Looking for a new hobby? Consider trying your hand at a new art style! Here are 8 titles that might inspire your next big creation!

The art of paint pouring : tips, techniques, and step -by-step instructions for creating colorful poured art in acrylic / Amanda VanEver Featuring easy step-by-step projects, practical tips, and beautiful art from an established paint-pouring expert, this book helps artists of any skill level make colorful, textured art by pouring acrylic paint onto a canvas. There are many techniques for making poured art, and this book details them all. You will learn to swipe, pour, and more using the many how-to projects provided in this book.

Nature’s art box : from t-shirts to twig baskets : 65 cool projects for crafty kids to make with natural materials you can find anywhere / written by Laura C. Martin Whether it’s a city park, a suburban backyard, a farmer’s field, or the sandy seashore, there’s a treasure trove of natural art materials out there. Twigs, vines, pinecones, flowers, leaves, rocks, shells, moss, feathers – they’re all gifts of the earth. Add just a few inexpensive store-bought items, such as glue, string, and wire, and anyone can create beautiful, natural works of art.

The awesome 3-D art coloring guide : learn 3-D coloring techniques & color cool drawings! / Yukari Mishima Have fun creating colorful optical illusion drawings withThe Awesome 3-D Art Coloring Guide! Try your hand at 3-D coloring with one of the 20 dynamic images included, such as: A snowboarder catching air on the slopes Colorful birds and butterflies soaring across the sky A secret underground staircase full of mystery Discover special coloring tips and tricks to make flat illustrations appear as if they’re about to jump right off the page! You’ll learn how coloring techniques like blending, shading, blurring, outlining, and erasing can be used to capture shape and texture and create shadow within an illustration. Each drawing is accompanied by step-by-step instructions and special tips and tricks tailored to the specific image.

Draw 200 animals : the step-by-step way to draw horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and many more creatures / Lee J. Ames A compendium of step-by-step drawing exercises from the best-selling Draw 50 series that features easy-to-follow lessons for rendering animals including cats, dogs, horses, prehistoric creatures, and more. With exercises taken from the animal drawing instruction titles in Lee J. Ames’s beloved Draw 50 series, Draw 200 Animals brings you the best of Draw 50 Animals, Draw 50 Cats, Draw 50 Dogs, Draw 50 Horses, and Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals in a must-have collection of easy-to-follow, step-by-step visual lessons on sketching and rendering all kinds of furry, feathered, and finned critters”

Sloth crafts : 18 fun & creative step-by-step projects / by Ellen Deakin These crafts will make you appreciate the slower side of things! Try out these adorable crafts based on the animal that everyone’s talking about! Sloths are fuzzy, endearing, and oh-so-sweet! No one can resist their adorable faces — especially when they’re the inspiration for a dozen crafts that will have your sloth-loving friends oohing and aahing. With Sloth Crafts you’ll learn how to create sloth: –Plushies –Necklaces –Ornaments –Bags –Brooches –Cakes –Scarves –Masks –And more! Both novice and expert crafters will enjoy this wide variety of projects.

Super-cute Chibis to draw and paint / Joanna Zhou Written for art students as well as for professional illustrators who design posters, computer art, graphic novels, and related media, this color-illustrated book presents fundamental instruction on creating chibis–diminutive, large-eyed Anime-style cartoon characters that are attracting increasing interest in today’s popular art markets. The author presents step-by-step directions for drawing and painting 30 of these tiny and appealing childlike figures and animals. As students learn the basics of chibi style and develop related visual techniques, they can go on to create chibis of their own original design. Each of the book’s thirty characters is presented with a basic line drawing that students can copy, scan, or trace before adding personalized features. Advice is given on how to simplify and exaggerate facial features, and how to render the distinctive elements that make each finished character unique. The book is filled with instructive illustrations in color and black and white.

Drawing and painting imaginary animals : a mixed-media workshop / Carla Sonheim Rediscover a more child-like approach to creating with Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals! Through fun and creative exercises, Carla Sonheim teaches you to draw a variety of fun animals and creatures, including: Dogs ; Birds ; Elephants ; Fish ; Cats ; Rabbits ; And many others. You’ll also find a variety of unique mixed-media techniques to help you bring your creatures to life, resulting in a unique finished art piece. Improve your drawing skills, expand your creativity, and learn new art techniques-and have loads of fun doing it!

Origami city : fold more than 30 global landmarks / Shuki Kato & Jordan Langerak Ever felt like making your own Empire State Building out of paper? Turning a menu into a Sydney Opera house in next to no time? Origami City is an instructional guide to making more than 30 paper landmarks from around the world. Each project features clear, illustrated steps, and up front the book explains origami basics for complete beginners, as well as some of the more unusual folds used for more experienced origamists.