With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic Birds in graphite pencil.
Drawing: Birds allows artists to develop drawing skills by 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..
Designed for beginners, the How to Draw &
Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist.
For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a must-have art-instruction reference.
Easy-to-follow instruction and art tips throughout make Drawing: Birds a complete guide for creating realistic and detailed drawings of these feathered friends.
With his easy step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic.
Aaseng also shows you how to create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water.
In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng offers simple, comprehensive instruction for drawing a range of lovely birds, as well as information for achieving accurate proportions, capturing motion, and building up form.
After learning the drawing basics, jump into the easy step-by-step projects to draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees.
Discover helpful tips for creating a good composition, understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking artistic liberties.
Then learn a variety of basic drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others.
This comprehensive book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials.
Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds.
With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic Birds in graphite pencil
