How to Draw is for artists, architects and designers. It is useful to the novice, the student and the professional. You will learn how to draw any object or environment from your imagination, starting with the most basic perspective drawing skills.

Early chapters explain how to draw accurate perspective grids and ellipses that in later chapters provide the foundation for more complex forms. The research and design processes used to generate visual concepts are demonstrated, making it much easier for you to draw things never-before-seen

Best of all, more than 25 pages can be scanned via a smartphone or tablet using the new Design Studio Press app, which link to video tutorials for that section of the book

With a combined 26 years of teaching experience, Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling bring you the lessons and techniques they have used to help thousands of their students become professional artists and designers.

This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to learn, or teaches others, how to draw.

A collection of ingenious prohibition-style cocktail recipes for the thirsty imbiber.

Grab your cocktail shaker, you are heading back to the Roaring Twenties. Cloistered behind secret doors, hidden from view except for those in the know, password protected, and only discussed in hushed tones, the idea of a speakeasy is thrilling.

Many Prohibition-era cocktails were inspired by those of pre-Prohibition, but the dubious moonshine whiskies and bathtub gins had to be masked with citrus and fruit juices, ginger ales, colas and other flavours. The result? Some of the most-loved and enduring classics that we enjoy today.

Speakeasy Cocktails is a curated collection of 50 recipes ranging from the iconic Dirty Martini to the zesty Southside and the decadent Manhattan, all organised by era of invention.

With a deco-inspired foiled cover and photography throughout, this is the perfect gift for every cocktail lover, be they a novice bartender or seasoned mixologist.

How to Draw is for artists, architects and designers. It is useful to the novice, the student and the professional. You will learn how to draw any object or environment from your imagination, starting with the most basic perspective drawing skills.

Early chapters explain how to draw accurate perspective grids and ellipses that in later chapters provide the foundation for more complex forms. The research and design processes used to generate visual concepts are demonstrated, making it much easier for you to draw things never-before-seen

Best of all, more than 25 pages can be scanned via a smartphone or tablet using the new Design Studio Press app, which link to video tutorials for that section of the book

With a combined 26 years of teaching experience, Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling bring you the lessons and techniques they have used to help thousands of their students become professional artists and designers.

This book is indispensable for anyone who wants to learn, or teaches others, how to draw.

This book is about the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity; the focus is firmly on helping to improve visual understanding of the world around and on techniques for representing that world. Rendering is the next step after drawing to communicate ideas more clearly. Building on what Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling wrote about in How To Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination, this book shares everything the two experts know about how to render light, shadow and reflective surfaces. This book is divided into two major sections: the first explains the physics of light and shadow. One will learn how to construct proper shadows in perspective and how to apply the correct values to those surfaces. The second section focuses on the physics of reflectivity and how to render a wide range of materials utilizing this knowledge. Throughout the book, two icons appear that indicate either observation or action. This means the page or section is about observing reality or taking action by applying the knowledge and following the steps in creating your own work. Similar to our previous book, How To Draw, this book contains links to free online rendering tutorials that can be accessed via the URL list or through the H2Re app.

Scott Robertson returns with his much- anticipated third collection of sketches, clocking in at a whopping 451 drawings that are sure to amaze and inspire. After a brief hiatus from publishing, the acclaimed designer and best-selling author of How to Draw and How to Render is back to remind the industry why he continues to be a force, with a wide, imaginative range of vehicles represented in the book. From futuristic hot rods and otherworldly rovers, to superhero-worthy sports cars, ocean vehicles and equally incredible headgear, Robertson's latest sketches created during the last three years, are now ready to transport viewers beyond their own imaginations.

This book is about the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity; the focus is firmly on helping to improve visual understanding of the world around and on techniques for representing that world. Rendering is the next step after drawing to communicate ideas more clearly. Building on what Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling wrote about in How To Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination, this book shares everything the two experts know about how to render light, shadow and reflective surfaces. This book is divided into two major sections: the first explains the physics of light and shadow. One will learn how to construct proper shadows in perspective and how to apply the correct values to those surfaces. The second section focuses on the physics of reflectivity and how to render a wide range of materials utilizing this knowledge. Throughout the book, two icons appear that indicate either observation or action. This means the page or section is about observing reality or taking action by applying the knowledge and following the steps in creating your own work. Similar to our previous book, How To Draw, this book contains links to free online rendering tutorials that can be accessed via the URL list or through the H2Re app.

