This extensive, step-by-step guide to drawing animals, created by
artist and veterinarian Mari Suzuki, offers a unique viewpoint on the
animal form.
With her unique perspective as both an artist and a veterinarian, Mari
Suzuki provides meticulous instruction on how to draw a host of animals.
Exploring everything from a corgi's expressions to a lion pouncing,
Drawing Animals 101 teaches the basics in a way even beginners can
grasp: the different proportions of various creatures, simple skeletal
forms, how muscles attach, and other physical fundamentals. While an
array of animals is included--from pandas and penguins to kangaroos and
elephants--dogs and cats provide the template, because we can easily
observe them and their wide range of movements. Each step-by-step
project is done in pencil, giving the work a genuine figure-drawing feel
for the winged and four-footed.