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Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals: Simple Techniques for Creating Animals with Personality – Includes 66 Step-by-Step Tutorials
Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals presents practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting animals in a variety of mediums and styles, from realistic to cartoon.
With accessible, encouraging guidance from Amarilys Henderson—artist, popular online instructor, and author of Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces—explore:
Basic Supplies. Learn about the sketching and painting mediums you’ll use in your work, including watercolor, inks, gouache, and markers.
Essential Elements. Discover the scope of animals’ sizes, shapes, and features, from nose to tail.
Emotion and Expression. Learn how to adjust basic shapes, postures, and poses to convey a range of animal emotions and expressions, from sly and sneaky to angry to curious.
Animal Tutorials. Draw and paint more than 30 animals—from favorites like horses, bunnies, and birds to exotics like cheetahs, rhinos, and koalas—and investigate 11 different “style twists,” including using color in unique ways, enhancing cuteness, and playing with other mediums.
As you discover your creative options, you’ll find that working small is an easy way to relieve pressure and open yourself to play as well as to learning the techniques and approaches that Amarilys shares in this book.
Find your favorite way to portray a variety of animals, from cute little critters to big, strong beasts, in Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Animals!
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Amazon Customer –
The instruction included in this book is very informative. I like the variety of animals to draw and I’m having fun working through the book.
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Sarah McCraley –
This book is a good reference tool from a really great artist.
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IK –
This book arrived earlier than expected. It is an excellent book to help paint expressive little animals.
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No Ordinary Tomato –
Useful, easy-to-follow and ultimately delightful book from one of my favorite art instructors. The step-by-step tutorials are simple yet comprehensive. And the author gives tips for interpreting and executing the artwork in unexpected ways. Buy with confidence – you won’t be disappointed. And consider following Amaryllis Henderson on Skillshare as well. She has published many wonderful classes.
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Flora –
Let’s face it -animals are hard to draw! People wanting to draw and paint nice looking animals will find Amarilys Henderson’s book really useful. It may still be a bit hard, especially for the absolute beginner, but I always believe that, as with anything, practice makes perfect.
I liked that the step-by-step drawings use a different color for each subsequent step so that you don’t have to figure out what are the new steps. Every step-by-step drawing book should do that! I loved the style twists such as the flower wreaths and letterings in animal silhouettes. Those are fun!
As a visual person, I find that painting lessons are better in video formats so I always want to suggest that online access to videos be available, though I’m aware that it would make the book too costly. The step-by-step instructions and paintings are adequate in this book.
I was surprised to see that the colors listed in each painting are Dr Ph. Martins Concentrated Watercolors but I suppose you could use any brand of watercolors especially if you use different colors to express the emotion and expression of the animals as suggested by the author.
I enjoy the author’s style a lot and look forward to her next publication!
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Tabs –
This book is full of instructions on how to draw and paint adorable little animals. I mainly bought it for the wild animals but wish they had included domestic/pet cats in the book! Still super cute book with a lot of instructions
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Michelle Cornish –
This book is a gem for anyone wanting to learn to draw or paint animals better! Steps for completing each animal are very clear with written instructions as well as drawings to follow for each step. Between the covers of this book, you will find domestic animals, wild animals, exotic animals, and even birds. I loved the focus sections on eyes and expressions – super helpful!
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C.M. & T.M. –
The thing i really appreciate and love about this particular book is that it not only offers information on how to draw animals, it gives information on how to paint them (or color with different mediums- you can adapt the lessons in the book to suit any color medium) so that it’s a complete experience. I own a ton of “how to draw” books and very few of them offer information on how to finish them in color- you kind of have to pick up books on color and then hope there is a project in there that’s similar to what you have drawn and then sort of figure out how to adapt the color to the drawing projects you are working on. That’s great for learning, but for someone like me, with barely any time and a desire to really develop my drawing/rendering skills quickly, having a book that walks me through all the steps of a project is a HUGE benefit.
As I have worked through several of the projects in the book, I am already finding myself learning about how color can be used to convey shadow and highlight, as well as bring a lot of personality and life to the drawing.
