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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals
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    The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals

    By Peter Gray

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    Wordcount: 8500
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateSep 11, 2013
    ISBN9781782128953
    The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals

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      The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals - Peter Gray

      INTRODUCTION

      When prehistoric man first took a burnt stick and drew on the wall of his cave, it was animals that he chose to depict. To this day, the animal kingdom continues to fascinate and inspire us to create art. The subject is vast and almost unbelievably varied, offering the artist new interests and challenges at every turn.

      This book aims to instruct the reader in the fundamental skills of drawing animals so that, with some application, even the complete beginner should be able to produce satisfying results. It is designed as a course, with each new subject following naturally from the previous one. Step-by-step demonstrations will teach you to capture basic animal form and then gradually increase your facilities to render shade, texture and detail. We will investigate various materials and techniques and strive to develop your own expressive drawing style along the way.

      Capture expression and personality in your subjects.

      Learn techniques for sketching animals from life.

      Convey textures with elegance and simplicity.

      Work up your drawings into expressive and dramatic statements.

      Unlike the disciplines of still life, landscape and portraiture, animals can be elusive, unpredictable and rarely keep still. For these reasons, I recommend using photographic reference for most of the exercises in this book. But there is much more to drawing than merely copying from pictures. Photographs are merely starting points: selection, simplification, mark making and self-expression will make pictures that are more than mere copies. When following the exercises, try to resist simply copying my examples; apply the same stages to photographs of your own or in books, to create new pictures.

      As you grow in confidence, I’ll discuss strategies for working directly from life, for bringing drama and character to your pictures and for developing your own creative flourishes. The 200 or so illustrations in this book represent only a tiny fraction of the techniques and stylistic approaches open to you as you continue to develop your mastery of drawing animals.

      Draw with bold and confident mark making.

      BODY STRUCTURE

      In spite of the variety found in the animal kingdom, you’ll be pleased to know that the basic underlying structure is the same for most of the creatures on the planet. And what’s more, it’s the same as our own!

      Compare the human figure with that of other primates such as the chimpanzee. The joints are

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