In this book you will find five drawing tutorials (+ one tutorial bonus) with simple explanations, tricks and tips about drawing a lifelike people with colored pencils. Every tutorial consists of 6- 20 steps and short explanation for each step based on the author’s personal experience. Learn to draw a smooth skin with colored pencils (dream of many), to erase the lines of pencil with another colored pencil, to create a highlights, using white pencil over the drawn areas, and so on. All aspects of working with colored pencils are covered, including layering, blending, mixing and building up color.
There is something elemental shared among artists and crafters, regardless of chosen medium: creative energy. Crafters dabble, collaborate, muse, and make, all in their own way and on their own timeline. For all crafts, there are established techniques to follow but wild, innumerable ways to experiment, using the basics to launch crafters to new heights. Crafter’s Devotional can aid that launch. Each day of the year is given its own focus, on which the reader will find a daily dose of craft content that inspires, instructs, and illuminates.
Today’s most comprehensive course in residential construction. The complete visual guide to building a house not only lives up to its name, but the detailed illustrations put this reference in a league of its own. It’s your only source for reliable instructions on building a house from the ground up to the finishing touches – and it’s also a good book.
You decided to become a farmer because you love being outside, working the land and making a difference in the way we eat and farm. And when you decided to become a farmer, you also became an entrepreneur and business person. In order to be ecologically and financially sustainable, you must understand the basics of accounting and bookkeeping, and learn how to manage a growing business.
The complete system of the Trachtenberg method of mathematics which makes possible high-speed arithmetical calculations with a remarkable degree of accuracy. The book is a collection of techniques for carrying out arithmetic operations mentally according to Jakow Trachtenberg’s system.
Discover How ANYONE Can Quickly Become a Strumming, Chords, and Lead Guitar Ninja.
Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Martin Luther King found moral courage while sitting alone at his kitchen table one night during the Montgomery bus boycott. Jane Goodall used her intuition in the jungles of central Africa while learning how to approach chimps. Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. But these days, handheld devices and other media leave us awash with the thoughts of others. We are losing solitude without even realizing it.
Most of the 23 million American men who lift weights do so to get bigger; unfortunately, many of them are going nowhere with watered-down bodybuilding routines that don’t help them actually get stronger. Eric Cressey’s cutting-edge four-phase program, featuring constant progression, variation, and inspiring goals, keeps you focused on increasing strength along with muscle mass, helping you achieve the fittest, most energetic, and best-looking body you’ve ever had-with fewer hours at the gym.
Do you really think Martha Stewart never swept a little dust under the carpet seconds before guests arrived? Oh, how we’ve been damaged by the myth of perfectionism! We are slaves to microscopic specks of lint, hard-water smudges, and the relentless pursuit of dust bunnies. Brainwashed by Hollywood and slick photo spreads, we chase after unrealistic expectations. “How to Cheat at Cleaning” will change all of that. Part how-to bible and part liberating manifesto, this volume rewrites the housekeeping rules our mothers taught us. It does for housekeeping what Casual Friday did for office life. Learn the extreme shortcuts for cleaning your house from attic to basement.
Is there a vegetable boycott in effect in your family? Tempt them with the delicious recipes for hummus, macaroni and cheese, pizza, and chicken pot pie in More Vegetables, Please! and you’ll learn that even finicky eaters are surprisingly easy to reform.
If you’ve ever looked into your fridge, hoping for inspiration to strike, let The Chopped Cookbook help you shake up weeknight dinners. Just as each basket on Chopped has many tasty possibilities, so, too, do the contents of your refrigerator.