Let's Draw Sea Creatures by

Let's Draw Sea Creatures

With Let’s Draw Sea Creatures, you can learn to bring your animal drawings to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for a variety of ocean animals.

The easy-to-follow visual and written instructions in this book make it achievable and fun to draw realistic sea life. Each drawing lesson begins with basic shapes and progresses, step by step, to a finished piece of artwork, making it easy to follow along. You just need to grab a pencil, a piece of paper, and your copy of Let’s Draw Sea Creatures, and then flip to the ocean animal you want to draw. The drawing projects include:

  • Dolphin
  • Sea Lion
  • Clownfish
  • Great White Shark
  • Humpback Whale
  • Stingray
  • Moorish Idol Fish
  • Sea Turtle
  • Octopus
  • Orca


The detailed written instructions in this 48-page book also provide tips for placement of details, how to create realistic skin and facial features, how to shade, and much more. If you’ve never drawn before, don’t be intimidated. Just start with a few basic shapes and follow the illustrated steps—you’ll be creating your own amazing animal masterpieces in no time at all! And each time you draw, you should see an improvement in your artistic skills.

Also available from the Let’s Draw series:Let’s Draw Cats, Let’s Draw Dogs, Let’s Draw Favorite Animals, Let’s Draw Wild Animals, Let’s Draw Birds & Butterflies, Let’s Draw Dinosaurs, and Let’s Draw Dragons.

Reviewed by annieb123 on

5 of 5 stars

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Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Let's Draw Sea Creatures is a collection of drawing tutorials by How2DrawAnimals. Due out 16th Aug 2022 from Quarto on their Walter Foster Jr. imprint, it's 48 pages and will be available in paperback format.

For all the readers who grew up with the spin racks of technique booklets from Foster at their local stationery/art store, the format in this new series of books will be comfortingly familiar. The books begin with very basic overviews over tools and supplies and pencil techniques for light and shadow, shading, texture, and form.

There are 10 tutorials included in the book for a varied selection of sea animals such as dolphin, clownfish, great white shark, sea turtle, and octopus (and 5 more). Tutorials are easy to follow and show step by step refinements with new lines and shading included. The tutorials cover two pages each with 10 steps from simple shapes to finished, shaded drawing.

This would make a great gift for would-be artists of all ages. The included tutorials are varied and eclectic. There is a complete table of contents, so locating individual ones shouldn't be problematic. They're slanted toward line drawings, though colored pens, crayons, and watercolors could certainly be used to enhance the drawings.

Nice booklet, accessible for everyone.

Five stars. This would be a nice choice, bundled with some drawing supples, for a young artist. It would also do well for school or public library acquisition, home library, and even for adults/childminders/caregivers/teachers who want to up their "draw with me" game with their young charges.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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