Illustration School: Let’s Draw Cute Animals

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Illustration School: Let’s Draw Cute Animals offers easy instructions for artists, crafters, and complete beginners who want to sketch and draw in the popular Japanese character style.
Sachiko Umoto’s engaging, relaxing techniques include a primer on drawing basics, plus detailed steps for creating animals from start to finish, including deer, sheep, horses, giraffes, dolphins, and more. Learn about essential materials, then discover the best methods for starting and adding onto a drawing, and incorporating shading and color.
Sachiko’s instructions are so easy to follow, you’ll be creating a whole menagerie in your sketchbook in no time. Create a marching dog, a sleepy bear, and a bouncy bunny.
Trace or copy the designs, then enhance them with unique doodles and details to make them your own. Add color for even more punch. Sachiko’s illustrations will inspire you to incorporate drawings into art journal pages, book art, planners, scrapbooks, and cards. Connect with the world and share your creations with friends and family.
Using these techniques, you’ll discover how to:

Draw cute character faces that come alive Easily incorporate details such as fur, patterns, wings, and hornsGet ideas for taking your illustrations further with cute poses and facial expressionsBe inspired by ideas for drawing animals in their surroundingsAdd fun scene-setting extras, such as footprints, food, plants, and more

Take this book with you wherever you, and have fun practicing drawing the cutest animals around. Grab a pencil and get started!
Discover how the Illustration School series of books makes drawing enjoyable and stress-free. Using Sachiko Umoto’s fun, easy techniques for sketching quirky animals, plants, landscapes, and people in the Japanese character style, you’ll fill pages with charming illustrations that are uniquely you. 

From the Publisher

To the Reader…

They say that “learning” begins by “imitating,” so I have filled this book with a lot of illustrations that you can draw by copying. Take your time, look at each illustration one by one, then choose one you like and try tracing or drawing one yourself. Your drawing doesn’t have to turn out just like the example, so don’t worry if it doesn’t turn out exactly the same. Think about how you would draw the picture and arrange its parts any which way you choose!

The trick to enjoying illustration is showing your work to other people. “Don’t you think this is cute?” “This is really funny-looking, isn’t it?” Ask your family and friends these questions when you show them your drawings. If even a little bit of what you wanted to express gets across to them each time you show them a drawing, there is no doubt that illustrating will become more and more fun.

How to Enjoy This Book…

Choose One

Look for your favorite character. Ask your friends and family what characters they like.

Imitate It

Look at the page on the left and use the guide to casually trace what you see.

Modify It

Try changing the expression of your drawing. You can make different poses, or add different colors.

Show It

Show your friends and family the pages you have doodled on, or the notebooks and memo pads you have drawn on.

Learning some basic skills helps make drawing easy. But, remember, the basics are nothing more than a fundamental starting point.

Draw larger shapes first

Draw the head before you draw the eyes or the nose, draw the body before you draw the hands, feet, or other patterns. Try to get an idea of the overall shape before you add the fine details.

Draw from top to bottom, right to left

Pick up your pen or pencil and try waving it around. Can you feel how natural it is to move it from top to bottom or right to left? (Or left to right, if you are left-handed!)

Draw the head before you draw the body

When you draw the head, you can get a feel for your animal’s personality and what it is probably thinking at the time. This makes it easier for you to decide how to draw the rest of the body

Apply different pressures to the tip of your pen

Press hard when you draw the solid parts and lightly when you draw the soft parts. You can draw a lot of different lines with the same pen just by applying different amounts of pressure.

Kangaroos raise their young in their stomach pouches. Newborn cubs will find their own ways into their mother’s pouch.

First, draw the nose, head, triangular eyes and ears.

Draw a big body and powerful hind legs and a stomach with a pocket.

Finish by drawing the forelegs and tail, and a baby kangaroo in its pouch!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (October 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159253645X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592536450
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.5 x 8 inches