Take your colored pencil skills to the next level and create a dazzling artistic menagerie!From songbirds to a soft-furred lynx, from a showy fish to a serene sloth, learn to draw realistic and beautiful animals in colored pencil.With tutorials for rendering textures, creating luminous color, getting animal proportions right, and more, this is the perfect guide for anyone wishing to make the most of their pencils.Step-by-step lessons take you from rough sketch to fully rendered drawing.Along the way you’ll learn indispensable colored pencil techniques for vividness and realism. You’ll also learn the subtle art of making drawings come alive.Full color throughout.132 pages.7-1/4 inches wide by 9-1/2 inches high.Author Liu Xiaone has a master’s degree in design arts and has written and illustrated several books on design and painting. She enjoys drawing plants, hand lettering, natural indigo dyeing, and her three cats.
