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title: "The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Art Instruction)"
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# The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Art Instruction)

**Brand:** ken hultgren
**Price:** 3772 kr
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- **What is this?** The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Art Instruction) by ken hultgren
- **How much does it cost?** 3772 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful Resource For Drawing Animals
*by L***A on November 26, 2014*

A wonderful resource for any artist interested in drawing some well-known animals; such as, horses or dogs. The sketching by Hultgren is phenomenal. This is NOT a book for beginning artist. If you are looking for a drawing book that gives you the step-by-step instructions using circles, triangles, and lines, you will not find that in this book. Other books are available that will give you this type of instruction.Hultgren comes more from the viewpoint that you already have a fundamental understanding on how to draw. He does offer tips on drawing animals, but it is more advanced than draw three circles, then connect this circle to this circle. He speaks more of the specific elements of different animals; such as, verbally instructing you to divide the animal into three parts - forequarters, belly, and rear - and drawing a dorsal line between these parts. He also provides a section on mood and feeling that I found interesting and personally helpful. Furthermore, sections on the use of line, action analysis, and brush technique are included.Now to get down to the specific animals Hultgren covers. For me the selection worked well, but it is not all encompassing. It couldn't possibly be, or else you wouldn't even be able to pick up the darn book. He offers detailed instruction on the Horse Family, Deer Family, the Cat Family, and the Bear Family. These are the most detailed sections of the book offering instruction drawing the skeletal and muscular structure of the animal. These sections also provide instruction on action, motion, specific body parts, and types of the animal. For instance, the lioness or the draft horse.The other chapters of the book feature cows and bulls, giraffes, camels, gorillas, pigs, dogs, foxes, kangaroos, rabbits, squirrels, and elephants are not as detailed and do not offer instruction on muscular drawing. Additionally, each animal section offers a short introduction to caricature from 1/2 page to a maximum of 2 pages. I personally enjoyed looking at the caricatures. Not all of them were "typical" cartoon drawing. The final chapter in the book covers composition in animal grouping. It gives the artist the fundamental principals behind animal grouping composition.This book is one of my favorites because it has really challenged my drawing abilities. I highly recommend this as a resource to those who have a fundamental understanding of drawing. For those of you starting out in drawing, I would recommend you find another resource first before pursuing this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Valuable instruction on enhancing animal drawings from a former Disney animator
*by S***R on December 30, 2023*

Pictures are worth a thousand words. I don’t need to be told beforehand, or as I’m looking through the pages, that this guide was written and drawn by someone with a background in animation. The animals drawn here are full of life and look like they want to leap across and out of the pages. Examples and techniques emphasize realistically rendered animals, though there’s the occasional page demonstrating how to draw caricatures, which look more like what you’d expect from Disney cartoons. In my opinion this guide is not for beginners, but rather for those who already have a grasp of the foundations of proportion, form, and rendering, and are looking for ways to instill more life, fluidity, and dynamics into animal drawings. There’s no step by step handholding or detailed tutorials on the basics of setting up and building on a drawing. The author assumes you already know most of that. I was a lapsed artist who used this book as motivation to get back into animal drawing. I recommend it for intermediate-advanced artists who want to take animal illustration further.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by S***B on May 5, 2023*

A lot of details but a bit excessive with the horse illustration in the first half of the book. Other than that the book has some good lessons on how to draw. I wish the author gave more caricatures examples though.

## Frequently Bought Together

- The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Art Instruction)
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- The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals

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