Books with author Beverly Shaw Johnson

Beverly Johnson s book is packed with scores of fun exercises that will really motivate young beginner artists who are just getting interested in drawing for animation, comic book art, or just for pleasure. In a series of beginner-friendly exercises, she explores how to conceptualize wonderful, convincing characters and shows how to translate ideas into great professional-looking drawings. The book is organized into key chapters associated with what makes engaging, three-dimensional characters. Read the advice and then work your way through the exercises and you will get to the end with a portfolio bursting with wonderful creations. This book demonstrates how to create diverse characters with strong personalities, unique mannerisms and interests; how to understand their motivations, find their passions and make them come alive. Split into 75, easy-to-follow and fun exercises, Bev leads the young reader through the techniques and skills needed to create their very own characters.

With brilliant and moving imagery, the author draws on fifty summers of soaking up the rural Maritime experience to tell stories set in free verse and ballad lyrics. The reader is invited to take a "virtual road trip" from New England to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, staying a while to enjoy what the little village of Scots Bay and several other tidal bay areas offer to delight the careful observer.While "visiting," tour an early homestead and trace history in an old graveyard. Expect to talk to Red-tailed Hawks, Deer, and Coyotes, especially if the poetry is read aloud. Hear a Bald Eagle urge his youngsters to "fly high."Fog will play a big part in one's impressions of Fundy Bay. On foggy days, the author takes the reader to the beach for rock hunting and other treasurers, or paints a picture of loons or crows or gulls emerging from the mist. However, it is when the fog lifts that the beauty of "the Head of the Bay" is revealed as the highest tides in the world make their impact on daily life. Surviving Nor'easters and major hurricanes is only part of the excitement.

With brilliant and moving imagery, the author draws on fifty summers of soaking up the rural Maritime experience to tell stories set in free verse and ballad lyrics. The reader is invited to take a "virtual road trip" from New England to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, staying a while to enjoy what the little village of Scots Bay and several other tidal bay areas offer to delight the careful observer.While "visiting," tour an early homestead and trace history in an old graveyard. Expect to talk to Red-tailed Hawks, Deer, and Coyotes, especially if the poetry is read aloud. Hear a Bald Eagle urge his youngsters to "fly high."Fog will play a big part in one's impressions of Fundy Bay. On foggy days, the author takes the reader to the beach for rock hunting and other treasurers, or paints a picture of loons or crows or gulls emerging from the mist. However, it is when the fog lifts that the beauty of "the Head of the Bay" is revealed as the highest tides in the world make their impact on daily life. Surviving Nor'easters and major hurricanes is only part of the excitement.