Penguin Books Australia

An inspirational guide to drawing plants.

An intimate understanding of botany will help any artist create vibrant and realistic art. Sarah Simblet's masterclass provides you with an awareness and appreciation of plants and flowers and shows how to apply that knowledge to your art.

Vitamin D offers a fresh and pioneering overview of the current state and underlying significance of drawing as an artistic medium. It highlights the originality and innovation with which contemporary artists in the genre - from across the world and in a vast variety of contexts - experiment with a diversity of styles and statements.

Heather Arnold provides a comprehensive guide to drawing and painting New Zealand birds such as the kiwi, the kingfisher, the New Zealand pigeon and the kakapo from start to finish in pencil and paint mediums. The introductory matter covers materials, drawing skills, techniques and a section on light. Each section gives step-by-step instructions, as well as tips on how to render particular techniques...

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life. But can you look afresh at the place where you live? Over the past year he has immersed himself in his home city to try to find out. His days have been spent drawing and painting it: the surprising expanse of its changeable skies and the crushed closeness of the tube, as well as the hidden places and unique people from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead...

Writers and illustrators alike will find in this Complete Idiot's Guide® the best overall introduction to the world of graphic novels.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing People Illustrated features more than 400 illustrations in a two-colour interior and expands upon the drawing book s success and ease-of-use, but focuses entirely...