Draw 30 amazing animals in 8 easy stages or fewer.
Draw 30 amazing animals and birds in 8 easy stages!
Learn how to draw a marvellous menagerie of 30 animals, from dogs, cats and horses to those on the wilder side, including majestic elephants, beautiful birds, lions, tigers and bears to name but a few!
Choose your favourite fauna, and build up their shapes from top to tail in no more than seven simple sketches that culminate in a full-colour drawing. The creatures featured are created by expert artists Eva Dutton, Susie Hodge, Jonathan Newey and Polly Pinder.
With its easy-to-follow landscape format, you can see the creatures come to life across the pages of the book, then recreate them yourself on paper or in your sketchbook.
This book contains material previously published in the How to Draw series, including Birds (2008), Cats (2008), Dogs (2009), Horses (2009) and Wild Animals (2010).
Table of Contents
Page 4: Cats
Page 10: Dogs
Page 16: Horses
Page 24: Wild Animals
Page 42: Birds
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About Eva Dutton
Eva Dutton is a professional artist and qualified riding instructor (BHSAI) and stable manager (BHS). She studied fine art at Norwich School of Art and has spent many years combining her love of painting with her professional equestrian work. She currently works to commission and exhibits widely. As well as her love for horses, she has a passion for wildlife and the landscape. She is now painting wolves and other creatures as well as farm and domestic animals. Eva is a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists and she is currently working full time as a professional artist and illustrator. She lives in Shropshire.
About Polly Pinder
Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.
Polly now works from her pottery studio creating beautiful, small-batch candle holders and large food platters.
