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Making Comics
by Lynda Barry
In a new hand-drawn syllabus detailing her creative curriculum, the author has students drawing themselves as monsters and superheroes, convincing students who think they can’t draw that they can, and, most importantly, encouraging them to understand that a daily journal can be anything so long as it is hand drawn.
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Harry Potter - Knitting Magic: The Official Harry Potter Knitting Pattern Book
by Tanis Gray
Channel the magic of Harry Potter from the screen to your needles with the ultimate knitter's guide to the Wizarding World. Featuring over 25 magical knits, this book includes patterns for clothing, home projects, and keepsakes pulled straight from the movies. Projects range from simple patterns like the Hogwarts house scarves to more complex projects like Mrs. Weasley's Christmas sweaters. It also includes fun facts, original costume sketches, film stills, and other behind-the-scenes treasures. This book is sure to have fans everywhere summoning needles, conjuring yarn, and practicing their best knitting wizardry.
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Plus Size Knits: 25 Knitting Patterns for Sweaters & Accessories
by Fox Chapel Publishing
A collection of 25 stylish patterns specifically designed for plus-sized women includes an array of pullovers, cardigans and accessories, in a photographed volume that is complemented by helpful size charts and customizable diagrams.
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Create with Cork Fabric: Sew 17 Upscale Projects; Bags, Accessories & Home Decor
by Jessica Sallie Kapitanski
Elevate your sewing with a bagmaker's secret--cork fabric. Learn how easy it is to work with cork from the innovative designer behind Sallie Tomato patterns. Sew seventeen projects from purses and pouches to gorgeous accessories and home decor. Using only regular sewing tools, you'll love adding cork fabric accents to everything. Cork comes in a rainbow of colors, and it's eco-friendly, maintenance-free, pliable, and hypoallergenic--making it the irresistible choice for all sorts of handmade gifts.
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Creative Struggle: Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity
by Gavin Aung Than
Even the greats had to overcome self-doubt and insecurity to create their masterpieces. Here, their musings on living a creative life are transformed into fun comics that provide a glimpse into their process, acting as inspiration for overcoming your own creative struggle. Featuring creative advice from Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Nikola Tesla, Mary Shelley, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Coltrane, Stephen King, Akira Kurosawa, Hemingway, and more.
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An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake
by Srinivas Rao
The creator of the Unmistakable Creative podcast makes a counterintuitive argument: By focusing your creative work on pleasing yourself, you can increase your productivity, happiness, and (eventually, paradoxically) the size of your audience. Creating for your own pleasure--whether you're writing a novel, composing songs, or painting a landscape--can seem pointless. It's tempting to focus on pursuing money and fame, rather than the process itself. But as Srini Rao warns, creating then turns into a chore that can harm your self-esteem and suck the pleasure out of life, rather than being a source of joy. Rao argues that we should counter this thinking by intentionally creating art for ourselves alone--an audience of one. In this book he shares the fascinating true stories of creatives who took this path, along with actionable tips and the research of creativity experts.
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The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
by Rob Walker
In a world ruled by distraction and increasing demands on our attention, it's never been more important to notice what matters to you. To stay eager, to connect, to find interest in the everyday, to notice what others overlook, these are skills that are both vital and delightful--and this illustrated volume can help you acquire and hone these very skills. The short, playful entries that make up The Art of Noticing include "Look for Ghosts and Ruins," "Look Slowly," "Make It Art," "Compose a Personal Plaque." Here is a book that will provide inspiration to everyone, from the artist or designer developing an aesthetic to the techie looking to disrupt a new market. But, it will be its own joyful reward for anyone, in any walk of life, who takes a chance at noticing.
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The Creativity Project: No Rules, Anything Goes, Awesometastic Storybuilding
by Colby Sharp
Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share. The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and story by some of our most celebrated children book creators. A section of extra story starters by every contributor provides fresh inspiration for readers to create works of their own. Here is an innovative book that offers something for every kind of reader and creator!
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The Spark and the Grind: Ignite the Power of Disciplined Creativity
by Erik Wahl
The world-famous graffiti artist and best-selling author of Unthink—synthesizing the wisdom of other artists, philosophers, scientists and business visionaries throughout history, along with his own personal story—presents a guide to ensuring a constant creativity in everyday life, in and out of the office, that will produce the most innovative work yet.
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
by Austin Kleon
The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books--Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It's exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.
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