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How to Draw: Insects: (How to Draw)

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About the Book

The insect family includes the weird, wonderful, amazing, and totally unexpected.This book is the step-by-step way to learn how to draw a fantastic collection of these strange creature, so making them easy to draw. Author Dandi Palmer shows how you just take simple shapes and build them up in clear stages little by little. This visual and practical approach will have you reaching for your drawing tools time and time again. Here you will find all kinds of wonderful insects, from the more harmless, friendly ladybirds and beautiful butterflies, to predators such as the spiny flower mantis and the wasp. Also included are a dragonfly, a female glow worm, the puss moth caterpillar, and many more. The two-colour line illustrations make the drawing process simple, highlighting every stage, and the final images show what to use if you choose to produce a final, full colour image. You do not have to know how to draw to use this book. Instead, the projects will build up your skills and give you the confidence to create your own drawings. Experienced artists will find this book useful too. It is a great source of ideas and an inspiration for anyone wanting to draw these fascinating creatures.

Table of Contents:
Extremely simple step-by-step drawing method • A variety of insects to draw – ranging from scary predators to beautiful butterflies • Great for absolute beginners or any artists wanting to brush up on their drawing skills

About the Author :
Dandi Palmer has been a professional illustrator for over forty years. She has been commissioned by many publications and organizations including the Radio Times, BBC Focus, Prima and UNESCO. On her website – www.dandipal.uk – you will find a selection of her work including picture books for children, and science fiction, fiction and supernatural/fantasy stories for adults, written under the name of Jane Palmer on www.booksfromdodo.uk

Review :
Mar 13 I’ve been ignoring this series for too long. The reason for not reviewing it before was that there are no words, and how do you review a book that is just a collection of pictures? Well, you can’t, or at least, I can’t. What I can do, though, is talk, not about the individual volumes but the series as a whole. The structure is simple: a single page of developing outlines culminating in a finished (colour) drawing. There are no instructions, just an introduction that is more about the subject than the techniques, so you’re completely on your own. And yet. The series must be successful because it’s been around forever and new volumes appear almost every month. The latest is about insects and that’s what’s stimulated this write-up. I contend, your honour, that if a series gets to insects, it must be striking a chord with its public. I’m pretty confident that this is the only book you’ll find on drawing insects, and also that there won’t be any more along any time soon. To cover such a niche subject, the publisher has to be either very sure of their ground or a bunch of complete idiots. I’ll admit to having doubts about the sanity of some publishing decisions, but not usually those of Search Press. As sure-footed a crowd as you’ll come across, they are. So, see if there’s something here for you and, if you like things as basic as they can be, there probably will be. June 13 With virtually no text, this simple step-by-step book will have you drawing bugs, butterflies and moths in a flash. Each insect is reduced to its simplest form, before being brought to life with well-considered pencil lines that are clearly shown. Sept 13 Here is the latest title in the popular How To Draw series, this time focusing on a more unusual subject--the wonderful world of insects. If you haven’t seen any of the other titles, this is a series that shows you how to draw a set of themed subjects in about eight stages. It starts with the simplest shapes, with each new stage showing what has been added to the drawing in a different color. The final two pictures usually show the image shaded in with pencil, and then painted in color. This book shows the insect as a line drawing in black ink, and then the same inked drawing with the addition of colored pencils. Some of the titles leave out too many stages between the last simple stage and the first shaded pencil depiction but not this one. The clear, crisp lines of the ink are ideal for these slightly simplified but attractive studies of insect life, although the colored pencils are a bit pale to truly capture some of the lovely hues of the brighter specimens. Apart from a brief introduction this is, like all the others in the series, a book where the pictures do the talking. There is a list to help identification, and you can then choose from a lissom dragonfly, ball-rolling dung beetle, impressive hornet, huge goliath beetle and my own favorite the beautiful oleander hawk moth, plus twenty-three others. This is one of the best titles in the series, truly suitable for a beginner and a lot of fun to work through.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844484478
  • Publisher: Search Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Search Press Ltd
  • Height: 292 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844484475
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: How to Draw


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