I really appreciate this book- I’m sure that the author has the next in the series already in the development stages, but I hope it’s a book on botanicals. So many drawing books on flowers and leaves and trees and landscapes, but very few that really walk you from the first few strokes of a pencil to the last layer of color.
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srh –
I like this book so much as an addition to my other reference books. It really does give some ideas to make your watercolor animals more realistic. Great value.
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tom –
The author of the book does a wonderful job teaching and simplifying art into a step by step that anyone can follow, also the illustrations are sweet and charming. I have had a hard time finding art books that were both informative and appropriate for a young girl. This books nails it.
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acc –
Guides you well to draw animals. Like that it’s simple. You can always add details as you get more practice.
Amazon Customer –
The instruction included in this book is very informative. I like the variety of animals to draw and I’m having fun working through the book.
Sarah McCraley –
This book is a good reference tool from a really great artist.
IK –
This book arrived earlier than expected. It is an excellent book to help paint expressive little animals.
No Ordinary Tomato –
Useful, easy-to-follow and ultimately delightful book from one of my favorite art instructors. The step-by-step tutorials are simple yet comprehensive. And the author gives tips for interpreting and executing the artwork in unexpected ways. Buy with confidence – you won’t be disappointed. And consider following Amaryllis Henderson on Skillshare as well. She has published many wonderful classes.
Flora –
Let’s face it -animals are hard to draw! People wanting to draw and paint nice looking animals will find Amarilys Henderson’s book really useful. It may still be a bit hard, especially for the absolute beginner, but I always believe that, as with anything, practice makes perfect.
I liked that the step-by-step drawings use a different color for each subsequent step so that you don’t have to figure out what are the new steps. Every step-by-step drawing book should do that! I loved the style twists such as the flower wreaths and letterings in animal silhouettes. Those are fun!
As a visual person, I find that painting lessons are better in video formats so I always want to suggest that online access to videos be available, though I’m aware that it would make the book too costly. The step-by-step instructions and paintings are adequate in this book.
I was surprised to see that the colors listed in each painting are Dr Ph. Martins Concentrated Watercolors but I suppose you could use any brand of watercolors especially if you use different colors to express the emotion and expression of the animals as suggested by the author.
I enjoy the author’s style a lot and look forward to her next publication!
Tabs –
This book is full of instructions on how to draw and paint adorable little animals. I mainly bought it for the wild animals but wish they had included domestic/pet cats in the book! Still super cute book with a lot of instructions
Michelle Cornish –
This book is a gem for anyone wanting to learn to draw or paint animals better! Steps for completing each animal are very clear with written instructions as well as drawings to follow for each step. Between the covers of this book, you will find domestic animals, wild animals, exotic animals, and even birds. I loved the focus sections on eyes and expressions – super helpful!
C.M. & T.M. –
The thing i really appreciate and love about this particular book is that it not only offers information on how to draw animals, it gives information on how to paint them (or color with different mediums- you can adapt the lessons in the book to suit any color medium) so that it’s a complete experience. I own a ton of “how to draw” books and very few of them offer information on how to finish them in color- you kind of have to pick up books on color and then hope there is a project in there that’s similar to what you have drawn and then sort of figure out how to adapt the color to the drawing projects you are working on. That’s great for learning, but for someone like me, with barely any time and a desire to really develop my drawing/rendering skills quickly, having a book that walks me through all the steps of a project is a HUGE benefit.
As I have worked through several of the projects in the book, I am already finding myself learning about how color can be used to convey shadow and highlight, as well as bring a lot of personality and life to the drawing.
I really appreciate this book- I’m sure that the author has the next in the series already in the development stages, but I hope it’s a book on botanicals. So many drawing books on flowers and leaves and trees and landscapes, but very few that really walk you from the first few strokes of a pencil to the last layer of color.
srh –
I like this book so much as an addition to my other reference books. It really does give some ideas to make your watercolor animals more realistic. Great value.
tom –
The author of the book does a wonderful job teaching and simplifying art into a step by step that anyone can follow, also the illustrations are sweet and charming. I have had a hard time finding art books that were both informative and appropriate for a young girl. This books nails it.
acc –
Guides you well to draw animals. Like that it’s simple. You can always add details as you get more practice.