Drawing & Painting Wild Animals

by Vic Bearcroft

Overview

Award-winning animal artist Vic Bearcroft presents his versatile and complete guide to all aspects of drawing and painting wild animals of all types. Learn how to draw tigers, zebras, pandas, elephants, chimpanzees, wolves and even sloths- learning new techniques, selecting the right paint media and getting the essence of the animal in the wild.

In this reissue of his popular book, Vic Bearcroft shares his love of drawing and painting wild animals, showing how to capture the personality and distinctive features of a variety of creatures. Using simple steps and plenty of detail, this guide shows you how to create beautiful artworks, from drawing the basic shapes through to realizing your favourite animals in your preferred medium.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782217879
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	11/19/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Vic Bearcroft is a self-taught professional wildlife and pet portrait artist, who specialises in pastel on velour, but also works in pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil, charcoal and acrylic media. Having spent part of his childhood in Kenya, Vic has been drawing animals since he could hold a pencil. Being passionate about wildlife in general, and particularly in wolves, Vic works with a large number of animal welfare and conservation organisations worldwide, donating prints, merchandise and funds. He says: "While I consider myself to be a wildlife artist, I prefer to paint close-up intimate portraits of animals as individuals, rather than in landscape settings. My aim is to capture not only the likeness of the subject in my painting, but also the life and soul in its eyes."

Table of Contents

The author is extremely well-informed on animals; and imparts subtle but vital information on portraying them effectively
Multiple media makes it accessible to all artists
Drawing titles are popular
Animals are a perennial favourite

Editorial Reviews

"The main topics are cats, ungulates, bears, pachyderms and apes, as good a division as any and one which separates out quite different builds that have different requirements and approaches, to which Vic gives proper attention."  —The Artist (August 2012)

"Vic is a master of his craft, but also a good and generous teacher and the book is full of helpful information that makes it one of the best guides to the subject that I've seen in a long time." —Paint magazine (September 2012)

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