Books in the Beginner's Guide series

Delve into the world of digital painting on an iPad with step-by-step tutorials, hints, and tips from professional artists.

Invaluable tutorials and insightful tips make Beginner's Guide to Fantasy Drawing a perfect start to your fantasy art journey.

Grab a pencil and dive into the exciting world of manga with step-by-step drawing tutorials and expert techniques. Drawing manga and anime-style art is an ever-popular preoccupation for artists, with the promise of intriguing characters, cute animals, and atmospheric scenery leaping from lines on the page. BeginnerâEUR(TM)s Guide to Drawing Manga provides an exciting and engaging introduction to this art style, with even the most basic of tools available to new artists today. The book boasts helpful guides to the tools and techniques needed for successful manga art. It also includes various types of character anatomy, using color, and design techniques that imbue even the most inexperienced artistâEUR(TM)s work with dynamic, believable, and compelling qualities. Step-by-step tutorials allow artists to practise the techniques shown at their own pace, while creating completed compositions that boost both imagination and confidence. Professional concept artists from around the world, working in various creative industries, dream up characters and worlds that are packed with entertaining details and ideas. Finally, sample briefs provide a springboard for readers to explore their own manga and anime concepts.

Voyage into a future where droids, hovering buildings, and space vehicles exist with Beginner‿s Guide to Drawing the Future ‿ an accessible, entertaining introduction to creating science-fiction concepts with traditional tools. Packed with insightful tips, exciting tutorial projects, and essential art theory simply explained by industry professionals, this exciting volume is the perfect launch pad for your journey forward through time.

Meet modern portraiture head-on with this step-by-step beginner's guide to creating stylized portrait, written by the industry's leading character designers.

Unleash the creative power of Procreate to bring characters to life on your iPad, from thumbnail designs to final pose.

A proven, patient approach that will help you understand in detail hundreds of upgrades and take advantage of powerful new features of Windows Server 2003.

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There are a lot of websites, DIY instructions, and blogs out there that will show you the easy way or 'hack' of how to build furniture, but a true woodworker takes skill, knowledge, and practice to create works of art that will last generations. Don't fall for the 'quick' and 'simple' gimmicks. Instead, take the time to learn how to do things the right way. Start with this amazingly comprehensive book that will lead you through several different fields of woodworking. Then learn about the necessary and important tools per field. You will then get an idea of what tools you will need to invest in and you will learn what sort of shop you will need. Some fields require lots of room or even multiple rooms and some only need a desk top and a plug in. Some fields require many tools and some only require a few. You can combine your wallet, space, and interests to find the right hobby for you!Some of the woodworking fields mentioned are:*Dimensional Furniture Making: use dimensional lumber to create all different types of functional and decorative furniture such as; beds, tables, benches, chairs, dressers, and shelves.*Pyrography: using a heated pen to burn wood enough to leave a mark, words or images.*Cabinetry: making cabinets, boxes, and chest, typically with plywood and solid hardwoods.*Log Furniture Woodworking: using whole logs to create unique and rustic furniture such as; beds, tables, and dressers.*Repair and Restoration Woodworking: having extensive knowledge of how wooden items were made though out history and using that knowledge as well as woodworking skills to fix and refinish antiques....And many more! You will also learn about some woodworking techniques like the common types of joinery, ripping and crosscutting on a table saw, squaring rough cut lumber on the table saw, using a miter saw, edge banding plywood, and the different species of woods to use. You will get some tips and tricks from the pros to start out in woodworking and how to stay safe while you work. While technology has really advanced in the safety department, woodworking is still a dangerous occupation and if not done responsibly, can have dire consequences. So, check out this book today and start your new journey out the right way. Discover new ways to create pieces of functional or decorative furniture, wall hangings, dwellings, restorations, and tableware. Learn what tools you will need and how big of space you will need. Learn about a few techniques and tricks and then get out there and start having fun creating!

From robots and spaceships to aliens, Beginner's Guide to Sketching: Robots, Vehicles & Sci-fi Concepts is a perfect book for hobbyists and sci-fi fans.

An introduction to the tools, functionality, and features of Dreamweaver MX. This book helps you discover how to create dynamic Web applications. Filled with step-by-step tutorials, progress checks, projects, and more, it is useful for learning to work with Dreamweaver MX.

Helps to apply the Struts framework. This work offers an approach to learning Struts, and gives step-by-step examples that illustrate each topic. It provides information on how to master view, model, and controller creation, and learn the Struts HTML, bean, and logic tags.

Provides instructions from installing MySQL, manipulating it, and basic reporting, to advanced reporting, interfacing programs, and backups. This book includes an introduction to a database, featuring progress checks, exercises, and Ask the Experts sections in each chapter.

This is a comprehensive introduction to Macromedia Flash, combined with special beginner's-level coverage of ActionScript, Flash's native programming language.

This guide capitalizes on the established pedagogy of the "Beginner's Guide" series and covers areas such as: goals; ask the expert; 1-minute drills; annotated syntax; projects; and mastery checks. The book assumes that the reader does not have previous experience with Cascading Style Sheets.

This fully revised, self-paced learning tool lays out all the steps necessary to get started writing SQL programs quickly and easily.

Filled with hands-on projects, this step-by-step tutorial shows how to use PHP and MySQL to power websites with dynamic content.

New in the Secure Beginner's Guide series, this is the ideal get-up-and-running guide for IT professionals seeking complete yet concise coverage of network security backed by time-tested, professional know-how (and secrets) of a seasoned security professional.

Due to its tight integration with Photoshop, LiveMotion X promises to be a strong competitor to Macromedia Flash in the vector-based animation space. This title assumes that the reader does not have previous LiveMotion or multimedia design experience. It addresses the spectrum of design issues - from analysis to finished product.

An introductory guide to SharePoint technologies. This book provides vital application and implementation strategies. It helps you learn to centrally store documents and Web content, simplify information sharing, create custom dashboards, and enable team collaboration.

Introduces Flex 3 in easy-to-follow modules that allow novices to grasp the fundamentals. This book covers a range of topics such as working with MXML and ActionScript and creating dashboards, mashups, and emulators.

Essential skills for first-time programmers! This easy-to-use book explains the fundamentals of UML. You'll learn to read, draw, and use this visual modeling language to create clear and effective blueprints for software development projects.