Draw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects: Step-by-Step Realistic Line Drawing - A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists and Designers (Volume 5)

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Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful winged forms, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, fantasy and scientific illustrators, urban sketchers—anyone who’s seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. This contemporary, step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art concepts like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a full range of winged creatures, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn’s clear and elegant drawing stylewill make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to:Establish basic shapes and symmetryArticulate lines for body shapes, wing forms, and shadingAdd defining detailsDraw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects is a library essential for any artist interested in learning how to draw the fascinating forms of birds and winged insects. The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators. Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book SECTION 1: BIRDS Eagle Hawk Peregrine Falcon Gull Sandpiper Cormorant Tern Pelican Cuckoo Emu Spoonbill Stork Turkey Pheasant Wood Duck Canada Goose Loon Puffin Swan Barn Owl Toucan Macaw Cockatoo Cassowary Kakapo Bird of Paradise Weaverbird Honeycreeper Green Heron Thrush Cardinal Cedar Waxwing Quail Finch Sparrow Titmouse Oriole Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher Swallow Peacock Downy Woodpecker Wren Nuthatch Kingfisher Warbler Blue Jay Crow Mockingbird Dove Vulture Whip-Poor-Will Feathers Songbird Wing Hawk/Raptor Wing Feet: Songbird Feet: Shorebird/Water Bird Feet: Bird of Prey Feet: Woodpecker Hawk in Flight Songbird in Flight SECTION 2: BUTTERFLIES Monarch Butterfly Swallowtail Butterfly Blue Butterfly Question Mark Butterfly Skipper Butterfly Buckeye Butterfly Checkerspot Butterfly Birdwing Butterfly Fritillary Butterfly Sulphur Butterfly SECTION 3: MOTHS Cecropia Moth Luna Moth Tiger Moth Underwing Moth Sphinx Moth Flannel Moth SECTION 4: BEES AND WASPS Honeybee Bumblebee Sweat Bee Wasp SECTION 5: BEETLES Ladybug Longhorn Beetle Scarab Beetle Flower Beetle Leatherwing Beetle Firefly Rhinoceros Beetle June Bug/Chafer Beetle Weevil SECTION 6: OTHER INSECTS Leaf-Footed Bug Lacewing Cricket Grasshopper Dragonfly Damselfly Housefly Praying Mantis Katydid Cicada Stick Insect Acknowledgments About the Author