Stick Sketch School: An Animal Artventure: Mastering the Art of Stick Figure Critters (Stick World)

by Billy Attinger and Rachel Kochackis

Learn to draw stylized stick figure animals in this art-venture! In Stick Sketch School: An Animal Artventure you'll draw animals from the jungle, Arctic, and even extinct & fantasy creatures!

Since Billy Attinger founded his company, Stick World, pop culture has exploded with stick figure art! Social media feeds and other online resources are the perfect home for this brand of simple, pithy, and often wickedly funny art. The best part about stick figures is that anyone can draw them!

Billy Attinger showed how to draw stylized stick figures in his popular Stick Sketch School, and now he's back to show the world stick figure animals. Take an "artventure" around the world: learn to draw stick animals in the jungle, the Arctic, the rainforest, the Outback, underwater, and more! You'll even learn how to draw extinct animals and fantasy animals in stick form.

This guide to drawing is perfect for the visual learner. Each spread features a grid on how to draw the lines, how to add movement, as well as expression. You will also get tips and tricks from stick artist Billy Attinger himself on how to make your stick animals personal, recognizable, and unique!

There is an art to doing anything…even drawing stick figures! The perfect series for aspiring artists who want to start small, Race Point Publishing’s Stick World series encompasses a wide variety of stick-type art. Billy Attinger provides detailed guides to create a vibrant world from simple sticks and circles.

Also in this series: Create your own Stick World Kit, Stick Sketch School.
 

• ISBN13: 9781631063053
• Publish Date: 16 February 2017
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 17 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Race Point Publishing
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 144
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Stick Animal Safari by Billy Attinger and Rachel Kochakis, published by Quarto - Race Point, is exactly what is on the cover. It's a pun filled tutorial safari full of completely do-able cartoon-y stick animals. There are 10 chapters full of tutorials grouped roughly into types; furry, scaly, helpful, birds, slimy critters, dangerous animals, extinct and fantasy things (plus others).
Each chapter includes a nonsense Linnaen nomenclature (Harius Furribelium, Purtius Burrdicus etc *groan*) and introductory sidebar followed by 6 tutorials with a practice page for each animal. The fake Latin made me roll my eyes (and also that the 'species' names were capitalized), but being the stone-cold bionerd I am, I'm probably the only person who is even remotely affected by 'comedy' Latin, and I should just lighten up.

I was won over even BEFORE I saw the pangolin tutorial. PANGOLINS, people!



Yeah, I thought so.

The book is aimed at younger readers, but seriously fun and usable by anyone. I've been drawing pangolins all week in my meeting notes (I'm a professional bionerd - and yes, paying close attention in meetings!). There are many of the puns which are firmly aimed at adults. The book would be a really cool together-time project with family/kids.

144 pages, softbound, but roughly half the page content is the backgrounds for drawing practice.

Definitely a fun book.
Four stars
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher.