Discover 100 wonderful and majestic creatures to draw!
Whether you have your favourites already, or are looking for inspiration from a range of diverse habitats including rainforests, mountains, polar regions or the African savannah, you're bound to discover an animal in this book that you will find irresistible and you will just want to pick up your pencil and start drawing!
Each animal is broken down into three or four simple stages that lead you effortlessly through to the finished drawing. There are no written instructions to follow just basic shapes and pencil strokes. Even if you’ve never drawn anything before, you will be amazed at how quickly you will achieve incredibly impressive drawings. Every project also shows two finished examples of the animal one shaded with pencil and the other with colour.
This is the perfect book for budding artists yearning to draw their favourite animals.
The material in this book is taken from the following books in Search Press's successful How to Draw series: Mountain Animals, Polar Animals, Rainforest Animals, African Animals .
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About Susie Hodge
Susie Hodge MA FRSA has written over 150 books on art history and practical art. Many of her books are bestsellers and award winners, and she has taught art to all age groups. In addition, she hosts lectures, talks and practical workshops, and appears regularly on TV and radio, in documentaries and in news and current affairs programmes.
For more information about Susie, visit her website: www.susiehodge.com
About Jonathan Newey
Jonathan Newey is an award-winning artist with extensive experience in many drawing and painting mediums including coloured pencil. He comes from a long line of artists in the family and studied art and design at the London College of Printing. He is a City & Guilds qualified teacher and has over 20 years' experience of teaching in adult education. He has many drawings and paintings in collections both nationally and internationally and has demonstrated for most of the top manufacturers in the UK. Jonathan is an active promoter of the coloured pencil as a serious drawing medium and is a founder member of the UK Coloured Pencil Society.
Customer Review
This book would appeal to young budding artists, it has some fantastic structural diagrams to enable the reader to recreate the images using a step-by-step procedural method. All in all it would make a fantastic gift along side a sketch pad and some good quality coloured pencils.
Leisure Painter
As part of the Draw 100 series from Search Press come Draw 100: Flowers and Draw 100: Animals . These books are aimed at the complete beginner, promising to take you from basic shapes to amazing drawings in super-easy steps.
Draw 100: Animals is written by art writer and lecturer, Susie Hodge and award-winning artist, Jonathan Newey. Each of the featured animals is broken down into three or four simple stages, with no written text. Using this tried and tested formula, budding artists will be able to produce striking drawings and paintings with ease.
