Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.

Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.

What you'll learn about this book ...

• The correct head and facial proportions for both adults and children

• Step-by-step techniques for rendering a variety of heads in numerous positions

• Guidelines for drawing facial features, such as eyes, noses, lips, and ears

• Tips on creating effects to enhance realism, including wrinkles, hair, and backgrounds

• Various drawing styles, from loose and sketchy to tight and detailed...

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In “How to Draw Animals,” well-known artist Walter Foster offers basic tips and advice on this craft, emphasizing that the most important thing is to learn how to make your drawings step by step. Oftentimes the beauty in a drawing is in its simplicity. You will work out a way of starting your drawing as your learn - just be sure it is simple and direct. Your attempts will become easier with understanding - and practice - and once you have this understanding, drawing can be immensely enjoyable. If you make a mistake and spoil a drawing, so what? Take it as part of your training, and not as a catastrophe!...