Scott Robertson returns with his much- anticipated second collection of sketches, clocking in at a whopping 288 drawings that are sure to amaze and inspire.

After a brief hiatus from publishing, the acclaimed designer and best-selling author of How to Draw and How to Render is back to remind the industry why he continues to be a force, with a wide, imaginative range of vehicles represented in the book. From futuristic hot rods and otherworldly rovers, to superhero-worthy sports cars and equally incredible headgear, Robertson's latest sketches were created over the last three years, and are now ready to transport you beyond your own imagination.

Start Your Engines compiles works from Scott Robertson's vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings.

Inside this book is a fantastic selection of both both futuristic and retrospective sketches and renderings of surface vehicles completed by Scott Robertson over the last ten years. From the loosest small thumbnail to the tightest photo-real rendering, this collection is an invaluable reference for other designers and artists. Featured chapters include Cars, Bicycles, Snowcraft, Mechanimals, and selected work from the conceptual design of vehicles for the video games Field Commander and Spy Hunter 2.

As a concept designer, a teacher and an artist, Robertson's work is heavily influenced by his experience as an industrial designer with an emphasis on the design and virtual building of the objects explored through drawings. This volume is a marvelous inspiration for the next generation of concept designers and concept art lovers.

The original group of seven concept designers from Concept Design 1 has returned AND this time they have invited 17 of their talented friends to join them!

In this second volume of Concept Design, guest artists are featured along with the original Los Angeles Entertainment Designers from Concept Design 1 to show us worlds, vehicles, monsters and creations beyond the wildest imagination! Even more astounding and jam-packed than the first volume, Concept Design 2 takes you on a journey into the minds of the talented and successful concept design professionals who create for the sake of creation.

With credits on feature films such as Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III, War of the Worlds, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Spider-Man, X-Men United, Alien vs. Predator, Minority Report, and Terminator 2 & 3, these talented and prominent entertainment concept designers have joined together to create Concept Design 2. Featured within the pages of this book, you will find personal works from this talented group: Harald Belker, Steve Burg, James Clyne, Mark Goerner, Neville Page, Nick Pugh, Scott Robertson, Ryan Church, Dylan Cole, Kasra Farahani, Sean Hargreaves, Khang Le, Stephan Martiniere, Ed Natividad, Rick O'Brien, Dan Quarnstrom, Christian L. Scheurer, Oliver Scholl, Sparth, Farzad Varahramyan, Warren Wanser, Mike Yamada, Felix Yoon, Feng Zhu.

CARMEN THE COCKROACH is an inspirational story for young children about a misunderstood, friendless young cockroach who overcomes insensitive bullying from other more popular bugs (worm, ladybug, butterfly, caterpillar, ant, bee, and more) at school. Carmen perseveres, and succeeds academically and athletically while making friends along the way. All the bugs learn that being different is OK, and getting to know a new bug before judging it can lead to friendship and happiness. With lovable bug illustrations, the book also contains interesting facts about Cockroaches and a fun Name the bugs game.

This story is not your typical thriller where the white knight in shining armor ventures forth for God and Country. The truth, as in life, is far murkier, embedded in a world of deception, jealously guarded by individuals, exhibiting at times, an almost fanatical devotion to their cause. Each civilization has had to come to grips with the nature of man, his role in society, and the conflict between good and evil. Most people upon reflection would agree that certain forms of evil are readily identifiable, fascism and communism, being two twentieth century examples considered so egregious as to not brook vociferous disagreement. Other forms of evil are not so sharply focused and may even exist on the periphery of society without disturbing its conscience. For it is a given that people, and societies as a rule, do not generally consider the effects of good and evil on a daily basis nor do they consider the implications of morality versus necessity. These somewhat ethereal concepts may get shunted to the side as we realize while there may be infinite good in man it is also true his capacity for evil is, at times, boundless.CUTOUT is structured as an allegorical tale in order to facilitate understanding of the complex interrelationships between institutions of government, the public right to know, and the responsibility of government to protect national interest. An interest typically determined by unelected officials behind a wall of secrecy who sit as overlords of a modern-day Deep State Praetorian Guard.Since this book was written in 1996, although never published, events have proven that people will gleefully sign their own death warrant to achieve another's goal. History reminds us that fanaticism does exist and it uses any platform to achieve its end. It is the authors hope the reader will seriously ponder the evolving path of our increasingly, interconnected, global society.

