Bøger af Walter Foster

Packed with practical advice, helpful tips, and step-by-step drawing techniques, The Art of Drawing People is a comprehensive resource for artists of all skill levels.

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.

Doctor Simon English ***He was a low key history professor who happened to be black, an expert in the Civil War. ***On an average day two strangers came into his office and changed him forever. An organized (and highly secretive) governmental agency wants to send him back on a dangerous mission. He is to go into the year 1865 to play detective and uncover the whereabouts of a lost treasure: a so called 'Last Chance Gold' worth a hundred million dollars by current standards.

"Mayday! Mayday! We're in trouble up here!" came a desparate voice from space. One million two hundred thousand miles from Earth the MARTIAN THREE rocket to Mars began to break up and fall apart. No one knows why one of the finest rockets ever built began to shake and fall apart, only that the Martian landing is out of the question. Suddenly, the only thought is to devise a plan to get the three brave men safely back to Earth!

Jeff Townsend is a successful Black accountant: one of the few in his town. Humble, educated and efficient in his work, he soon becomes bored with the day-to-day of counting funds and often daydreams of an exciting more adventurous way of life. He turns to an elderly Black soothsayer to help him out of his dilemma, only to find that she is way ahead of him and steers him to incredible adventures he could have not forseen!

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. No one has done such a task before. 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.

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, leaving a trail of destruction behind him!

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. . .

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.

Ann Thomas is an attractive lawyer and an African American woman. She has inherited a remote farm outside of Atlanta once owned by her grandmother, a former slave. Unknowingly to her, her grandmother was once in a romantic relationship with a well-to-do African man back in the year 1890. But the romance went sour when Ann's grandmother decided to marry someone else. Things were quiet, and through the years the jilted African man had not forgotten Ann's grandmother. Nearly two hundred years later and in current times, he sees Ann's picture in a newspaper outlining 'outstanding lawyers' and he confuses Ann with her grandmother!Suddenly, he wants her back and he is coming after her, two hundred years later with determination to win her again, and this time he would let nothing stand in his way!

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!

Learn to draw a variety of subjects in graphite pencil from basic shapes. In Drawing: How to Draw 1—which also features contributions by acclaimed artist William F. Powell—Walter Foster invites you into his artistic world and shows you how to draw a variety of subjects. Even if you’ve never drawn before, you’ll be amazed at how quickly and easily you can render just about anything you’d care to draw. With Drawing: How to Draw 1, you’ll learn the principles of drawing, as well as all the materials and tools you’ll need to get started. You’ll begin by drawing simple, familiar shapes and quickly learn to transform them into three-dimensional, lifelike forms using just a few easy techniques. And with simple step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn to draw a variety of popular subjects, including fruits, flowers, animals, human portraits, and even cartoons. With the help of Drawing: How to Draw 1, anyone can learn to draw! Designed for beginners, 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: How to Draw 1 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.