How comforting it can be to sit down with a coloring page and express yourself through color. That quiet time to create, explore, and just be is something we all need now and then.We hope How to Draw Patterns, a colorful step-by-step guide, becomes a fun and friendly companion on your creative journey. It’s here to remind you that coloring can be a playful way to express your thoughts, your feelings, and your one-of-a-kind style. No pressure. Just go with what feels right.Inside, you’ll discover:A spacious 8.5 x 11-inch format for a clear and comfortable creative experienceA vibrant, full-color guide that makes learning patterns easy and funStep-by-step instructions to help you explore different textures and effectsPlayful designs including doodle patterns, water effects, and morePlenty of space to experiment and let your imagination run freeTake your time or dive right in. Whether you're exploring new techniques or simply enjoying the creative flow, we hope this book brings you calm, joy, and a little spark of creativity anytime you need it. Read more

GIFT IDEAS CRAFTS & HOBBIES CALLIGRAPHYHello there crafty friends of mine! I’m Kristin - mama to the most incredible little human around, graphic designer, hand letterer, and creator of June & Lucy. I love the 4 C’s in my life: cats, coffee, couches, and cooking, and as you can tell from my Instagram captions, I think I am much funnier than I probably am.My goal with this book is to help you avoid the countless months of research, trial and error, and mistakes that I made along the way, by giving you a straight forward, easy to understand explanation of the process behind hand lettering so that you can start your lettering journey with a strong foundation.I can’t wait to see what you beautiful people create!Product Details:Premium matte-finish cover designHigh quality 60lb (90gsm) paper stockLarge format 8.5" x 11.0" (21.5cm x 28cm) pages Read more

'Colour your way to inner peace.' Daily ExpressThis isn't just a book; rather, it is a magical portal to many wondrous worlds. Within these pages you'll find tree-top castles, floating islands and fairytale villages, all waiting to be brought to life in your colours. Go on an adventure and let your imagination roam from world to world, discovering enchanted sea turtles, curious cats and lost song birds along the way.In this new colouring book, Johanna Basford lends her signature style of inky illustration to a series of brand new inkscapes and themes, all with a sprinkling of her much-loved botanicals. Get ready to discover a whole new world of colours. Read more

How to Draw Cool Stuff shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence. These pages will guide you through the basic principles of illustration by concentrating on easy-to-learn shapes that build into complex drawings. With the step-by-step guidelines provided, anything can become easy to draw.This book contains a series of fun, hands-on exercises that will help you see line, shape, space and other elements in everyday objects and turn them into detailed works of art in just a few simple steps. The exercises in this book will help train your brain so you can visualize ordinary objects in a different manner, allowing you to see through the eyes of an artist. From photorealistic faces to holiday themes and tattoo drawings, How to Draw Cool Stuff makes drawing easier than you would think and more fun than you ever imagined! Now is the time to learn how to draw the subjects and scenes you've always dreamt of drawing.How to Draw Cool Stuff is suitable for artists of any age benefiting everyone from teachers and students to self-learners and hobbyists. How to Draw Cool Stuff will help you realize your artistic potential and expose you to the pure joy of drawing! Read more

This book will make your coloring journey more fun and easier!Discover a refreshingly new coloring experience with this "Color By Line" coloring book. Featuring vibrant lines that guide you through the illustrations, it makes the coloring process both easier and more enjoyable.You can choose to follow the suggested colors, letting the pre-colored lines be your creative muse. Or, unleash your imagination and experiment with any colors you prefer. Let your imagination roam freely as you color these beautiful and stress-relieving illustrations!30 artistic illustrations to add your own artistic touch.Creative drawing for stress relief and relaxation.Suggestions to make your artworks more enjoyable.An ideal gift for friends, family, and beloved ones on holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, or special occasions. Read more

Create fun and easy drawings in less than 5 minutes – without any prior sketching or drawing experience!Unlock your creative potential with this interactive book designed for both kids and adults. Inside, you'll find a treasure trove of over 1000 fun and easy drawings. Let Amanda be your guide as she leads you through detailed step-by-step instructions for each design, offering two variations to choose from.Begin your artistic journey with the essentials of drawing, learning strokes, geometric shapes, and simple objects. As you practice, you'll enhance your mind-muscle connection and sharpen your motor skills. Start by recreating your first drawings and then progress to more detailed designs, with three difficulty levels to challenge yourself. Whether you're at home or on the go, all you need is a pen or pencil and a piece of paper to hone your drawing skills anytime, anywhere!Each drawing can be completed in under 5 minutes, making it perfect for those short bursts of creativity. With an impressive variety of over a thousand designs, you can mix and match drawings to create your own imaginative worlds. From people and animals to plants, flowers, cars, ships, airplanes, buildings, emojis, and more, there's something for everyone within these pages.The original, German version of this book is a Spiegel Bestseller.Discover the joy of drawing as you master over 1000 super accessible, fun, and easy designs:Warm-up exercises specially designed for untrained and shaky hands.Clear instructions with 4 to 5 steps per design, ensuring simplicity and ease of understanding.Each drawing comes with two variations, a simplified, and a more detailed version.Designs are divided into 3 difficulty levels.Each drawing is accompanied by both British and American spellings.For both children and adults.Immerse yourself in a vast array of subjects, unleashing your creativity with endless possibilities.Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to improve your drawing skills. Dedicate just 5 minutes a day to this interactive book and witness your artistic abilities flourish. Order your copy now and unlock the world of drawing! Read more

