Drawing: Birds by Maury Aaseng

Drawing: Birds by Maury Aaseng ISBN-13: 9781633228504 Paperback: 40 pages Publisher: Walter Foster Publishing Released: March 3rd 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
This book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Jump into the easy step-by-step projects to draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees.

In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng shows you how to create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. With his easy step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic.


My Review:
Drawing: Birds is an art instruction book on how to draw birds with graphite pencil. The author started by briefly discussing the tools, materials, and basic pencil drawing techniques (for shading and such). He then went into step-by-step projects for how to draw an owl, heron, hummingbird, parrot, woodpecker, and chickadees. He also did sidebars describing how to draw specific parts like the beak or feathers and textures like tree bark and water. The step-by-step projects were basically what pencil to use and what order to add detail and shading. The finished projects were highly detailed and look like a lot of work, though he stated that they take less work than they appear to. I'd recommend this short book to artists who have at least some basic drawing experience and who want to improve their bird drawings.


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