Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals by Jane Maday

Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals by Jane Maday ISBN-13: 9781440353321 Paperback: 112 pages Publisher: North Light Books Released: Dec. 4, 2018

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
In her newest instructional book Jane Maday, queen of cuteness, teaches you how to draw cute animal friends. After you draw the animal from photo references using the grid method, Jane will guide you through simple techniques for adding colored pencil, watercolor and pen and ink. 35 step-by-step demonstrations cover the gamut of the cute animal kingdom from cats and kittens, dogs and puppies, chipmunks, songbird and ducklings, and even flamingos and frogs!


My Review:
Draw and Paint Super Cute Animals is an art instruction book about coloring and texturing cute animals. The author uses mixed media, including graphite pencils, colored pencils, ink pens, and watercolor. She has you use the grid method and transfer paper to get the animal drawing onto your final piece of paper. She provided 35 step-by-step demonstrations that started at this point and then detailed what colors she used, what type of paint or pencil she used, and basically described how to add color and texture (like fur) to the animals. Each demonstration consisted of 3 to 5 steps per an animal.

The demonstrations were: two of bunnies, three of cats, three of dogs, and a wolf, fox, baby skunk, fawn, chipmunk, squirrel, mouse, fall leaf, lamb, duckling, donkey, pig, titmice (birds), flamingo, Chickadee, Goldfinch, owl, dolphin, puffin, seal, panda, Brown bear, polar bear, otter, turtle, frog, and butterfly. Many of her demonstration animals were baby animals. She also talked about posing the animal and backgrounds for the scene. Overall, I'd recommend this book to those focused on the coloring and texturing of animals rather than those needing step-by-step drawing instructions.


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