Realism Challenge, The

M Crilley author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Watson-Guptill Publications

Published:7th Jul '15

Should be back in stock very soon

Realism Challenge, The cover

Reveals tricks for creating astonishing renderings of common household objects. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques. Mark Crilley's 'Realism Challenge' YouTube videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans.

The Realism Challenge leads artists through Mark Crilley's use of pencil, watercolour, pastel, and gouache to produce life-like, seemingly impossible drawings of common household objects like playing cards, leaves, and seashells that look just like photographs. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques.With over 10 million views and growing, Mark Crilley's "Realism Challenge" YouTube videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans and have been featured on sites such as Yahoo News and Reddit. Now, for the first time, Crilley pulls back the curtain to reveal his artistic tricks and secret methods for creating these astonishing renderings. The Realism Challenge leads artists through Crilley's use of pencil, watercolour, pastel, and gouache to produce life-like, seemingly impossible drawings of common household objects like playing cards, crumpled paper, leaves, and seashells that look just like photographs. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars covering specific techniques-such as rendering drop shadows, applying white highlights, and building from light to dark-that artists can master in order to conquer The Realism Challenge.

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"The realistic work of Mark Crilley is perfectly in step with a zeitgeist that revels in intense, vivid, and urgent reality."
--Comics Grinder 

"What I really love about this book...is it’s simplicity...It offers you the ability to jump right in and get started."
--Destroy the Cyborg 

ISBN: 9780385346290

Dimensions: 232mm x 183mm x 15mm

Weight: 594g

160 pages