Drawing: Birds: Learn to draw step by step (How to Draw & Paint)

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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. Drawing: Birds 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.

From the Publisher

Walter Foster Art Books

How to Draw & Paint

The titles in this classic series contain progressive visual demonstrations, expert advice, and simple written explanations that assist novice artists through the next stages of learning. In this series, professional artists walk the reader through the artistic process step by step, from preparation and preliminary sketches to special techniques and final details. Organized into categories of instruction, these books provide an introduction to an array of media and subjects.

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These titles offer both beginning and advanced artists the opportunity to expand their creativity, conquer technical obstacles, and explore new media. Written and illustrated by professional artists, the books in this series are ideal for anyone aspiring to reach a new level of expertise. They serve as useful tools that artists of all skill levels can refer to again and again.

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Birds

By choosing to draw birds, you’ll find never-ending variety to explore with your pencil. The only thing as diverse as the birds themselves is the range of possibilities in how to draw them. By dispensing with color and using a grayscale approach with pencil drawings, you have the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of avian design, focusing your efforts on the values, patterns, and textures of your feathered models. In this book I will show you how to create the basic shapes that give different birds in various habitats and poses their form. Then, through a series of steps, I will help you bring them to life with simple drawing tools and a variety of techniques. Using my notes as a guide, you can render your creations in a way that suits your own style. As you put on the finishing touches, enjoy drawing with a realism that leaves the birds on the page watching you, and ready to fly off the paper.

— Maury Aaseng

Learn how to approach a drawing by starting with basic lines.

Discover how to develop and refine the rendering, step by step.

Follow along through the drawing, building the forms with shading.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1633228509
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walter Foster Publishing; Revised edition (March 3, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781633228504
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633228504
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.25 x 0.35 x 13.8 inches