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    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner: Animals
    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner: Animals
    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner: Animals
    Ebook186 pages37 minutes

    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner: Animals

    By John Davidson, Paolo Lopez de Leon and Adrian Sanqui

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    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner - Animals
    Two books in one, Domestic Animals and Land Animals. Learn to draw from two different artists methods and perspectives. Great learning resource for anyone wanting to start pencil drawing.

    Domestic Animals and Land Animals

    Domestic Animals
    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Introduction:
    Drawing Materials
    Rendering
    Sphere
    Cone
    Cube
    Cylinder
    Application
    Drawing an Outline
    Grid System
    Rendering the Cute Puppy
    Exercises: Drawing and Rendering
    Little Pot Belly Pig
    Little Chick
    Little Duckling
    Little Lamb
    Little Kitten
    Tips to Remember
    Author Bio

    Land Animals
    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Introduction: Drawing tools
    Sketching Animals
    The contour shape
    The planes
    Details
    Furs
    Raccoon
    Lion
    Bison
    Texture
    Armadillo
    Elephant
    Prints
    Tiger
    Shading
    Linear shading
    Imaginary light source
    Tapir
    Smeared shading
    Hippopotamus
    Rhinoceros
    Gaur

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJD-Biz Corp Publishing
    Release dateFeb 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310229091
    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner: Animals
    Author

    John Davidson

    My coauthor John Davidson was a high school teacher for 25 years and volunteered for the Vancouver Crisis Centre. He recently passed away on November 7, 2021.

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    Pencil Drawing For the Beginner - John Davidson

    Learn How to Draw

    Portraits of

    Domestic Animals in Pencil

    for the Absolute Beginner

    Paolo Lopez de Leon

    And

    John Davidson

    Learn to Draw

    Book Series

    JD-Biz Publishing

    Introduction

    If you are fond of animals, and like to learn and draw them, this book is for you. Drawing animals isn’t new, as we know it was already done by our ancestors from 40,000 years ago, mostly seen in Prehistoric cave paintings, it’s painted on walls and ceilings, most images that are drawn were; Horses, Deer, Bison and large wild cattle called Auroch. Their tools for drawing include Charcoal, Hematite, and some coloring pigments. Today we have graphite pencils and other efficient drawing tools, if you can see the style of their drawings, there are already forms, especially there line drawings, They only lack for what I can say are the definition, depth and proportion, I can’t argue of their style, if they did that intentionally or not, as we look and compare it to Renaissance art that have Perspective, Emotion, Light and Shadows, and a Realistic touch.

    This book will help you draw realistic animals in pencil, along the way we will be learning, how we can see through things to make your drawing easy and fun, I will be guiding you through step by step, and after you finish the course you will be drawing animals that you like, like your pet, or friends and neighbors or somebody’s pet, your school drawing projects, you can impress your teacher (a plus from your drawing skill), or make a living out of your Animals Portrait drawings. Which I’m looking forward to, and I will be happy to hear from you, if that day will happen. And also get a copy of my other book Learn How to Draw Portraits of Famous People in Pencil for the Absolute Beginner, it’s a good companion for this book, it will teach you how to draw Human Portraits. And don’t forget to read some other titles.

    Drawing Materials

    Pencils

    The most important tool, made from Graphite with a mixture of Clay, soft pencils like B have little amount of clay or not at all, used for outlining and giving texture to your drawing, comes in different scales: H(Hard), F, HB, and B(Soft) varying grades like 9H(lightest)to 9B(darkest)range.

    For our drawings we need the following: 4H, 2H, F, HB, 2B and 6B, but if you’re short of supplies, you can use HB only, just apply pressure when you want a darker tone and light pressure for light tone.

    Mechanical Pencils

    Like Pencils the lead is also made of Graphite, Good for details, come in handy especially for tight areas, the difference is it doesn’t need a sharpener if the lead breaks, just press the cap on the end of the pencil and it’s good to go, it comes in different sizes: 0.2mm to 5.6mm, for our drawing 0.5 will just be suffice.

    Erasers

    • Kneaded Eraser

    This is like a clay or putty eraser, which can be mold to any difference shape and thickness, depending to your needs, it can lift Graphite in the paper without any damage, good for tight areas, can lighten areas in your drawing, and used for making highlights in your drawings to make it more realistic. Need to be replaced if it is already dark due to accumulation of Graphite.

    • Vinyl Eraser

    This kind of eraser does not smudge the surface of the paper; it can erase hard and tough areas totally especially for large areas, and does not harden.

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