Forget drawing inside the lines and unleash true creativity! This reverse colouring book is packed with colourful, watercolour-filled pages of inspiring shades and free-form shapes that beg to have lines drawn around them, inside them, throughout them. Sophisticated or silly, patterns or pictures - how you fill in the page is up to your creative mind!The book has the colours, you draw the lines: the creative possibilities are endless! Reverse colouring is a totally new idea in creativity and mindfulness: so simple, and so profoundly satisfying. Artist Kendra Norton created these beautiful and whimsical unfinished watercolours to provide a gentle visual guide for your own creativity and exploration. Trace the shapes, draw in figures, doodle, shade, cover an area with dots. Each page is an invitation to slow down, let your mind drift, and be surprised by your own creativity. And because reverse colouring requires no "staying inside the lines," it empowers your artistic self-confidence while it calms the mind. The Reverse Colouring Book™ includes 50 original works of art, printed on sturdy paper that's single-sided and perforated. All you need is a pen. Read more

High-quality A4 plain sketchbookPerfect for unleashing creativity through drawing, colouring, and doodlingLarge size provides ample space for artistic expression and explorationEncourages fine motor skills development and imaginative thinkingIdeal for home, school, or on-the-go useGreat for kids of all ages, from beginners to budding artistsPromotes self-expression and boosts confidence in young artistsVersatile and adaptable for various art projects and techniquesA fun and engaging way for children to express themselves visuallyScreen-Free Fun! Read more

Draw your favorite Star Wars characters!Draw Yoda, Darth Vader, R2-D2, and more, with this fun and easy-to-follow illustration guide! Featuring all your favorite characters in a variety of styles and poses, these step-by-step instructions will have you drawing like a pro in no time! Read more

Explore creativity while learning how to draw lively, unique sketches of your favorite houses, shops, landmarks, and other buildings. Learning to sketch can be intimidating, especially when drawing subjects like architecture that seem to rely on perfect perspective, straight lines, and complex forms. In Housesketching, artist and instructor Albert Kiefer (Housesketcher) shares his signature techniques that will enable and empower you to abandon perfectionism and learn to sketch and express yourself creatively, like his tens of thousands of students have done. Whether you work in pen and ink and alcohol markers like Albert, or use your favorite medium, you will learn how to create amazingly expressive drawings. From his whimsical linework to his playful use of perspective to his energetic colorwork, Albert’s approach can be applied to any type or style of building—or any subject at all! Housesketching shows how to go beyond representation to create sketches that are evocative, vibrant, and completely unique.   With this encouraging guide, you will learn how to:   Find inspiration and choose subjects to sketch—either en plein air or from photos Compose your sketch with placement, contrast, techniques for guiding the eye, and balance Use perspective—but only as much as you need to know!—to create a convincing sketch Make a sketch your own through editing, exaggeration, point of view, and creating a back story Use color and details to finish and embellish your sketches Share your sketches online  Fifteen step-by-step projects take you through Albert’s process in detail, so you can sketch alongside him and learn what makes his drawings so dynamic. QR codes link to videos that provide further insight into essential techniques. Whether you’re completely new to sketching, interested in learning to sketch architecture, or looking to draw more expressively and creatively, Housesketching will give you all the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need. Read more

Find inspiration for your next tattoo in this awesome collection of simple line designs!Getting a new tattoo can be a big decision, and choosing the right design is not always easy. This curated selection of over 1000 simple line tattoos can help you find the perfect pattern for your next ink masterpiece.Over 1000 unique designs (no duplicates)Great gift idea for anyone who loves tattoosIdeal for tattoo studios to help inspire clients Read more

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t come easy.Take your art PLUS ULTRA!! with My Hero Academia: The Official Easy Illustration Guide. Mika Fujisawa is here to teach you the quickest and most fun way to draw your favorite heroes, whether you’ve never picked up a pencil or you’re already a manga master! Read more