Ruth Parton is a part of the local history that no-one seems to know about, largely because her extraordinary abilities were displayed on the road. She literally gave up family, friends, and a home to be a successful horsewoman. Her direct descendants have provided old family ranch journals, as well as artifacts and archives of her life. The rodeo life had just begun, and initially the women competed with the men. Ruth was acknowledged as the World Champion Relay Racer from 1914 thru 1917. By the 1930's thoroughbred horse racing was growing at established tracks on the west coast. Ruth Parton excelled at that sport as well, winning 45 races at Longacre's in 1945 and 26 wins with a horse named Cyclonic. Ruth was the first woman to be issued a Thourobred Trainers license. She was Native American. Her lifetime included the woman's right to vote, Prohibition, World War One, the Great Depression, the repeal of Prohibition, and World War Two. She was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in 2019. Both forms of horse racing have evolved over time, but Ruth Parton was at the ground level beginning of what is truly an American sport today.

I have never witnessed any coverage that accurately reflects what life is like for those employed in the industry. There is a lot of media hype, but that does not reflect the actual team members daily routine or what they give up in life to provide this entertainment to the world. There is a lot of stress, and some danger, which is managed, but it takes a personal toll. The stress has to be relieved in some way. You dont just work with your coworkers; you live with them, all over the world.

This book reflects one life of a thousand, on one of thirty teams in the sport.

San Francisco swirls with danger in this mystery with amateur sleuths Steffen and Jenny Brock. Husband and wife business owners Steffen and Jenny get pulled into danger when a client's brilliant son is murdered. The son is a principal in a cutting edge environmental company. There is no such thing as environmentally friendly as the wealthy and intelligentsia of the environmental movement face off against the amateur investigators to keep them from finding the truth behind the murder. Great fun and a good read, look for the next Brock mystery thriller in the series.

Life on an Indian reservation is not easy. The average American believes that the enrolled Native Americans are lucky because they get a monthly payment for being enrolled, they are tax exempt, and they can't get their land foreclosed on. While in many cases this is true to some extent, the reality is that these benefits keep the enrolled natives imprisoned in poverty with all the problems that follow. This is one Native's story of growing up in poverty during the Great Depression, traveling the world, and realizing his people's dilemma of trying to maintain a tribal heritage within a foreign government.

The average American considers the following to be minimum standards of living: no. 1-air conditioning, no. 2-hot running water, no. 3-an iPhone. Most people on the planet do not enjoy these extravagances. My hope for every American is to work outside the United States with non-Americans for one year before they are thirty years old. In this manner, one truly understands that Americans are different, not necessarily in a good way. Who is the one nation in the history of the world to unleash nuclear weapons on other humans? Sure there were reasons, but all media and political quibbling aside, only one country in the history of the world has dropped nuclear bombs on other human beings. Other people's goal is to live just like the American's. They will catch up, or we will fall behind. With luxury comes responsibility. They go hand in hand. Please open your mind, relax, and enjoy my story.

The average American considers the following to be minimum standards of living: no. 1-air conditioning, no. 2-hot running water, no. 3-an iPhone. Most people on the planet do not enjoy these extravagances. My hope for every American is to work outside the United States with non-Americans for one year before they are thirty years old. In this manner, one truly understands that Americans are different, not necessarily in a good way. Who is the one nation in the history of the world to unleash nuclear weapons on other humans? Sure there were reasons, but all media and political quibbling aside, only one country in the history of the world has dropped nuclear bombs on other human beings. Other people's goal is to live just like the American's. They will catch up, or we will fall behind. With luxury comes responsibility. They go hand in hand. Please open your mind, relax, and enjoy my story.

