Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book

Ed Emberley Drawing Books

by Ed Emberley

Using fingerprints and a few dots, scribbles, and lines, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to make all sorts of pictures, inlcuding frogs, trains, flowers, clowns, dragons, and more! This classic book is packed with fun things that kids-and many adults-really want to create. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full fun.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Childrens, Picture Books, Drawing

48 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2000

About the author

American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.

Reviews

[karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

WELCOME TO OCTOBER PROJECT!

OCTOBER PROJECT IS OVER!

sorry there was a little bit of delay in posting the final day of fingieprints - halloween was spooky and then i got a horrible flu and have been incapacitated and am still very wobbly. but now it is posted! happy october!

when i was little, i looooved ed emberley. i was recently reminded of this fact and decided to be a little kid again and make me some fingerprint art.

i'm not quite sure how to structure this project. i like having daily assignments, but i don't know how to wrangle this book into one-a-day endeavors. it seems lazy to just do a single print per day, and that won't get me anywhere close to demonstrating all the little fingie-creatures this book has to offer. but i also don't want to get too ambitious and create daily scenes "starring" multiple creatures from the book which would require additional artwork and clever thematic ideas, which i cannot promise with my hectic schedule.

i'll just wing it, i guess. for today, i will just practice sticking my fingers into the ink and making a few of the characters to see if i'm as artistic now as i was when i was six.

October 1



not too shabby, fingies!

October 2



look at all the cats my fingies made!

October 3



fingieman in peril! look out for giant buggas!!!

October 4



here are all sorts of ways to use your fingies to make different people-shapes!

October 5



and here are some of the things that bean-people can do!

October 6



there's a dirty joke in here somewhere. enjoy!

October 7



here are a whole bunch of birrrrds! i'm still working through the book, checking out what i can make from it. at some point, i will (hopefully) make more involved and exciting pictures, but for now, i'm just gathering the characters.

October 8



phoning it in a bit today because life is hard, but here are some creatures that can be found in your local pond!

October 9



more assorted animals! slow and steady wins the race!

October 10



more birds and a weirdo tree!

October 11



still haven't mastered the art of cropping, but i think i've mastered the art of thumbfish!

October 12



and a very meowy christmas to YOU!

October 13



here are some more cute little critters!

October 14



it's a winter wonderland!

October 15



here are some lions! broken up into two photos because some dummy accidentally made one upside down because of distractions...

October 16



here are some moods that fingerprints can have!

October 17



more moods! so moody are my fingies!

October 18



more faces doin' stuff... i promise this will get more fun and involved soon - don't give up on me!

October 19



a string of duckies! see, these are way better than boring facial expressions. quack!

October 20



a ferocious dragon! mind his toxic smoke!

October 21



dinosaurs and penguins and eskimos, oh my!

October 22



more lazy mood-prints. but they're cute, right? my fingies?

October 23



it's an underwater party! don't be eaten!

October 24



bears and berries, berries and bears!

October 25



spring flowers, autumn trees - this picture is so confusing!

October 26



so many sad fingie babies...

October 27



so, here we have a crocodile and a lion and they want to eat that baby elephant and that nasty bluejay is egging them on but momma-elephant is saying "noooooo," and the brave net-person is coming to save the day. aaaaaaand scene.

October 28



this one is off-book - for some reason, ed emberley did not include instructions on how to make a picture of me giving my cat her chemo using fingerprints. very shortsighted, emberley.

and since i may as well pass the hat for maggie wherever i am online:

https://www.gofundme.com/maggie-needs...

maggie's contribution to the fingerprint project:



she's not the best at it, but at least now i have little blue pawprints on my rug!

October 29



this one is also off-book, and now i am realizing that i should have been doing this the whole dang time because it is so much more fun to create scenes than it is to replicate the ones in the book. so from now on - for all of halloween weekend, i am going to skew dark and make scary fingies. this one depicts the rising of the ants and the resulting massacre of mankind. enjoy!

October 30



this is what happens when crazy cat ladies die unexpectedly. a feast for kitties!

October 31



HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

sorry for the delay - i was very feverish and far from the computer. but i'm glad we made it through october together! welcome to november!

come to my blog!

[Friend of Pixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another fabulous Ed Emberley book. This one shows you how to add small details to finger- and thumb-prints to make everything from trains to bugs to dragons to Santa's sleigh and 8 tiny reindeer. Logan's favorite book is Emberley's Make A World, but this one is actually easier for him. Even a kid of 4 could do many of the things in this book. My favorite is the multi-colored lion that requires lots of thumbprints and very few drawn-in details. It looks so impressive. As Emberley says in the dedication of his books, "For the boy I was, the book I couldn't find." His books are true originals and I am so glad I found them.

[Lizzy Zuviri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Art, Diy, Informational, Fun

This book is an informational book where the author teaches the reader step-by-step how to make paintings with your fingerprints. This shows you how to do it but also gives the reader many opportunities to make the paintings their own. It is a fun book to do as an activity at home or for fun in the classroom.

Ed Emberley’s Fingerprint Drawing Book is a non-fiction text. It falls in the sequential sub-category since you have to follow steps to get the desired art piece. If the reader doesn't follow the sequence, it is possible their drawing would look a lot different. So following the sequence is key to be able to do the drawings in the book

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it. Very creative. The book is about creating characters (people, animals, etc.) using fingerprints. It would make a wonderful activity for children.

[AnnieM · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute for kids and a great activity for them, not the best for me personally.

[AnnieM · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute for kids and a great activity for them, not the best for me personally.

[Charity · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! My kids love it less than they ought to. It is possible that they are simply spoiled and ungrateful. They also don't like getting their fingers inky and are ridiculously perfectionist, so that could contribute to their lack of enthusiasm. None of this stops me from getting it out once a year or so and animatedly suggesting that some fingerprint art would be a great addition to those thank-you notes they're writing.

Really, I just need to add fingerprint art to the thank-you notes I write and leave my kids alone, but I nag them about so little, it seems a pity not to nag them about this. What's that you say? Nagging doesn't often lead to someone enthusiastically embracing something they didn't previously love? To this I respond: Where's your data supporting this claim? Until I have data to the contrary, I'm sticking with the nagging plan.

[Danielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. Someone gave it to me for my birthday, and I've made so many cute cards and letters for kids and adults. A really creative way to make art that anyone with fingers (or toes) can do!

[Tracy Schillemore · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an awesome book particularly if you have children who are not naturaly artist. This book show how to transform your fingerprint into many different things. It is easy to do and will make any child feel like an artist.

[Barb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspired for xmas card and teacher pottery gift

[Rosanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

More pictures to make using your thumbprint.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book
Emberley, Ed
art supplement to add to the classroom library

[Charlotte Dungan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kids have enjoyed making huge landscapes of fingerprint creations, as inspired by this book. Thumbs up!

[Mo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Geared toward kids, of course, but contains a plethora of cute fun ideas with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

[Shelley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the simple fingerprint animals and characters All you need besides that is to know how to draw simple lines, curves and zigzags. Very empowering for simple art.

[Pghgranola · Rating 5 out of 5]

sophia and i have had SO MUCH fun with this book!

[John Sims · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book as a child. Hours of entertainment.

[Robin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun idea for rainy-day art. Could be done with a group.