A practical guide to drawing and painting beautiful Islamic botanical patterns. The ancient art of Islamic pattern is steeped in tradition, with dazzling motifs inspired by geometry and nature. Islamic biomorphic patterns are the floral, organic and flowing designs that usually sit within a geometric frame and are often referred to as Nabati, Arabesque, Islimi or Rumi. These patterns can be found on anything from grand architectural monuments to illuminated manuscripts. In this practical guide, learn how to analyse 12 patterns from the Islamic world, such as Iznik ceramics from Turkey and mosaic tiling from Uzbekistan, and draw them with a combination of geometry and freehand technique with the help of clear step-by-step diagrams. Experienced artist Dr Esra Alhamal then guides you through the process of preparing your paper, outlining with ink and exploring both contemporary and traditional painting methods with watercolour or gouache. The book also demonstrates how to make and paint with shell gold to create stunning Islamic illumination.Soon you will have the knowledge to understand how these biomorphic patterns came to be and will gain the skills to recreate the designs and paint them beautifully. Read more

Admired for its beauty, grace and fluidity, copperplate calligraphy is perhaps the most popular writing style for social correspondence. This practical guide teaches students to handle the alphabet, numbers and punctuation, color and paper; how to write simple paragraphs, quotations, poems, cards, invitations and more. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Read more

Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide covers the essential aspects of pen and ink drawing and more. It explores basic materials and instruments; fundamental properties of strokes and pen control; key elements of shading; and indispensable techniques for creating vibrant textures. As a bonus, a chapter is devoted to what the author refers to as, the secret Line of Balance. This book is not just written to instruct but also to inspire enthusiasts of pen and ink and drawing as well. Read more

A brand-new edition of the world’s most widely used drawing instruction book, expanded and updated with more than 50 per cent new material.If you enjoy sketching but feel stuck at a childlike level, this classic handbook will give you the drawing skills you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist, it will improve your confidence and deepen your artistic perception. As well as giving detailed advice on how to draw anything you want – including ways to step from black-and-white into colour – Edwards exploits recent developments in brain research to show how drawing skills can be used in the corporate world, in education, and even in problem-solving.Since it first appeared more than 20 years ago, this book has helped millions of people perfect their drawing skills. It can work for you, too. Read more

Connect the dots to calming, mindful and meditative mandalas. These intricate, hand-drawn and mesmerizing mandala dot-to-dot for adults will help you unwind, relax and focus your mind on the present. As you join the dots, the beautiful patterns revealed are rewarding, fun, help relieve anxiety and promote stress relief.Unwind and unleash your creativity with each inspiring and challenging illustration. Watch as each pattern takes shape, leaving you with a deep sense of accomplishment and pride.Discover the joy of our adult dot-to-dot books as you become immersed in the intricate designs and experience the satisfaction of bringing each to life, one dot at a time. Each completed image can also be colored-in and framed to create a beautiful piece of artwork to display. ★ Mindful Dot-to-Dot Book For Adults★ Extreme Dot-to-Dot Patterns★ Beautiful & Intricate Mandalas★ Perfect Dot-to-Dot & Coloring Book for AdultsYou may also enjoy: Dot To Dot Marvellous Mandalas & Creative Crystals: Intricate Anti-Stress Designs To Complete & Color. Read more

Calling all horror fans! Step into the beautiful, macabre world of François Gautier.Colour your way through the grim and gruesome world of Dark Art. Featuring elaborately detailed black line artwork of undead clowns, haunted skulls, bleeding hearts and many other spine-tingling creations, this sinister and beautiful book is perfect for all horror fans with a taste for the macabre.Use colour to bring life (or death) to the intricate and unique pieces throughout. They’ll leave you dying for more…. Read more

A comprehensive and practical guide full of advice and inspiration for anyone wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape.This hands-on and inspirational book will encourage you to meet the exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a variety of media and a wide range of techniques, including pencil, pen, graphite powder, watercolor, water-soluble pencils and Indian ink. As you work through this book, you will look at materials and their qualities then move on to explore how to put these materials to best use when drawing specific types of buildings. You will be led gently through levels of learning, with easy and more challenging exercises progressing your knowledge and developing your skills. Detailed artworks in a range of styles and media are thoroughly annotated to demonstrate key techniques and important details and there are invaluable exercises for understanding perspective, negative and positive space, tone, choosing details and constructing large-scale images. The book includes thorough studies of a wide range of different architectural styles, from town houses to rural cottages and barns, from churches and classical architecture to continental cafes and street scenes. Richard Taylor's exquisite drawings and paintings demonstrate the quality of the results that can be achieved by following his helpful guidance and advice. Read more

Using simple exercises, rediscover the pleasure you got from childhood drawing, before you became too self-conscious and self-critical to enjoy it. As we grow up, somehow we learn that drawing is hard and there are all sorts of rules about colour and perspective that stifle our creativity. This book is here to remind you of the joy you once found in creating, scribbling, getting something down on paper—and that it’s more about the process than the result. This accessible guide takes you by the hand, breaks down the barriers to sketching, and shows you how to build your confidence and skills to draw spontaneously, with nothing more than the things around you for inspiration. Through a series of simple exercises, you will learn how to sketch everyday items, people and places, using simple watercolour techniques to add colour to your sketchbooks. Read more