
The Artist's Guide to Drawing Realistic Animals
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · August 23, 2006
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- Who it’s for
- Move from basic shapes to lifelike animals through lessons on features, fur, and poses.
- Themes
- Realistic animal drawing, Step-by-step drawing instruction, Domestic and wild animals
- Genres
- Life Drawing, Animals & Plants in Art, Wildlife
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Breathe Life into Your Animal Drawings Wildlife artist Doug Lindstrand has spent 30+ years observing animals in nature and capturing them on paper. In this book, he distills his expertise into key lessons for drawing any animal in a charming, realistic style. Inside, a whole herd of step-by-step exercises and demonstrations (43, to be exact!)
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cover a broad range of subjects and challenges, including how to draw: • Short, long and patterned fur • Mouths, eyes, ears and horns • Various poses, including seated, standing and moving • A diversity of animals, domestic and wild--from housecats to big cats, from tiny cottontails to massive African elephants. Nothing intimidating here! Starting with easy sketches, you'll learn to gradually refine basic shapes into lifelike dogs, wolves, deer, sheep, horses, bears, giraffes, owls, eagles, geese and other magnificent creatures. With this classic and time-tested approach, you'll be able to draw not only the animals illustrated on these pages, but any animal that touches your artistic soul.
Animal Forms and Features
Move from basic shapes to lifelike animals through lessons on features, fur, and poses.
Come here for
- Drawing short, long, and patterned fur
- Practicing seated, standing, and moving poses
Expect
- Examples of domestic and wild animals
- Easy sketches that gradually refine basic shapes
Where it sits
| Animals & Plants in Art | 74% |
|---|---|
| Life Drawing | 48% |
| Wildlife | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Drawing Techniques
- Animals & Plants in Art
- Animals
- Authors
- Doug Lindstrand
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- August 23, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Realistic animal drawing · Step-by-step drawing instruction · Domestic and wild animals
- Reading lane
- Drawing Techniques