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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals
by Walter Foster Creative Team
Published 1 March 2017
With helpful tips and easy to follow step-by-step lessons, The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals is the perfect resource for artists looking to hone their drawing style and technique. The Complete Beginner's Guide to Drawing Animals starts with a thorough introduction to the essential tools and materials artists need to get started, including different types of pencils, sketchbooks, papers, erasers, and more. This helpful resource features dozens of comprehensive drawing lessons designed to teach aspiring artists how to draw a variety of animals, from lifelike pet portraits to zoo and safari animals. Artists will discover the fundamentals of drawing and techniques for rendering realistic animal textures, such as fur, feathers, whiskers, manes, and hair; creating volume; shading; developing a composition; and mastering perspective, all with the goal of drawing dozens of lifelike animals in graphite and colored pencil.
Featuring a wide variety of mixed media techniques, including drawing and painting, stamping, stitching, ephemera, encaustics, collaging, journaling, and more, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art is the perfect resource for artists exploring the many ways they can expand their artistic horizons with mixed media art.
Mixed media is all about experimenting with the materials available to you and honing your artistic skills. With this book, you will learn to effectively use paints, papers, fibers, stamps and stencils, found and repurposed materials, and many other materials. The techniques in this book are presented with simple step-by-step examples of how to wield basic art tools and materials to effect both traditional and cutting-edge mixed media concepts. Artists will not only learn a variety of new concepts and techniques, but also discover how to apply them within their own mixed media projects. With so many techniques to choose from, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art will inspire artists of all skill levels to explore the many ways they can get started with the ever-evolving, ever-popular mixed media art form.
So get ready to get creative! With step-by-step art projects to apply newly learned techniques, bonus creative exercises to get your artistic juices flowing, and more than 500 photos to inspire you, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art can truly help you develop your artistic style and talent.
Mixed media is all about experimenting with the materials available to you and honing your artistic skills. With this book, you will learn to effectively use paints, papers, fibers, stamps and stencils, found and repurposed materials, and many other materials. The techniques in this book are presented with simple step-by-step examples of how to wield basic art tools and materials to effect both traditional and cutting-edge mixed media concepts. Artists will not only learn a variety of new concepts and techniques, but also discover how to apply them within their own mixed media projects. With so many techniques to choose from, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art will inspire artists of all skill levels to explore the many ways they can get started with the ever-evolving, ever-popular mixed media art form.
So get ready to get creative! With step-by-step art projects to apply newly learned techniques, bonus creative exercises to get your artistic juices flowing, and more than 500 photos to inspire you, The Complete Book of Mixed Media Art can truly help you develop your artistic style and talent.