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Learn to create detailed, realistic horses in graphite pencil from basic shapes.Drawing: Horses shows you how to render a variety of beautiful horses in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading to develop form and realism. With a wealth of detailed step-by-step projects to both re-create and admire, Walter Foster, with assistance from Michele Maltseff, teaches artists how to develop a graphite pencil drawing to its fullest.With this step-by-step book, Walter Foster renders a variety of horse breeds in pencil and provides tips on adding touches with charcoal, crayon, and brush and ink. He explains not only a number of drawing techniques and special effects but also his own method of developing a drawing. You will learn about various horse breeds—including quarter horse, Clydesdale, Arabian, and Shetland pony—and their proportions, starting with their heads and then progressing to full bodies. And in addition to helpful drawing instruction, Drawing: Horses also contains a wealth of beautiful equine drawings you can both copy and admire! It's a fabulous addition to any artist's drawing reference library.The How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Horses allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

Filled with easy step-by-step instruction from a variety of artists and a wealth of inspiring images to study and admire, The Art of Basic Drawing shows beginning artists how to draw everything from flowers and still lifes to landscapes, animals, and people.You’ll find plenty of helpful tips on choosing the right tools and materials, fundamental drawing techniques, developing value and shading, and setting up an effective composition, as well as important information about the influences of perspective, balance, and texture. Detailed examples of animals, people, flowers, and landscapes will help guide you through the most challenging aspects of drawing almost anything, from basic shapes to realistic details.Some included pencil drawing projects are:StrawberriesBottle and bread still lifeFlamingoElephantGiraffeHorseSiberian Husky puppyEnglish BulldogCloudsDesert landscapeHalf Dome, YosemiteWoman in profileMan in profileand many more!With a striking new design and refreshed, easy-to-understand instruction, this comprehensive drawing guide is the perfect first step for beginning artists. Follow along, step by step, as professional artists reveal their drawing secrets. With practice, you’ll soon be able to capture amazing realism in your own pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.The Collector's Series offers approachable, step-by-step art instruction for a variety of mediums and subjects, such as drawing, oil, acrylic, watercolor, cartooning, calligraphy, and more. Perfect for beginning artists, each title features artist tips for drawing or painting anything and everything from people, animals, and still life to flowers, trees, and landscapes.

The Watts area of Los Angeles is the lurking ground of a terrible robotic monster bent on destroying the weak and taking no prisoners.Black Detective Nicholas Morrow is on the trail of the monster but it always seems to be one step ahead of him,   the monster leaving a trail of destruction behind it!

He didn't want to be invisible! It only happened that way!  Tom Fenton was an unassuming chemistry professor at Millwood University, a sleepy little town in northern California.  On a sleepy/rainy night, he accidentally comes upon a formula: a formula that rendered him invisible!  He is elated, except, there is no remedy; no solution; no antidote to reverse the process! He is stuck in his invisible state! It becomes permanent!  He wants to free himself but no solution can be found. He hides from the outside world.  He becomes a hermit; a wanderer; a recluse; a man cut off from society, and the life he once knew, walking the streets at night. He cannot hide from himself.  He wants so much to return to normal; to be normal! He would do anything to have it again!  Anything! And in the end realizes what was more valuable was his inner self than his invisibility, the thing people saw in him all along.

A crew of five astronauts is sent to Mars,   the Red Planet,   to discover the whereabouts of an alleged area where diamonds are believed to be hidden.    They are led by Black commander Clyde Murray.      He is on his first mission.        It is not an easy task.       While on their search they are side tracked by loud   'cheeeeeeeee'   sounds and oversized footprints as they come in direct contact  with the planet's inhabitants:     a giant scorpion,     giant ant,    and giant serpent who seem to be,   of all thiungs:     guarding the mines.

Frank Bonner is an escaped con on the run from the law.      In Baltimore,   Maryland he boards a bus to avoid being captured.       He ends up in a small town called 'Homerville'  a little town he had never heard of.    During a brief layover he meets and becomes friendly with a little old man at a local coffee shop.    The little old man offers him $500  in cash if he can stay overnight  -  alone  - in  a local house that he  himself  owned on the edge of town.DESPERATE for money Bonner takes the man up on the bet not knowing that it is a feat no one had done before and come out alive!

A 106 year old Black man tells a young reporter a strange tale about how he,      as a young Navy diver in the Atlantic,     came across a sunken city,   lost for generations.      And how he was taken on a tour of it by one of it's remaining inhabitants. . .

A meteor breaks off of it's own orbit and began to hurl it's way towards the Earth at 2,000,000 miles per hour,    it's arrival date to collide with the Earth:     two days!     If it should hit the Earth it would not only cause mass destruction but possibly obliteration of mankind!        Only one man has the know how,     the noodles,   of what it takes to stop it,      Black astrophysicist Doctor Dan Wilson.   He was an award winning doctor.,    an astrophysicist.        He loved looking at the skies.       But no one can find him.        He has given up science     (for personal reasons)     and after a long search he his finally found.       He is almost unrecognizable.          He is  living in a small apartment,    with a long beard,   and long hair         and not in the least bit interested in saving the world:         He is  only interested in sustaining the hermit lifestyle he had seen for almost two years.  .

Black Homicide Detective Nicholas Morrow,   fresh off of solving the Robotic Monster case in Los Angeles,  California finds himself vacationing in New York:     "e;To get away from it all."e;  But just as he is about to rent his golf clubs and enjoy the  N.Y.    scenery,    a series of homicides involving   'ladies of the night'    in the streets of Harlem,   where he was staying,   began to plague and alarm it's citizens.He is recruited by NYPD Harlem Police Chief Normal Ball who happened to hear he was in town to help put a stop to the mangling of young Black women in his city along 127th and Lenox avenue,   a dimly lit part of the city.      The investigation is put almost squarely in his hands.     At firsty it is hard for even he,   Detective Morrow,    to figure why the homicides were happening?      No one could understand why the women,   unrelated to each other were being targeted.      There was no correlation.     The police were at a stand still.Until,   Detective Morrow,   being his undeniable self,     accidentily stumbles upon a possible motive,     and an unlikely suspect;       a suspect he himself and all others involved  cannot believe!      Yet,     all evidence points to him.      And everyone wonders if the man in question,    the suspect in quesion;     of all people was the illusive,     and vicious night stalker,    the person the city was looking for?