Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animals: Step-by-Step Realistic Line Drawing **A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and Designers [Paperback]

Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful animal forms, detailed faces, and more,Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animals is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, scientific illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills.

This contemporary,step-by-step guidebookdemonstratesfundamental art conceptslike proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as youlearn to draw a full range of creatures, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing.

Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whoseclear and elegant drawing stylewill make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Realistic Animalsis the third book in theDraw Like an Artist seriesfollowing Faces and FiguresandFlowers and Plants.

The books in theDraw Like an Artist seriesare richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.

Melissa Washburnis an artist/illustrator/graphic designer and the author of three books in Quarry's Draw Like an Artist series:100 Flowers and Plants, 100 Realistic Animals,and100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects. She grew up in upstate New York, in the foothills of the Adirondacks, but has lived in the Midwest since 1996. Her fascination with things that run, fly, and grow has led to editorial commissions for publications such asCharlotte Home and Garden, Spirituality & Healthmagazine, andSmithsonian Magazine. She continues to exhibit her work throughout Northwest Indiana as well as illustrate and design for advertising, editorial, surface design, and package design. Her backglÃu