The Practical Guide to Drawing Animals

Peter Gray

Sep 2013 · Arcturus Publishing

About this ebook

Fascinating, endearing and endlessly varied, animals make inspirational subject matter for artists. In Drawing Animals, author and illustrator Peter Gray guides you through the stages of capturing animal shapes, behaviour and expression to create accomplished artworks. Whether you are a complete beginner or a more experienced draughtsman, the tailored step-by-step exercises and practical tips will help you get the most out of your animal subjects.

This is another title in Arcturus' successful range of Artist's Workbooks, which also includes titles on: Portraits, Figures, Manga, Techniques, Landscape, Animals and Still Life.

Ratings and reviews

While the subject of drawing is difficult to portray in a book they manage to do so with some solid advice. A good starting point for anyone looking to further imrpove their drawing

Basically, the artist demonstrated and explained his personal rendering skills. Every artist, if enough time is invested, can do the same... but it takes 1000s of drawings and hours of practice which the author has clearly invested. The book allows beginners to skip the practices and quickly draw all sorts of animals. I liked the helpful hints!

This is a really good book for artists looking to improve their drawing animals skills. The follow on step by step guide is good, like it's s natural progression which cover the fundamental elements of art. :-)

About the author

Peter Gray is long established as an illustrator of books, magazines and newspapers with occasional forays into such fields as film storyboards and costume design, advertising and animation projects. Peter is also the author of many books for adults and children, which have been published in many languages all around the world.Since graduating from Loughborough College of Art and Design with a specialist degree in illustration, Peter Gray has contributed illustrations to many books, of wide-ranging subject matter, from classic fiction to educational and historical, for UK publishers Penguin Longman and Oxford University Press and Ernst Klett in Germany. Outside book publishing, Peter has worked on storyboards and costume design for the film industry, most recently on Oliver Stone's blockbuster Alexander, and regularly contributes illustrations to national newspapers (Financial Times, Sunday Times) and magazines (The Spectator, Readers' Digest). He lives in Suffolk, UK.