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Complete Book of Drawing
October 15th, 2009The Usborne Complete Book of Drawing by A. Smith & J. Tatchell is an ultimate drawing reference, resource, guidebook that is perfect for children ages 10 years and up. There are 128 pages in this book. This is an inspiring guide to drawing and painting which will appeal to both beginners and those wishing to improve their skills.
Award that this book has earned
Usborne Complete Book of Drawing earned the Pick of The Lists by American Bookseller Award.
What you will find in this Usborne Complete Book of Drawing
The Usborne Complete Book of Drawing features:
- How to draw and color a huge variety of different subjects, in styles ranging from cartoon to collage, using a number of ingenious and effective techniques.
- All of the beautifully finished pictures are accompanied by step-by-step sketches which show how to build up the picture in stages.
A useful reference section provides details of:
- artists' materials,
- what sort of picture style they are suited to, and
- how to use them to maximum effect.
("Whatever the level of your artistic skill, this book will inspire you and give the technical information you need to improve the standard of your drawing and the range of your output." School's Out)
Usborne Complete Book of Drawing
Let's examine the content of this Usborne Complete Book of Drawing:
The book is divided into sections about drawing:
- People (heads and faces, cartoon faces, drawing bodies, people in action, cartoon stereotypes, coloring styles, exaggerating body shapes, caricatures, comic strips, horror show)
- Animals (drawing cats, cats in action, kittens, cartoon cats, wild cats, drawing a horse, the paces, horses in action, show jumping, assorted animals, animal cartoons, sea creatures, flying animals, creepy crawlies)
- Ghosts and monsters (ghosts, skeletons and spooks, monster shapes, dragons and ghouls, human monsters, vampire cartoons, a unicorn)
- Robots, aliens and spacecraft (first robots, androids, alien characters, aliens in action, alien spaceships, rockets, the space shuttle)
- Dinosaurs and prehistoric life (dinosaur giants, cartoon dinosaurs, dinosaur characters, Tyrannosaurus rex, Flying creatures, other prehistoric creatures, prehistoric people)
- Machines (cars, tractors, trucks, trains, planes, bikes, sea vehicles)
- Buildings (a fairytale castle, a haunted house, space city, amazing architecture, bad mood building)
- Maps (world and country maps, old style maps, a fantasy map, haunted castle game)
- Lettering (creative lettering, comic strip lettering, graffiti styles, alphabets to copy)
- Techniques and materials (perspective, artists' materials, glossary)
Just click the link and/or picture above to see it on the Usborne website.
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