Drawing Birds

Raymond Sheppard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2018
Dover Publications Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-486-82032-3 (ISBN)

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Suitable for beginners as well as advanced artists, this guide provides in-depth studies of the shapes and visual construction of a variety of birds, from domestic fowl to birds on the wing.

British illustrator Raymond Sheppard was celebrated for his nature and animal studies, and this volume combines two of his most valuable guides, How to Draw Birds (1940) and More Birds to Draw (1956). Suitable for beginners as well as advanced artists, this single-volume edition provides in-depth studies of the shapes and visual construction of a variety of birds, from domestic fowl to birds on the wing.

British illustrator Raymond Sheppard (19131958) was celebrated for his drawings of nature and animals for books and magazines. He published three art instructional books with Studio Publications and is perhaps best remembered for a 1952 edition of The Old Man and the Sea, which he co-illustrated with Charles Tunnicliffe.

Introduction 6

The history of

drawing birds 8

Materials 12

How to start 18

BIRD FEATURES 24

Wings 24

Feathers 26

Eyes 28

Beaks and bills 30

Feet 32

BIRDS IN FLIGHT 34

Bird groups 40

Waders and waterbirds 42

Common moorhen step

by step 44

Wildfowl 50

Canada geese step by step 52

Seabirds 58

Atlantic puffin step by step 60

Birds of prey 64

Lanner falcon step by step 66

Owls 72

Snowy owl step by step 74

Garden and woodland birds 80

European goldfinch step by step 82

Game birds 88

Red-legged partridge step jby step 90

Index 96

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	160 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-486-82032-7 / 0486820327
ISBN-13	978-0-486-82032-3 / 9780486820323
Zustand	Neuware