Drawing Animals: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Animals - Paperback

by Aimee Willsher (Author)

An accessible, illustrated guide to drawing animals through step-by-step projects and essential techniques.

Pets are the most endearing of subjects. Capture the skulking movement of a cat stalking their prey, or the fuzzy feathers of a ducking in this beautifully illustrated, user-friendly manual. Award-winning artist Aimee Willsher shows you how to capture the essence of the animals you love using a range of drawing media.

Including:
- More than 20 step-by-step projects
- Exercises showing how to master the primary shapes of popular pets
- Tutorials on drawing your pet from life and from photographs
- Demonstrations of a range of compositions

Whether you're a complete novice or want to take your pet portraits to the next level, How to Draw Pets will provide a firm grounding from which you can gain the confidence to develop your own style.

Author Biography

Aimee Willsher is a professional artist who specializes in figurative portraiture using traditional oils as well as detailed pencil line drawing. She graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in History of Art and has since worked on private commissions, winning the Premium Art Brands Award for a Young Artist in 2012. She lives in London with her fiancé, Damien, and white whippet, Yvie.