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Animal Sketching (Dover Art Instruction)

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The author says "...the object of this book, which really is to create a stimulant to the younger artist, to draw things as he sees them, has fulfilled its purpose." I am neither young nor an artist but I find this little book very stimulating. If you browse the book you will see very simple animal sketches. Many of them are so simple that I thought I could do them better, so I tried. And this is the important thing, I tried, I copied the sketches in the book. Maybe one sketch has only a few lines and maybe you get some/all of them right, but what do you think of the overall result? Could it be better? Just do it again, after all it only takes a moment, there are only a few lines to draw.
I have only tried with the sketches in the book and I have yet to try with living animals (dogs, cats, cows,...) I wanted a book on animal sketching and, besides the title, this es the content of this book.
I highly recommend this book.

This charming little book is instructional and includes lots of animal sketches to practice your drawings of disparate species. Enlightening and recommended.

It was fun to see the Calder drawings, I was much more familar with his sculpture and enjoyed these drawings. Calder's work always has attracted me and I was happy to find another facet.