Polly Pinder, Susie Hodge, Eva
Dutton and Jonathan Newey
Search Press
18 May 2011/ ISBN 1844486648
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
This is a compilation of five previous books on drawing cats,
dogs, wild animals, birds and horses -- not a brand new book. If
you don’t have these previous titles you can now obtain them
in one handy volume with nothing omitted.
Each page (larger than UK size A4) shows you how to draw an animal
or bird, starting with a rough outline and adding more in subsequent
diagrams (usually six). The last two show the drawing shaded in
pencil and finally with paint added for a colored study. One helpful
aspect of this is that each additional drawing shows what has been
added to it in a different colored pencil, although in some cases
more stages would have made the book even more user-friendly. For
a beginner it is not always obvious how to get from a simple line
drawing to the fully shaded study next in line, but working it all
out is perhaps part of the fun.
Certainly this is a beautifully simple approach to drawing, where
there are no captions – they frankly just aren’t necessary
- just steps to work through. I enjoyed using it, and anybody who
wants to learn how to draw a range of different creatures will,
too.
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