to learning—and a systematic way to help students with a wide range of learning difficulties. This innovative planning guide is your key to identifying and prioritizing the essential skills that students with and without learning difficulties need to succeed.
Fully revised and expanded for the first time in a decade, this is Guy Kawasaki’s classic, bestselling guide to launching and making your new product, service, or idea a success. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, small-business owner, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit leader, there’s no shortage of advice on topics such as innovating, recruiting, fund raising, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, websites, blogs, webinars, and conferences that many startups get paralyzed, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they succeed.
This comprehensive text is designed for courses in baking and the pastry arts, yet still accessible to the aspiring home baker.
Small Business Management provides a balanced introduction to both entrepreneurship and small business management with a focus on achieving and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage as a small organization. Current issues including global opportunities, service, quality and technology are highlighted throughout the text.
With over 25 years of experience as a game designer, consultant, and creative director, Andrew Mayer has helped to craft and deliver best-selling titles for companies such as Sony, Cartoon Network, Bioware and many more. Let him help you to navigate the art and process of transforming your brilliant game design into an amazing experience everyone will want to play!
In this book you will find five drawing tutorials (+ one tutorial bonus) with simple explanations, tricks and tips about drawing a lifelike people with colored pencils. Every tutorial consists of 6- 20 steps and short explanation for each step based on the author’s personal experience. Learn to draw a smooth skin with colored pencils (dream of many), to erase the lines of pencil with another colored pencil, to create a highlights, using white pencil over the drawn areas, and so on. All aspects of working with colored pencils are covered, including layering, blending, mixing and building up color.
There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. Crafter’s Devotional can aid that launch. Each day of the year is given its own focus, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates.
Today’s most comprehensive course in residential construction. The complete visual guide to building a house not only lives up to its name, but the detailed illustrations put this reference in a league of its own. It’s your only source for reliable instructions on building a house from the ground up to the finishing touches – and it’s also a good book.
