- 40 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Drawing Animals
About this book
A renowned artist/teacher expertly demonstrates the muted strokes, bold lines, and simple arcs needed to bring animal drawings to vivid life. Numerous sketches highlight these techniques for drawing more than 50 animals: bears, camels, deer, elk, lions, llamas, and others.
Perfect for beginner or intermediate artists, this instruction book offers fascinating commentary that emphasizes animal anatomy and behavior. Its author and illustrator, Victor Perard, was a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and an art instructor at New York City's Cooper Union for twenty years. Perard's informative guide reflects his extensive teaching experience, providing practical advice for aspiring and experienced artists.
Perfect for beginner or intermediate artists, this instruction book offers fascinating commentary that emphasizes animal anatomy and behavior. Its author and illustrator, Victor Perard, was a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and an art instructor at New York City's Cooper Union for twenty years. Perard's informative guide reflects his extensive teaching experience, providing practical advice for aspiring and experienced artists.
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Composition
Take care to place the drawing on the paper correctly. The appearance can often be spoiled by bad placing.
This sketch is badly placed on the page, as it is too far to the left.
This is properly placed on the page. It is better to have a little more room in front of a figure than in back.
This gorilla is placed too near the bottom and too much to the right of the page.
The jaguar is too large for the paper, but that is better than being too small.
The antelope is much too small, and badly placed.
Too small
Placed too high
Draw imaginary lines with your finger.
It is better to have more room in front than in back.
Use basic lines for proper placing.
Grizzly bear
So named because its brown hairs are silver-tipped, the grizzly is the fiercest animal in North America, although it rarely fights man unless attacked. A large male may weigh 500 pounds.
It eats small animals and a variety of plants, berries, and insects. In this drawing a grizzly bear family is looking for insects in a dead tree.
Polar bears
In order to learn expressions and proportions, get a good outline first. Do not shade any more than is really necessary. Shading is less important than outline.
American buffalo
All that remains of the once much hunted buffalo is a small, protected herd. The buffalo’s head is large and heavy, its shoulders massive, and its hindquarters small.
Camels
The Arabian (dromedary) camel is larger than the Central Asian (Bactrian), and has only one hump, while the Bactrian has two. The Bactrian has the shorter legs, is more awkward, and grows a thick winter coat, which it sheds in the spring.
Tabby Cat
Ordinary writing ink is fine for brush drawings.
Chimpanzees enjoy performing for audiences.
The chimpanzee is from Equatorial ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Composition