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    Animal Sketching for Beginners
    Animal Sketching for Beginners
    Animal Sketching for Beginners
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    Animal Sketching for Beginners

    By Len A. Doust

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    This handy manual provides the confidence, insight, and guidance to help any sketcher create realistic animal drawings. With the help of the author's thirty-one clearly detailed drawings, this basic how-to-guide:
    • illustrates major attributes shared by many animals
    • shows how simple shapes can create complex drawings
    • functions as a valuable anatomy reference
    A source of inspiration for artists at all levels, this book will be especially helpful to beginning art students.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateAug 15, 2012
    ISBN9780486146287
    Animal Sketching for Beginners

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      Animal Sketching for Beginners - Len A. Doust

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is an unabridged republication of The Art of Animal Sketching, published by Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., London and New York, c. 1934.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Doust, L. A. (Len A.)

      [Art of animal sketching]

      Animal sketching for beginners / Len A. Doust ; illustrated by the author.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: The art of animal sketching. London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., 1934.

      9780486146287

      1. Animals in art. 2. Drawing—Technique. I. Title.

      NC780.D67 2006

      743.6—dc22

      2006040318

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y 11501

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION

      THE PLATES

      PREFACE

      And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam.

      —Genesis ii, 19.

      THE study of animals reveals two obvious yet startling views—their remarkable resemblances and their peculiar differences. The finest introduction to animal drawing is a study of the human form, but there is a temptation to humanise the beasts of the field and the fowl of the air. It is as wrong to make a beast human as it is to make a man beastly. Each has its sphere. A man is of a town or village, of a home : a beast is of a field. An ape may superficially resemble a man, and an owl can easily remind one of a cat, but there is no virtue in emphasising these resemblances. What is the use of a drawing where a dog has human eyes ? You had better draw a human with human eyes. When you draw a dog, be sure it is, in every way, a dog. Draw its wolf ancestry, its human training, its peculiar heredity and environment, but above all and before all make it a canine beast.

      INTRODUCTION

      ON glancing through the illustrations in this book you may be surprised at the lack of detail and even finish which they show. I must say at once that this is

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