"Starting with a simple circle, this easy-to-follow book shows you step-by-step how to create 50 fantastic drawings. Watch as a circle becomes a roly-poly panda, a crime-fighting superhero, a hot air balloon, a hungry dinosaur and lots more fun characters and wacky animals"--P. [4] of cover.
Your 40-day guide to experiencing more passionate, persistent, intimate communication with God. Do you pray as often and as bravely as you want to? Are you looking to strengthen your relationship with God and experience a deeper, more intentional prayer life? Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker, is here to teach you all about a new, life-changing way to pray. After the release of The Circle Maker, thousands of readers quickly became many tens of thousands, and soon enough, true stories of miraculous and inspiring answers to prayer began to pour in. Draw the Circle shares these inspiring testimonies and combines them with timely scriptures and daily prayer prompts designed to stir you to pray like never before. Through these moving stories and encouraging devotionals, you'll learn all about: The life-changing power of intentional prayer Why prayer is such a crucial aspect of your relationship with God How to start applying the principles of The Circle Maker in your everyday life How to stay humble, patient, and focused as you start your 40-day journey Building prayer habits that will support your faith for a lifetime There's a way for all of us to experience a deeper, more passionate, persistent, and intimate prayer life. Batterson invites you to begin a lifetime of watching God work, believe in the God who can do all things, and experience the power of bold prayer and even bolder faith. Let Draw the Circle be the first forty days on your way to a lifetime of watching God work and believing in the God who can do all things.
"Starting with a simple triangle, this easy-to-follow book shows you step-by-step how to create 50 fantastic drawings. Watch as a triangle becomes a peanut-loving elephant, a cackling witch, a rocket ship shooting through space, a friendly dragon and lots more cool characters and goofy animals"--P. [4] of cover.
Have your prayers become stagnant? Do you long to see God move in fresh ways? Are you ready to move to new places in your walk with God? If so, it's time to take the 40-day prayer challenge... In this five-session video study (DVD/digital video sold separately), bestselling author and pastor Mark Batterson reveals how taking up this prayer challenge will not only change the way you pray today but also dramatically impact the rest of your life. This study will help you: Draw your prayer circle around the things in your life where you want to see God's work. Form a broader prayer circle with other believers in Christ. Challenge yourself to persistently depend on God. Witness the miraculous results in your life, your church, your community, and your world that only God can bring. While this challenge won't be easy, and you will certainly experience setbacks along the way, as you pray through you can be assured that God will come through for you in new and exciting ways. Miracles that happen in your life decades from now will trace their origin back to this season of prayer, and breakthroughs that occur will become generational blessings that will live on long after your time on earth is over. Join with the more than half a million people who have already accepted this 40-day challenge to pray like never before. The Draw the Circle Study Guide includes video discussion questions, personal reflection questions, and daily devotional readings for each of the 40 days in the challenge. Sessions include: Drawing a Circle Dream Big Pray Hard Think Long The Ripple Effect Designed for use with the Draw the Circle Video Study (9780310094685) sold separately.
Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find: Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing 75 student examples to encourage you in the process
Louise Belinda Bellflower lives in Rochester, New York, in 1896. She spends her days playing with her brother, Joe. But Joe gets to ride a bicycle, and Louise Belinda doesn’t. In fact, Joe issues a solemn warning: If girls ride bikes, their faces will get so scrunched up, eyes bulging from the effort of balancing, that they’ll get stuck that way FOREVER! Louise Belinda is appalled by this nonsense, so she strikes out to discover the truth about this so-called “bicycle face.” Set against the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, Born to Ride is the story of one girl’s courageous quest to prove that she can do everything the boys can do, while capturing the universal freedom and accomplishment children experience when riding a bike.
Learning to Draw Has Never Been So Easy! Christopher Hart is the world's best-selling author of how-to-draw books. He has taught millions of people to draw anime, cartoons, the figure, and much more. In You Can Draw Anything!, he uses his signature approach to teach you how to draw more than 50 fascinating subjects. You'll gain the tools to tackle any drawing you like, from people, to animals, to magical creatures, to landscapes. Draw for a few minutes a day or a few minutes a week. Either way, your skills will improve with every lesson, and you'll pick up valuable techniques you can use to draw...anything! Book jacket.
A welcoming drawing guide for creating beautiful worlds and wondrous wildlife from bestselling artist Johanna Basford Through her bestselling coloring books and distinctive illustrations, Johanna Basford’s beautiful forests, ocean depths, and hidden magical kingdoms have enchanted millions of people around the world. In this lovely and accessible guide, she shares the fun, simple, no-skills-needed secrets to creating your own wondrous realms through fanciful, expressive line drawing. With step-by-step exercises, inspiring prompts, and still plenty of pages to color, you’ll be free to let your creativity run wild. How to Draw Inky Wonderlands invites you to develop your personal drawing style and master creating marvelous creatures and landscapes using only the pen or pencil in your hand and the wildest reaches of your imagination.
In the 1920s and 30s, French artist Robert Lambry (1902–1934) created a series of charming step-by-step lessons for drawing for a weekly children’s paper. Now, almost 100 years later, his beautiful lineworks will guide you to drawing perfection. With over 150 easy-to-follow drawings, this visual reference book offers instructions for drawing animals, people, plants, food, everyday objects, buildings, vehicles, clothing, and more. In Lambry's stylistically vintage form, drawing is easy and the outcome is timeless. From apples to airplanes and zebras to zoo animals, the book makes it easy to draw just about anything! Lambry breaks down the process of drawing into a series of simple shapes and lines, enabling you to recreate even the most complex things in just a few steps. Use the no-slip, woodfree pages to copy the wonderful art. The simple step-by-step illustrations make this book perfect for beginners or experienced artists looking for quick sketching techniques. The content is perfect for illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic artists who need to create storyboards with simple ideas. It also includes prompts and practice pages for perfecting your artwork. You won’t be able to resist the temptation to pick up your pencil, follow these elegant examples, and learn to draw everything the Lambry way.