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Thunder Lizards!: How to Draw Fantastic Dinosaurs (Fantastic Fantasy Comics)

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What a wonderful book. This covers all types of dinosaurs from T-Rexes to flying bird dinosaurs. Hundreds of great drawings throughout. I can't draw but I still enjoyed looking at it and my ten year old son will not put the thing down. He was allowed to take one book on our vacation and he chose this one. I don't think he put it down for the whole 6 hour drive to Disneyland. There are some technical drawings of skeletons and muscles and stuff I don't think he understands yet, but the how to steps are easy enough for him to follow. Highly recommended if you have a dinosaur lover or artist in the family.

You may think me biased, since some of my reconstructions where used in the book, but I did not write any of it (and I don't recieve royalties based on sales). While there are a few nit-picky details I would change, this is easily the best book on how to draw dinosaurs ever made. It is the only one where the reader is given a short anatomy lesson, and shown skeletal reconstructions so artists can learn how to reconstruct extinct animals themselves. It also shows off the remarkable diversity of dinosaurs to good advantage. Highly recomended.

This is probably the best book on drawing dinosaurs out there, especially for adults. There isn't just one artist's dinosaurs pictured into this "how-to" book, but artwork from Brett Booth and Bryan Baugh as well. Many dinosaurs are featured in here, including Triceratops, Spinosaurs, Therizinosaurus, Chirostenotes, Saltasaurus, and dozens more. Generally depending on which dinosaur you are drawing, it can take you between 1-4 steps to complete your picture. Also, there is information for each dinosaur you draw, which makes it all the more interesting. The artwork is very detailed and sleek. Excellent for any beginner or if you're just trying to brush up on your skills.

Actually there aren't many good dinosaur drawing books out there, except for little kids, which aren't that good, this book teaches dino anatomy, texturing to an extent, and is educational about certain facts about dinos and how information about them changes since dino experts are still learning about them, so facts have to be taken into account when drawing dinos, like how the Raptors in Jurassic Park where actually only 3 feet tall and that Utah Raptors species was actually 6 feet tall, of course the book emphasizes practicing your drawing skills and how dinos should be drawn.

Steve must have spent many, many hours researching the material for this book! He not only shows us how to draw, he has added pertinent facts and commentary that make his book refreshingly entertaining as well as instructive! This book is for all ages of readers and artists!

I have enjoyed reading Steve Miller's how to draw series and this is one of my favorite. The guide is pretty much simple and easy to follow. Suitable for young artists from around 12 years old and up. It has great quick steps which artist can draw in an hour with good result. It is worth to keep for a long time where you can always go back and draw new creatures. I have been using this book for references for my artwork and I still look at it every once in a while.