Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil: Learn to Draw with Colored Pencil Step by Step

Name: Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil: Learn to Draw with Colored Pencil Step by Step
Brand: Walter Foster Publishing
SKU: 9781633227873
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Learn to create strikingly realistic animal drawings in colored pencil beginning with basic shapes.

Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil shows you how to render a variety of beautiful animals in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing drawing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading and coloring to develop form and realism. In this comprehensive, 40-page book, accomplished artist Debra Kauffman Yaun shares her artistic insights and techniques.

The book opens with essential information on choosing art tools and materials, understanding color theory, and creating basic pencil strokes. It then covers special colored pencil techniques, such as hatching, burnishing, layering, and blending. Finally, the author demonstrates how to accurately depict an assortment of adorable animals--including favorite family pets, wildlife, and birds--in a series of clear, step-by-step lessons. In-depth, easy-to-follow instructions allow aspiring artists to develop their drawing skills, guiding them from simple sketches to the final flourishes.

The included drawing projects are:

Rooster
Shetland sheepdog
Gray squirrel
Horse
Lory bird
Leopard
Maine coon cat
Alpaca
Box turtle
Red fox

The How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

Author: Debra Kauffman Yaun
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing
Published: 05/07/2019
Series: How to Draw & Paint
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 13.50h x 10.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781633227873
Revised Edition

About the Author

Debra Kauffman Yaun discovered that she had a knack for drawing people when she was a young girl growing up in Tampa, Florida. After graduating from the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, Debra worked as a fashion illustrator. She has drawn and painted many commissioned portraits, several of which have been of children--her favorite subject to draw. Debra's artwork has been published in several art magazines and books, and she has won numerous awards, including an international prize. She is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, having served as president of the Atlanta chapter, and she is a juried member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta. She also enjoys teaching classes and workshops in portraits and colored pencil. Debra lives in Buford, Georgia.

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