Crafts and Decorative arts

“Not gonna lie, this is probably the coolest journal you´ll ever see. . . . Wreck This Journal is here to inspire you.” —Buzzfeed The internationally bestselling phenomenon with more than 10 million copies sold—and an excellent holiday gift! Paint, poke, create, destroy, and wreck—to create a journal as unique as you are  For anyone who's ever had tro

A spellbinding colouring book featuring over fifty intricate illustrations from The Illuminated Tarot.

Packed with delicious recipes, natural remedies, gardening tips, homemaking ideas, crafts, and more, this indispensable lifestyle reference from the popular blogger behind Attainable Sustainable makes earth-friendly living fun, real, and easy. Whether you live in a city, suburb, or the country, this essential guide for the backyard homesteader will help you achieve a homespun life--from starting

From simple bouquets and wreaths to impressive tablescapes, Floristry is a modern and practical handbook that will take you through all the essential steps to creating beautiful floral arrangements.

Beautifully photographed throughout, this essential guide demystifies the art of floristry through simple, easy-to-follow ins

The perfect book for budding artists, How to Draw Almost Every Day challenges and inspires you to draw one simple illustration each day of the year. Don't let your artistic aspirations come to an end before they start! Everyone wants to draw stylish, evocative pictures, but between busy schedules, not knowing basic techniques, and simply feeling like their art isn't "good enough," many people qu

Create your own chibi world with fun and adorable step-by-step drawing exercises, including over 60 fantasy creatures and characters featuring different accessories, clothing, facial expressions, and poses. These fantasy creatures and animals will make you squeal with delight! Chibi is Japanese slang for “short,” and the characters in Cute Chibi Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters live up to this

With a wealth of illustrated graphite portrait references and step-by-step pencil lessons, The Art of Drawing Poses for Beginners will help you master drawing realistic human figures in a range of different positions. This helpful 128-page guide reveals the process of drawing the human figure as it pertains to anatomy, proportions, volume, mass, gesture, movement, and expression. From there, dis

With Instagram star illustrator Yoai as your guide, Chibi Art Class will teach you how to create and color your very own super-cute chibi characters!

Take your manga drawings to the next level with amazing outfits and creative costumes. It just takes two details—wrinkles and shadows. In How to Draw Clothing for Manga, you’ll discover how adding a tuck here, a gather there, and hiding some areas in shadow will take your drawings from flat sketches to fantastic illustrations. What you’ll find inside: Basic techniques for drawing a variety o

Learn to draw all kinds of cute dogs doing all sorts of silly things through 75 step-by-step tutorials. Whether you are “team dog” or “team cat,” dogs have idiosyncrasies that we all find entertaining! In Kawaii Doggies, the follow-up and perfect companion to Kawaii Kitties, popular Instagram artist Olive Yong (@bichimao) perfectly captures these moments, including playing, sleeping, eating, dig

Say hello to 20 easy-to-love houseplants and goodbye to life’s stresses as you learn to mindfully care for your plants, and yourself. Plant care is self-care. Spending time with nature reduces stress, anxiety and depression while boosting your immune system, reducing blood pressure, aiding sleep and improving concentration. Plants also remove toxins from the air and release fresh oxygen for us

Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry provides the flower's scientific and common names, characteristics, and historic meanings and powers from mythology, medieval legends, folklore, and flower poetry.For centuries, symbolic flower meanings have fascinated readers, writers, poets, and suddenly smitten couples alike. Extremely popular during the Victorian era, these floriographies flo

Renowned Japanese manga artist, international instructor, and illustrator of the Wedding Peach series Nao Yazawa guides you step by step through all phases of manga drawing, from developing characters to creating a story line and story boards. With this detailed guide, learn every aspect of how to draw manga, including poses, movement, perspective, and props. Starting with rough sketches, you'll

Learn dynamic sketching and watercolor techniques for creating cityscapes, landscapes, figures and faces, still lifes, and more, enhancing the story you want to tell with form, line, and color. Discover incredible methods and tips for creating dramatic street scenes and vivid landscapes, and capturing dynamic figures and graphic architectural details. Artist Alex Hillkurtz—a top Hollywood storyb

From bed head to battle hair, the way you style your manga character’s hair can make or break their look. In this guide, discover hundreds of styles to transform your sketches into amazing illustrations. How to Draw Hairstyles for Manga includes: Detailed information on how hair influences characters and scenes, how it grows and moves, common male and female hairstyles, and more! Step-by-step

With Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters, you’ll learn character design for these popular entertainment genres from renowned concept artist and teacher TB Choi.  Constructing a Character. Build a character right from the start with the basics of human anatomy and proportion. Simplifying Forms for Poses and Gestures. Streamline form to develop effective poses and gestures from a variety

Blousy blooms, speckled branches, rich foliage and delicate petals; nature has the power to inspire and energise, calm and soothe, focus and still. Anna has harnessed this magic with 26 tailor-made combinations of flowers to bring a floral boost to your home, no matter what your mood.With easy-to-find seasonal blooms, found items such as twigs and dried fruit, and any assortment of containers, dis

The therapeutic effects of origami are well known in Japan. By focusing on the experience of creating beautiful paper models, this collection of 15 projects specific to Japanese culture will guide you on a path to connectedness, awareness and improved physical and emotional health. Not only that, the feelings of joy and satisfaction gained from completing a model will produce inner peace and help

A creative toolbox of techniques and ideas to take your painting to a new spiritual dimension. All of nature is permeated by a hidden geometric creative power. From the spiral growth of ferns, fractal branching systems in trees, and symmetries in leaves and flowers: everything in nature is connected and follows universal principles. In this exquisite book, artist Kathleen Hoffman shares her fa

Popular Instagram brush lettering artist, Kelly Klapstein, takes a simple, serene approach to teaching the art of creating beautiful letterforms with easy to use and richly coloured brush pens. Kelly begins by guiding you through the tools you'll be using and the best ways to position the arm, hand and paper.Focusing primarily on the widely popular large brush pens while, also, providing instructi