How to Draw Almost Everything: An Illustrated Sourcebook

By Susan Au and James Rutter

Book Overview

Not sure how to start your drawing of a flamingo or a flying squirrel? Businessman? Bat? Baobab tree? How to Draw Almost Everything is here to help

With over 2,000 images, this playful visual reference book offers illustrated step-by-step instructions for drawing almost anything you can imagine:

Animals: a menagerie of terrestrial animals, aquatic animals & fish, birds, bugs & insects, dinosaurs, and even unidentified mysterious animalsPeople: facial features, expressions, actions, people of different ages and genders, clothing, occupations, and famous facesPlants: all kinds of trees, shrubs, flowers, and other unique plantsFoods: a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, main dishes, snacks, drinks, and packaged foodsThings around the house: stuff found in the entryway, kitchen, living room, bedroom, study, bathroom, and patio as well as tools for home maintenanceArchitecture: structures found around the neighborhood, famous sites in Japan, and famous landmarks around the worldVehicles: on the road, on the tracks, in the air, on the water, and beyondSeasons: everyday events, holidays & special events, weather, Chinese zodiac, and astrological signs
Author and artist Chika Miyata's whimsical, loose drawing style will encourage you to be spontaneous and creative as you try the wealth of different drawing subjects. At the end of each chapter, Chika challenges you to synthesize what you've learned by drawing a scene.

As you go, you will find not only that you can draw, but that you love to draw.

Each book in the Almost Everything series offers readers a fun, comprehensive, and charmingly illustrated visual directory of ideas to inspire skill building in their creative endeavors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631591401
• ISBN13: 9781631591402
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This book is great. It is in good condition and it shipped in the allotted time given. The cost was cheaper than if I had bought it at my school's bookstore, shipping costs inlcuded.

Choose this as a reliable text or source book.

Susan Au's history of ballet & modern dance is intelligent and authoritative. Where other narrative treatments often choose details seemingly randomly, Susan Au builds the narrative from the details she proffers. Nor does she lapse into odd anecdotes often found in other narrative treatments. This book corrects some errors that have been perpetuated in earlier encyclopedic volumes. I wish she had included a short section on antiquity, as I believe that some of the inspiration for and concepts in "classical" ballet and in early modern dance derive from the rediscovery of antiquity -- but this is just quibbling. If you are going to teach 19th and 20th century Western dance history, this is a reliable way to go.

A good overview

I use this book in my ballet history course and it's a very good book for that purpose, that is, for a basic overview on the history of dance. You won't find many details on special subjects, such as specific ballets, but it's great if you want to understand the developement of ballet through the ages and know something about the people who put their marks on the ballet. Lot's of colour photgraphs. Au's use of words is sometimes a bit complicated, at least for someone who doesn't have English for a first language. But a great book.