How to Draw Animal Friends provides all the information kids need to begin creating inspired drawings of all their favorite family pets, including step-by-step instructions and fun animal facts.
Aspiring artists begin each drawing with basic shapes, then follow the instructions, step by step, to finish with a realistic rendering of an animal. They'll also discover fun facts about the featured animals along the way.
Among the 20 animal friends:
- Cat
- Dog
- Guinea pig
- Snake
- Turtle
- Fish
- Bunny
- Frog
- Ferret
- Iguana
With How to Draw Animal Friends, budding artists will be drawing masterpieces of their favorite pet animals in no time at all!
By teaching little kids to notice basic shapes, they learn to build up from this foundation. For example, when they look at a cat, they notice a circle for the head, an oval for the body, triangular shapes for the ears – and then you build a tail, legs and feet as you round out the shapes. The same principle applies for dinosaurs, fish, and horses. Surprisingly, it works with machines and vehicles too! You are training the child's eye to look for basic shapes in the world around them. Instructions are in the book, but you will want some nice drawing paper for your own artwork. Maybe a blank journal would be fun to draw in as a keepsake of your early artwork! ~Sara
My daughter is very good at drawing already, and I know she'll appreciate honing her skills with this book.
Looks like good starting instructions to gain confidence. Purchased for my 8YO.