Drawing Pets: How to Draw Animals, Stroke by Stroke

by David Williams

Kids and young adults love to draw, and a consistently favorite subject is animals and pets, such as cats, dogs, and even the dream pet: horses. Getting the basic shapes right is the first step, and it can be a challenge. Idiot's Guide: Drawing Pets shows readers step by step how to create accurate likenesses of their favorite animals.

In this book readers get:

-- How-to steps for creating 50 of the most popular pets, with plenty of varieties of dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens, in addition to favorite fish, birds, reptiles, and rodents-even horses.

-- Materials and methods needed for simple animal drawings.

-- Tutorials on patterns and shadings to make basic drawings more realistic.

-- Tips on drawing from life and from photos.

-- New strokes shown in second color, making the process easy and fun to learn.

-- Help with rendering more complex poses and mastering more difficult body parts.

-- The right combination of text and images to make learning to draw easy for people of all learning styles.

206 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2015

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Reviews

[Montzalee Wittmann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Idiot's Guide: Drawing Pets
By David Williams

This book is a step-by-step lessons for five different levels of beginners. It advertises as "As easy as it gets" and it really is!
It is definitely for beginners and starts at level one and after several lessons, it moves up a level. It continues this way through level five. There are 50 lessons!
They could have left the tarantula out! Lol!
Lots of variety! If I can do these anyone can! For kids and beginners!

[Ietrio · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book that goes easy on the beginners. A bit formulaic, but it gives the very beginners a sense of achievement.

[Danielle Vasquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a good drawing book .very easy steps to draw simple and even more complicated pictures of animals

[San Diego Book Review · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewed by Anita Lock

Idiot's Guides to Drawing Pets is a step-by-step instructional manual on how to draw 50 pets. Covering a wide range of animals, Williams's lessons include mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and one arachnid that are grouped into five levels of difficulty—from easier to more challenging. Williams offers a fresh detailed and user-friendly approach to drawing.
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