A first drawing book for kids offers step-by-step instructions for drawing favorite pets while providing tips and ideas for using watercolors, crayons, pens and collage to enhance their drawings. Reprint.
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Pets and farm animals are fun, familiar subjects for beginner drawing projects. Young readers follow clear text instructions and corresponding pictures as they create their own cute and colorful artwork. These step-by-step instructions allow readers of all skill levels to feel like real artists. Readers can even compare their works of art to the charming illustrations used as examples. With each turn of the page, they learn to draw a variety of pets—from dogs and cats to spiders and snakes. They also learn to draw a barnyard full of farm animals and a farmer to take care of them!
Using the step-by-step instructions featured in the informative guide, young artists will learn to draw their favorite animals. Accessible language explains to readers how to turn shapes and lines into a fierce tiger. Artists are encouraged to try different styles of drawing, from realism to cartoons.
Can you draw animals? You can if you start with simple shapes! Circles and triangles become a party cat. Triangles and ovals make up a cute penguin. What kind of animal can you draw with shapes? Colorful, step-by-step illustrations show readers how to draw all their favorite animals.
How to Draw Animals, Stroke by Stroke! Books on drawing animals often leave beginning artists feeling frustrated. Does the following scenario sound familiar: You're drawn in by the beautiful final images of a drawing book for beginners, but when you go through the steps of drawing your fist animal project you realize there are lots of missing strokes to get you from one step to the next. Alas! Not with this book! In this true beginner's guide to drawing pets, not only do you get a variety of 50 animals to learn how to draw, you get them in a leveled progression that start super easy and then gradually advance as you progress through the book. You also get super clear instruction with color strokes to show you exactly what's different from one step to the next. Here's just a sampling of the 50 animals you'll learn how to draw: - Dogs (8 breeds) - Cats (5 breeds) - Horses (5 breeds) - Birds (6 varieties) - Fish (4 varieties) - Turtle - Hamster - Guinea pig - Gecko - Llama - Hedgehog - Ferret - Plus an adorable puppy, kitten, and baby chick
Pets are the most endearing of subjects. Capture the fuzzy feathers of a ducking or a cat stalking their prey in this beautifully illustrated, user-friendly manual. Award-winning artist Aimee Willsher shows you how to capture the essence of the animals you love using a range of drawing media. Including: • More than 20 step-by-step projects • Exercises showing how to master the primary shapes of popular pets • Tutorials on drawing your pet from life and from photographs • Demonstrations of a range of compositions Whether you're a complete novice or want to take your pet portraits to the next level, How to Draw Pets will provide a firm grounding from which you can gain the confidence to develop your own style.