Let's Draw Birds & Butterflies by

Let's Draw Birds & Butterflies

With Let’s Draw Birds & Butterflies, you can learn to bring your animal drawings to life, guided by realistic illustrations and step-by-step instructions for a variety of winged creatures.

The easy-to-follow visual and written instructions in this book make it achievable and fun to draw lifelike birds and butterflies. 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 Birds & Butterflies, and then flip to the animal you want to draw. The drawing projects include:
 
  • Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
  • House Sparrow
  • Mallard Duck
  • Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
  • Emperor Penguin
  • Dove
  • Bald Eagle
  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Rooster
  • Barn Owl

The detailed written instructions in this 48-page book also provide tips for placement of details, how to create realistic feathers and patterns, 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 Sea Creatures, Let’s Draw Dinosaurs, and Let’s Draw Dragons.

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Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Let's Draw Birds and Butterflies 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 flying creatures such as a hummingbird, mallard, tiger swallowtail butterfly, dove, and barn owl (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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