Drawing and Painting Animals: How to Create Beautiful Artworks of Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles, with Expert Tutorials and 14 Projects Shown in ... ... More Than 470 Photographs and Illustrations

This title helps you produce superb studies of a variety of animal subjects, ranging from familiar farmyard sheep and rabbits to more exotic creatures such as a lion and a tree frog.You can learn techniques for drawing fur and skin, with guidance on how to capture the basic shape and anatomical details, textures and markings that are unique to each animal.It shows how to draw and paint with a range of media, from working with pencils, charcoal and pastels to using water paints, gouache, acrylics and oils.Galleries of professional art offer insights into how different effects can be achieved.It features 14 projects to follow, from a sleeping cat and a dog playing to fighting stags and a magnificent elephant.This accessible and inspiring book shows how to draw and paint a wide variety of mammals, from learning to capture the texture of fur and skin to creating beautifully composed portraits.The book contains a series of step-by-step projects covering cats, dogs, rabbits, otters, sheep, s