Studio Art Research Guide

E-Books on Studio Art Topics

• Character Animation in 3D: Use Traditional Drawing Techniques to Produce Stunning CGI Animation by Steve Roberts
• The Art of Architectural Drawing: Imagination and technique by Thomas W. Schaller
• The Technique of Pencil Drawing, with notes on the proportions of the human figure, written and illustrated by Borough Johnson by Borough Johnson
• Drawing the Line: The untold story of the animation unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson by Tom Sito
• Art Through Children's Literature: Creative art lessons for Caldecott books by Debi Englebaugh
• Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank
• Art Projects Made Easy: Recipes for fun by Linda J. Arons
• Intaglio Simultaneous Color Printmaking by Krishna Reddy 
• Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists by J.D. Jarvis and Jospeh Naiven
• Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design by Steven Heller
• The Graphic Design Business Book by Tad Crawford
• Photography in the Middle: Dispatches on Media Ecologies and Aesthetics by Rob Coley and Dean Lockwood
• Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago
• Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States by Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien
• Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography by Linda Haverty Rugg
• Theatrical Scene Painting: A Lesson Guide by William H. Pinnell
• What Painting Is by James Elkins 
• Unframed: Practices and Politics of Women's Contemporary Painting by Rosemary Betterton
• Is Art History Global? by James Elkins 
• Art History: The Basics by Diana Newall and Grant Pooke 
• Art History: The Key Concepts by Jonathan Harris 
• The New Art History: A Critical Introduction by Jonathan Harris
• The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology by Oxford University Press 
• Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion  by Oliver Grau