At some point in almost everyone's life, they wish that they could get a redo; a fresh start to do it all over again. When you suffer a TBI (traumatic brain injury) you have no choice, your hard drive is scrubbed clean, and you have to start over with whatever brain you now posses. STAN SAYS: is a fiction account based on a real TBI for a man at fifty three years old. He ran a successful business, and was knee deep in a divorce that included two children. His injury occurred two hundred miles from home, so friends, family, and pets had to travel. All nine of his neurologists suggested that he take up a foreign language, art, or study technology as he recovered because the human brain can generate so much from a clean slate. He was told that he would probably not be able to perform his previous job functions, and should consider a career change. At one point his family was told to just go home and get on with their lives, that he would spend the rest of his life in assisted living. He was also told that he was lucky. None of them had ever seen anyone survive this type of injury. As if the TBI weren't enough he also had the two upper ribs on his left side through his left lung contacting his heart, and contracted pneumonia while he lay unconscious in the ICU on life support. So you think you're having a bad day? Stan would beg to differ. Stan would say if you're on this side of the grass, there are no bad days. Of course there is a lot of religion, and praying, in this type of environment. Stan won't preach, but he learned from his own immediate rib counting exercise that Adam did not have an extra rib over Eve. They both have the same rib count, which made him question his religious beliefs. So whether your down and out in an AA meeting over your foopah's, or you're that CEO that needs to be sitting next to that person in an AA meeting, or you just lost your bid for President of the United States, or your wife just drove your new car into the garage door, and you want a redo, take one. It's up to you. Stan can show you one way. You don't have to break your brain. If you do break your brain, you'll have no choice on the redo.

At some point in almost everyone's life, they wish that they could get a redo; a fresh start to do it all over again. When you suffer a TBI (traumatic brain injury) you have no choice, your hard drive is scrubbed clean, and you have to start over with whatever brain you now posses. STAN SAYS: is a fiction account based on a real TBI for a man at fifty three years old. He ran a successful business, and was knee deep in a divorce that included two children. His injury occurred two hundred miles from home, so friends, family, and pets had to travel. All nine of his neurologists suggested that he take up a foreign language, art, or study technology as he recovered because the human brain can generate so much from a clean slate. He was told that he would probably not be able to perform his previous job functions, and should consider a career change. At one point his family was told to just go home and get on with their lives, that he would spend the rest of his life in assisted living. He was also told that he was lucky. None of them had ever seen anyone survive this type of injury. As if the TBI weren't enough he also had the two upper ribs on his left side through his left lung contacting his heart, and contracted pneumonia while he lay unconscious in the ICU on life support. So you think you're having a bad day? Stan would beg to differ. Stan would say if you're on this side of the grass, there are no bad days. Of course there is a lot of religion, and praying, in this type of environment. Stan won't preach, but he learned from his own immediate rib counting exercise that Adam did not have an extra rib over Eve. They both have the same rib count, which made him question his religious beliefs. So whether your down and out in an AA meeting over your foopah's, or you're that CEO that needs to be sitting next to that person in an AA meeting, or you just lost your bid for President of the United States, or your wife just drove your new car into the garage door, and you want a redo, take one. It's up to you. Stan can show you one way. You don't have to break your brain. If you do break your brain, you'll have no choice on the redo.

Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism. While many researchers started out as optimists about the promise of social media for broadening participation and enhancing civic engagement, recent events have tempered that optimism. As this book goes to press, Facebook is fighting a battle over the massive disclosure of user information during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, social analytics company Cambridge Analytica is being revealed as a major player in micro profiling voters in that same election, bots and fake news factories are undermining democratic discourse via social media worldwide, and the president of the United States is unnerving the world as a stream-of-consciousness Twitter user.

This book is a foundational review of current research on social media and civic engagement organized in terms of history, theory, practice, and challenges. History reviews how researchers and developers have continuously pushed the envelope to explore technology enhancements for political and social discourse. Theory reveals that the use of globally-networked social technologies touches many fields including political science, sociology, psychology, media studies, network science, and more. Practice is examined through studies of political engagement both in democratic situations and in confrontational situations. Challenges are identified in order to find ways forward.

For better or worse, social media for civic engagement has come of age. Citizens, politicians, and activists are utilizing social media in innovative ways, while bad actors are discovering possibilities for spreading dissention and undermining trust. We are at a sobering inflection point, and this book is your foundation for understanding how we got here and where we are going.