Learn to draw incredibly photorealistic pets, exotic animals, horses, and more with Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil in this follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil.

An easy to read, how-to guide with complete instructions for creating lifelike portraits of wild and domestic animals using colored pencils. In this comprehensive, thirty-two–page book, accomplished artist Debra Kauffman Yaun shares her artistic insights and techniques for creating strikingly realistic animal drawings in colored pencil. The book opens with essential information on choosing 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.

This, the fourth book in the Drawing in Color series, teaches readers how to draw realistic animals with colored pencils. Lee Hammond's amazing easy-to-follow techniques enable you to render a variety of wonderful animals, from cats and dogs to horses, squirrels, tigers and more. These skills can be used to draw any kind of mammal accurately. Hammond's special graphing system makes all the difference, helping to translate the animal poses seen into drawings on the page. You'll also learn other important illustration techniques, including layering, blending and shading. Additional guidelines help duplicate realistic eyes, ears, mouths, feet, fur, and hide. You'll feel like you can draw from the start with achievable examples, even if you're a first-timer.

Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil offers simple step-by-step drawing instructions that help you to learn how to draw your favorite animals. Adorable animals like rabbits, squirrels, deer, and pigs come alive with vibrant color and beautiful detail. Using colored pencils learn tips and techniques to easily draw an elephant, polar bear, lion, alpaca, hippopotamus, and more adorable creatures.The instructions are simple to follow, but detailed enough so anyone can easily achieve great success in replicating each figure. Author Ai Akikusa loves animals and she shares interesting details about each animal in each section. Enjoy Drawing Cute Animals in Colored Pencil as a guidebook to animals and drawing in color!

An inquisitive chimp, a menacing bear, a sweet otter - if you wish you knew how to draw wildlife better than you do now, than this is the resource for you. Each of the 25 artists included in this book generously give you instruction and guidance on how they draw their masterful colored pencil images of stunning wildlife. Learn from each how they begin a piece, how they create the defining elements of each subject, and how they use colored pencils to create realistic animals. Ten full step by step tutorials included, with 14 large, clear steps in each. An additional 15 artists guide you through key elements of wildlife drawing in 4 steps each. Packed with instruction and inspiration, this 4th in our DRAW series is exceptional.

Learn How to Draw Animals with Colored Pencils For the Beginner Table of Contents Introduction Blending Mixing the colors Drawing the shadows Proportionality Golden eagle - drawing tutorial Tiger - drawing tutorial Fish - drawing tutorial Parrot - drawing tutorial Ladybugs - drawing tutorial Horses - drawing tutorial Author Bio Introduction: Drawing with colored pencil is super easy if you use the right colors and have drawn a good sketch. Unlike the graphite pencils, colored pencils cannot be easily erased, so we have to draw carefully, particularly the darker areas. Always draw parts with colored pencil pressing down lightly and if it looks good, color over the same area pressing down hard. Buy good brand of colored pencils and smooth paper. If you don't have a lot of say red pencils, you can get more nuances with only one pencil, by controlling how hard you press when you draw. In the image below I've drawn with one red pencil three nuances. In the first example I pressed hard, in the second I pressed normally and in the third example I pressed lightly. Even more nuances can be created this way:

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 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 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: a rooster, a Shetland sheepdog, a gray squirrel, a horse, a lory bird, a leopard, a Maine coon cat, an alpaca, a box turtle, and a red fox. Designed for beginners, 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.

From Walter Foster Publishing’s popular Realistic series, which features step-by-step instructions for drawing amazingly lifelike artwork in the dynamic colored pencil medium, comes Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil. Whether you are an aspiring or established artist, you can learn to draw your favorite animals with incredible detail and photorealism. This follow-up to Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil and Realistic Still Life in Colored Pencil is authored and illustrated by an accomplished colored pencil artist with numerous art awards to her name. The artwork looks complex, but it’s possible to replicate with the help of the thorough section on colored pencil techniques that opens the book. Learn how to create various effects, including: shading blending layering burnishing and more! The following pages cover animal textures, such as fur, hair, eyes, tongues, and more, and how to create them. The step-by-step projects are awe-inspiring in their realism and feature popular animal subjects like dogs, cats, horses, birds, exotic animals, and more. Laid out in a way that’s easy to follow and understand, the projects are approachable and appealing for any skill level. Whether you simply wish to gawk at amazingly photorealistic art or create your own animal portraits, Realistic Animals in Colored Pencil is the perfect resource.

Take your colored pencil skills to the next level and create a dazzling artistic menagerie! From songbirds to a soft-furred lynx, from a showy fish to a serene sloth, learn to draw realistic and beautiful animals in colored pencil. With tutorials for rendering textures, creating luminous color, getting animal proportions right, and more, this is the perfect guide for anyone wishing to make the most of their pencils. Step-by-step lessons take you from rough sketch to fully rendered drawing. Along the way you'll learn indispensable colored pencil techniques for vividness and realism. You'll also learn the subtle art of making drawings come alive. Full color throughout.

A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. In this book you will find 39 step-by-step tutorials on how to draw domestic and wild animals with colored pencils in a realistic style. You will learn to draw them, from both imagination and reference photos. Every tutorial consists illustrations with short explanations for each step based on the author's personal experience. The book is written and illustrated by a recognized fine artist, Jasmina Susak, whose life-like drawings are popular around the world. The drawing tutorials are easy to understand and apply, so whether you are a beginner or already have some experience, you can still follow along. This book also covers techniques for creating textures like fur, skin, that are traditionally difficult to make appear realistic, simple techniques for achieving amazingly realistic compositions, including layering and burnishing. You’ll learn tips for blending colors and creating subtle gradients in your drawings. This book can be a perfect gift for animal lovers particularly children, since the book contains more hundred images. This book is a great choice for anyone who appreciates visual art, whether you want to create it yourself and learn through close observation, or just peek behind the curtain to see how such work is done. Enjoy learning! www.jasminasusak.com