Whether you just like create masterpieces for the world to see or doodles to be kept in a draw you are an artist 🙂

– Here are some gift ideas for the reading artist in you or your loved ones for under $50. –

 

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The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression –
The definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organized, easy-to-use format.

The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression

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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul –
The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that “explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist,” (The New York Times) with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketing.

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul

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The Artist’s Complete Guide to Drawing the Head –
Master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modeling technique of chiaroscuro (Italian for “light and dark”) developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance.

The Artist’s Complete Guide to Drawing the Head

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The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated –
The Artist’s Handbook has become indispensable for thousands of practicing artists and art students.

The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated (Reference)

 

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Anatomy for the Artist –
Sarah shows us how to see inside the human frame, to map its muscle groups, skeletal strength, balance, poise, and grace. Selected drawing superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure.

Anatomy for the Artist

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The Manga Artist’s Workbook –
You’ll learn the fundamental proportions of the manga face and figure, how to draw those large sparkling eyes, and how to create hairstyles and costumes that make each character unique.

The Manga Artist’s Workbook: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters
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Art Galleries & Artists of the South –

Art Galleries & Artists of the South

 

 

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