David Chelsea

Teaches comic book artists about artistic perspective, covering one, two, and three-point perspective, using circles, drawing the human figure, and explaining the horizon and vanishing point

How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork

Perspective! for Comic Book Artists

Presented in a step-by-step graphic novel format, a reference for imaginative professional artists from architects to animators reveals insider secrets on how to achieve dramatic perspectives while providing instructive grids on an accompanying CD. Original.

Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page

Extreme Perspective! for Artists

La maîtrise du dessin en perspective, indispensable à tous les graphistes qui font oeuvre d'imagination, devient réellement accessible avec ce "traité" d'un genre inhabituel. David Chelsea l'aborde par le biais ludique d'une bande dessinée, déjouant ses difficultés par une mise en images immédiate du discours théorique. Vues en plongée et en contre-plongée créées par la perspective à trois points de fuite, effets de raccourci et ellipses... les règles de la représentation des objets en deux dimensions s'éclairciront pour vous, vignette après vignette. A l'instar du jeune Mug, laissez-vous conduire dans un monde peuplé de cubes et d'arrondis, et apprenez à construire des images crédibles ayant une vraie touche professionnelle.

Pour illustrateurs de tous horizons

La perspective expliquée en BD

Acclaimed illustrator and graphic novelist David Chelsea offers up six strange 24-hour comics in one deluxe hardcover volume! Strictly following rules devised by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), Chelsea delivers six inspired improvisations--each drawn in a single day! This collection of Chelsea's work finds the creator stepping into his own surreal sequences, Snow Angel appearing in her first adventure, anthropomorphic romps, and the mystery of the Girl with the Keyhole Eyes! Enjoy Chelsea's witty pun play, hilarious literary allusions, and inventive scenarios! Foreword by journalist Richard Gehr (The Comics Journal, Rolling Stone)! Six 24-hour comics from creator David Chelsea: Snow Angel, Sleepless, I.D., Now Open the Box, The Girl with the Keyhole Eyes, and I Like to Riff.

Sleepless and Other Stories: David Chelsea's 24-Hour Comics Volume 2

Carla Speed McNeil

Howard Chaykin

David Walker

Chuck Brown

Dave Gibbons

Patrick Alexander

Michael T. Gilbert

Neal Adams

As Dark Horse's twenty-fifth year rolls on in grand fashion, so does _Dark Horse Presents_! Issue number two of Dark Horse's landmark anthology features not only the continuations of stories by the likes of Howard Chaykin, Richard Corben, Paul Chadwick, and Carla Speed McNeil, but also the premieres of all-new stories by Patrick Alexander, Sanford Greene, and Robert Love! Don't miss this milestone showcase of the comics industry's hottest talents and most esteemed legends! Exclusive, premier content from established creators as well as exciting new talents.

Dark Horse Presents #2

Richard Corben

Harlan Ellison

Frank Miller

Randy Stradley

Howard V. Chaykin

Paul H. Chadwick

Dark Horse Presents

Using a fun and accessible graphic novel format, Perspective in Action features 33 easy-to-follow demonstrations to teach artists the major discoveries in perspective. Perspective is a fundamental element in the development of art and for understanding spatial relationships, but it is an underserved topic in the world of art instruction. Author and artist David Chelsea takes readers through the major perspective-related developments in history, teaching them how to re-create these same experiments by leading artists in all fields (including drawing, painting, and sculpture). Covering a wide-range of mediums (pen and ink, paint, chalk, digital art, woodwork, and more), Perspective in Action gives readers a more hands-on approach to perspective, as opposed to the usual theoretical presentations found in other books.

Creative Exercises for Depicting Spatial Representation from the Renaissance to the Digital Age

Perspective in Action

David Chelsea creates a superhero like no other: an ordinary little girl who becomes a crime-fighting cherub whenever she makes an angel in the snow! Snow Angel faces jaywalkers, bicycle thieves, menacing dogs, and other dangers! This special, all-ages one-shot also includes "The Kids' Movie"an all-new, four-page masterpiece! * All-ages adventure from longtime _New York Observer_ illustrator! * Fantasy and humor from frequent _Dark Horse Presents_ contributor!

Snow Angel (one-shot)

In Snow Angel, an ordinary but conscientious little girl becomes a crime-fighting cherub whenever she makes an angel in the snow! Snow Angel faces jaywalkers, bicycle thieves, menacing dogs, shoplifters, and the rampaging Sugar Cube Robots! The young rascal can even alter the Earth's polar axis! This full-color, all-ages collection includes the Snow Angel stories that ran in the acclaimed Dark Horse Presents anthology--as well as new adventures from the playful mind of creator David Chelsea (David Chelsea in Love, Everybody Gets it Wrong and Other Stories, Sleepless and Other Stories).

Snow Angel

Sleepless and Other Stories: David Chelsea's 24-Hour Comics

Jimmy Palmiotti

Michael Avon Oeming

Justin Gray

Tony Puryear

Colin Lorimer

Phil Stanford

This issue features the return of Colin Lorimer's _UXB_ and Michael T. Gilbert's _Mr. Monster_! Plus, another Edgar Allan Poe story adapted by Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben and a new short written by Michael Avon Oeming and illustrated by Victor Santos! Crime noir, horror, fantasy, science fictionthis anthology has it all! The _DHP_ conclusion to Tony Puryear's _Concrete Park_! 80 pages! No ads!

Dark Horse Presents #17

Welcome to the Zone

Writer/artist David Chelsea's first six 24-Hour Comics are collected into one volume! Following rules devised by comics legend Scott McCloud, the acclaimed graphic novelist and commercial artist has created six inspired improvisations—each drawn in a single day! This hardcover collection is filled with experimentation, witty pun play, and hilarious literary allusions!

David Chelsea

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