Drawing Animals

by Hugh Laidman

Book Overview

An expert guide by a well-known teacher and artist offers sound advice on methods and techniques for artists at all levels. Step-by-step instructional drawings of 26 animals, wild and domestic, appear... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486432076
• ISBN13: 9780486432076
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

From simple beginnings to the elaborate end

"Drawing Animals" by Hugh Laidman Laidman takes 1 or 2 pages to devote to drawing a single animal, such as a horse. The page will have about 9 illustrations of the horse, starting with the most generalized rough shapes with line and oval, and each subsequent drawing is a refinement of the first rough sketch. I like the idea. But what if a timid beginner feels overwhelmed by this method? That's where the good news comes in. Author Hugh Laidman offers 5 pages at the beginning of the books with simpler, more elementary animal shapes composed of spheres of various shapes. It's a nice methodology of assisting the student overcome his "jitters". Actually, there are quite a few pages of horses, mixed in with the tigers, elephants geese, dogs, cats, sheep, cows, gorillas, baboons, leopards, lions and eagles, and other creatures. At first glance, some of these sequences might appear intimidating, but if one looks throughout the book, it is shown that Laidman gives many rougher and simpler sketches for every creature he shows. Laidman's final sketches are of an "expert" quality. As a Dover edition, this book comes at a bargain price. I do recommend it.