With
Drawing: Birds,
learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil.
Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find
creative inspiration
and valuable drawing instruction in
Drawing: Birds.
This comprehensive, 10.25 × 13.75–inch book book opens with an introduction to
essential drawing tools,
including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic
drawing techniques,
such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Discover helpful tips for creating a
good composition,
understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking
artistic liberties.
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.
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. Aaseng also shows you how to
create realistic textures,
such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. 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. Easy-to-follow instruction and
art tips
throughout make
Drawing: Birds
a complete guide for creating
realistic and detailed
drawings of these feathered friends. For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a
must-have
art-instruction reference.
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.
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.