Draw Like an Artist

100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects

Melissa Washburn

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Quarry Books
03 November 2020

Art & Architecture; Drawing & drawings; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes); Painting & art manuals

Series: Draw Like an Artist

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 style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to:

Establish basic shapes and symmetry

Articulate lines for body shapes, wing forms, and shading

Add defining details

Draw 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.

By: Melissa Washburn
Imprint: Quarry Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781631599477
ISBN 10: 163159947X
Series: Draw Like an Artist
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 03 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melissa Washburn is an artist/illustrator/graphic designer and the author of two books in Quarrys Draw Like an Artist series: 100 Flowers and Plants and 100 Realistic Animals. She grew up in upstate New York, in the foothills of the Adirondacks, but has lived in the Midwest since 1996. Her fascination with things that run, fly, and grow has led to editorial commissions for publications such as Edible Indy, Charlotte Home and Garden, and Spirituality & Health magazine. She continues to exhibit her work throughout Northwest Indiana as well as illustrate and design for advertising, editorial, textiles, and package design. Her background includes a bachelor of fine arts in painting and printmaking from Binghamton University, a masters degree in arts administration from Indiana University, coursework at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and experience as Art Director at advertising firm Group 7even. She was a 2012-2013 recipient of an Individual Artist Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission. She lives just outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana. You can see more of her work at melissawashburn.com.