Drawing cute animals in colored pencil

Ai Akikusa, 1975-

Book - 2014

Offers step-by-step, illustrated instructions for drawing animals using colored pencils, including elephants, polar bears, lions, penguins, and deer, with tips on drawing animal hair and experimenting with colors. --Publisher's description.

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Published
Beverly, MA : Quarry 2014.
Language
English
Japanese
Main Author
Ai Akikusa, 1975- (-)
Item Description
Translation of: Iroenpitsu de kawaii dōbutsu.
Originally published in Japanese by PIE International, 2011.
Physical Description
109 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
ISBN
9781592539369
  • Rabbit
  • Squirrel
  • Alpaca
  • Deer
  • Pig
  • Elephant
  • Polar bear
  • Lion
  • Whose footprints?
  • Parent and child
  • Good night
  • Hippopotamus
  • Giraffe
  • Fox
  • Kangaroo
  • Animals of Australia
  • Pelican
  • Penguin
  • Lemur
  • Bat
  • Whose bum?
  • New year's cards with animals
  • Experimenting with colors
  • All about animal's hair.
Review by Library Journal Review

This guide offers exercises and tips for rendering a wide variety of animals naturalistically in colored pencil. It is loaded with simple exercises that walk the reader through drawing all sorts of wild and domestic animals worldwide, pointing out the unique details of each along the way. The ideal audience for this book is older children and tweens, for whom its contents offer an educational aspect-each animal's Latin species and family name is supplied as well as information about its size. -VERDICT This guide is best for younger readers, but their parents may be charmed by it as well. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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