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  • The New Creative Artist by Nita Leland

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    I received a review copy of The New Creative Artist: A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit by Nita Leland from North Light Books. Leland is the author of several popular books including Exploring Color, Creative Collage Techniques, and The Creative Artist, her first book, of which The New Creative Artist is a considerably revised…

  • Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson

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    I received a review copy of Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson from F+W Publications. Bert Dodson is a painter, illustrator, teacher and author whose previous book on the subject of drawing, Keys to Drawing is a standard in the field of popular “how to draw” books. In a vein somewhat similar to…

  • Drawing Dinosaurs with David Krentz

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    I was one of those lucky kids who didn’t “outgrow” my fondness for dinosaurs, or drawing them, as I grew older. They are amazing animals in many ways, and their variation in size, wildly bizarre appearance and astonishingly exaggerated forms make them as much of a delight to draw now as they did when I…

  • Pencils!

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    It’s often said that the greatest joy comes from the simplest things. In these days of gel pens, precision markers, synthetic brushes, high-tech plastic paints and digital painting software, it’s easy to overlook the humble pencil, which was actually something of a technological marvel itself at one time. Pencils were created after the first major…

  • Art Out Loud

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    There are a number of illustrators and artists who have posted demonstrations of their painting techniques online, but how much better it is when you can see artists demonstrate their working process in person. Art Out Loud is a series of demos at the Society of Illustrators in New York, conceived and arranged by Tor/Forge…

  • Daniel Dos Santos

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    Dan Dos Santos is a Connecticut illustrator who has done work for a variety of commercial and editorial clients, including Boeing Aircraft, Scholastic, Ace Books, Penguin, Tor Books, UpperDeck and Wizards of the Coast. His refined realist style allows him to create convincing images of fantastic subjects, including lively dragons, startling monsters, convincing wizards and…