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How...is geared more for the graphic arts professional, focusing as much on business tips as studio techniques. Each issue offers advice from top-level art buyers on developing and presenting your portfolio. The how-to features include the evolution of concepts as well as the steps involved in their execution. Close-up articles feature graphics heavyweights such as Milton Glaser. The magazine itself is quite attractively designed. -- Rebecca Wilson

Once the background was dry, Conge applied the remaining hues with several different Percy Baker brushes. The colors are all Peerless mineral-base watercolor dyes. "I like their intensity," he says. "If you took a quart, which would last a lifetime, and poured it into a swimming pool, it would change the color of the water in the whole pool. It's incredible." Next, it was off to the printer, whose first chromalin was "quite unsatisfactory," Conge says. "The whites were dirty and the overall colors heavy and deep." -- How...

PHOTO: Gersten works in layers of tissue paper until he reaches a point where he is satisfied with the relationships between characteristics -- eyes to nose, nose to mouth and so on. He continually refines his sketch by placing a new piece of tissue paper directly on top of the previous one. -- Step-by-Step Graphics

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