New Releases by Mark Kistler

Tap into the powerfully positive impact of drawing for the whole family with 25 drawing sessions! In March 2020, Mark Kistler received a call that his son's school was going virtual for the remainder of the school year. He began holding daily livestreams, leading half hour drawing sessions for what became hundreds of thousands of kids over two months, giving families a much-needed break from the chaos of the pandemic. Now, Mark brings these stress-relieving, creative outlets to life in 25 original lessons, including: Space Kitty! Dino Ride Parachuting Penguin Singing Shark Ninja Banana—and more! Harnessing the life inspiring and transformative power of the visual arts, Half Hour of Pencil Power brings together parents, educators, and the kids they care for with step-by-step drawing lessons, all of which can be done in a half hour or less. Drawing will help your kid have fun, decrease loneliness, build self-esteem, and increase creativity, and Pencil Power is accessible, imaginative, and oodles of fun for everyone. “Mark Kistler has created a series of wonderful, rewarding and easy (even for me) drawing activities that can help children, teens, and families connect to their inner selves as well as to each other.” --from the Foreword by Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD, author of 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child

These drawing approaches will completely unlock your drawing potential: Buy Now or Miss Out Everyone has the ability to draw, but not everyone can draw well. Because pencil drawing is a combination of theory and proper execution of these theories, it requires a strong theoretical foundation. Although practice makes perfect, a strong foundation in drawing theories and techniques helps to create better drawings. This book is primarily intended for those who are new to pencil drawing as well as those who want to improve their pencil drawing skills by employing the techniques and insights presented here. As a result, anyone can use this book to improve their drawing skills, with the ultimate goal of becoming a better pencil-drawing artist. The goal of this book, which is written in layman's terms, is to promote a better understanding. It goes over the basics of pencil drawing, giving you a solid foundation as well as some helpful hints. This book contains sections on pencil drawing that demonstrate step-by-step how to draw common objects like people, cars, and animals. Drawing is a visual medium, so chapters are kept short to allow for more illustrations and application of drawing theories. I hopes to encourage people to take up pencil drawing as a hobby and to explore their creative side.

"Sharpen your pencils and open your sketchbook; your teacher is waiting."-- Boston Globe Emmy Award-winning and longtime PBS host Mark Kistler is back with You Can Draw It in Just 30 Minutes, the sequel to his hugely popular You Can Draw in 30 Days. Take a 30-minute creativity break and be amazed at what you accomplish! Learn to draw 25 different everyday objects--each completed in just half an hour--with step-by-step illustrations and friendly, personality-filled instructions for each lesson. Inside you'll find: Fun "art hacks": Drawing shortcuts (such as tracing handy objects) make you more productive and efficient in your drawing. Blueprints for quick drawings: You'll learn to find the simple shapes within complex-appearing objects. Long-term techniques: The skills you gain along the day in the individual lessons can be used in more detailed, longer projects. Hundreds of variations: More cartoonish? More realistic? The drawings can be modified for a new work of art every time. In 30 minutes, you'll have a finished drawing. Pick up your pencil and begin today!

Learn to draw CRAZY CARTOONS with America's best-loved art instructor! Emmy award-winning Mark Kistler's super-fun instructional book explodes with personality and encouragement. Now newly expanded, CRAZY CARTOONS is filled with clear, simple, step-by-step instructions on how to draw cool cartoon people and their bizarre buddies--including faces, hands and feet. Plus space to let your own imagination run wild! "Revised, expanded and reissued. Originally titled Dare to Draw in 3-D: Crazy Characters"

Draw cool cartoon animals that POP off the page! America's favorite art instructor Mark Kistler provides simple, clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions. In no time you'll be drawing imaginative animals, sea creatures and bugs. Draw with Emmy award-winning Mark Kistler in three dimensions--create Drooling Dino, Electric Eels, Tearing T-Rex, and more! Now newly expanded for easier learning and sketching, CARTOON ANIMALS is bursting with personality and encouragement. You'll get the inside scoop on drawing the hard parts and inventing your own funny or ferocious cartoon critters. "Revised, expanded and reissued. Originally titled Dare to Draw in 3-D: Cartoon Critters. Collect all four ooks in the Draw! Draw! Draw! series!"

From public television s favorite drawing teacher, a quick, easy, and entertaining drawing method"

Provides easy-to-follow steps and tips on how to draw strange ships, robots, and such imaginative inventions as Rivet the rocking horse, Hovering Hippo, and the Total Tech Transport.

The author brings his unique sense of humor, imagination, recognizable quirky style, and original drawings to a title that shows how to draw funny 3-D animals, bugs, and fantastical beasts. Original.

Cyber-crazy kids can learn how to design wacky and wonderful Web sites with this fun, easy-to-follow guide to the fundamentals, written by public television's favorite teacher, Mark Kistler, and Web master Dennis Dawson. 127 illustrations.

The third book in Kistler's ever-popular series takes children to a new level of adventure and creativity as they join public television's favorite drawing teacher on an A-to-Z journey through the art and fun of making 3-D cartoons. 1,000+ illustrations.

With the same light touch that made his Draw Squad a resounding success, PBS-TV's Mark Kistler enters the third dimension in these step-by-step drawing lessons for kids. As he explains artistic concepts, Kistler peppers his text with jokes, tips, and silly slogans.

Provides a series of lesson on foreshortening, surface, shading, shadow, density, contour, overlapping, and size, and suggests that daily practice is important for developing one's artistic skills.