Learn to Draw Realistic Animals with Pen & Marker

From an Armadillo to a Zebra 26 Animals to Discover & Draw!

D. L. Miller

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781607658313
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art Techniques

Capture the hard shell of a turtle, the straggly hair of a llama, and the coarse skin of an iguana! With Learn to Draw Realistic Animals with Pen & Marker, aspiring artists will learn how to draw extremely detailed animal portraits using affordable felt tip pens and markers. Both beginning and experienced artists will practice drawing 26 amazing animals from A to Z and all of their unique features and textures, including elephants, frogs, koalas, sloths, and more. With step-by-step instructions and illustrations, drawing techniques include stippling, cross-hatching, and more to create tons of realistic details. Also included with each drawing project are reference photos and fun facts pertaining to each animal!

Textures and Techniques

Learning to draw a wide range of animal textures, from fur to scales, requires learning many line patterns and techniques. None are complicated, but it does take practice to understand which type of line will best mimic the short fur on a mouse body compared to the long and thick coat found on a llama, or which type of line creates the dry, bumpy feel found on a toad versus the wet, smooth feel found on a whale.

As with any activity requiring hand and eye coordination, it is crucial to visualize the path you want to take. You’ll need to study the animal closely and think through the predominant line styles needed to best capture the look and feel of the animal you want to draw. Each animal in this book comes with a list of the primary types of line techniques you’ll need to use to create the animal, but before you start putting pen to paper, I highly recommend taking the time to do a few practice runs with the techniques and line styles that best mimic the animal surface you’re about to draw.

You’ll learn how to build up the realistic look and feel of each of these animals by combining different line techniques.

Practice Strokes for Fine-tipped Pens

Drawing is surprisingly active; it requires not only total concentration of the mind but also that you physically loosen up your fingers, hand, and arms. I recommend drawing practice columns to warm up before starting a drawing or just to experiment with textures and pens.

Outline each column first to a ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Pens and Paper
• Textures and Techniques
• Building Detail in Layers
• Armadillo
• Box turtle
• Cat
• Dog
• Elephant
• Ferret
• Giraffe
• Hedgehog
• Iguana
• Jellyfish
• Koala
• Llama
• Mouse
• Newt
• Opossum
• Pig
• Quokka
• Rattlesnake
• Sloth
• Toad
• Urial
• Vampire Bat
• Whale
• Xerus
• Yak
• Zebra
• About the Author
• Image Credits