Learn to draw enchanted Princesses
Anyone who who wants to draw Disney princesses (and other Disney heroines!) can’t go past this awesome book. It takes you step by step through how to draw all them all, from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to Tiana and Rapunzel. It’s pretty detailed: first it teaches you how to draw their basic figure, then their face and after you’ve mastered those you can work on action poses and facial expressions. It also teaches you how to draw them at different stages, as well, like Tiana as a frog and Mulan as a soldier. This is a great book for more advanced artists.
This is a great general art book on how to draw realistic pictures of your favourite animals. But this book doesn’t just stick to your boring cows and cats and dogs; it also features pre-historic creatures, such as the Indricotherium (try saying that three times fast!) and the creatures of legend, such as the Gryphon and the Hydra. Another book for the more advanced artist, but don’t let that scare you off! Practice makes perfect, after all.
13 Art Illusions Children should know
Do you know what tromp l’oeil is? Or atmospheric perspective? From the very earliest paintings, clever artists have used all sorts of tricks to fool the viewer into seeing the painting in a different way. This book will reveal all these tricks and how they were created. It takes you on a journey through time, showing you how artists got cleverer and cleverer at fooling the eye. It will teach you something new and perhaps you can introduce some of these concepts to your own art work.
This book is on the same subject but focuses more on the modern types of optical illusions. It doesn’t focus on the history or the more technical aspects of how these illusions are created, but it’s a fun book to read.
How to draw series
If you’d like to take your art skills to the next level, these are the books for you! Their motto is “An art school in a book” and that is true. We’ve featured the “how to draw” series before, but these two new books( How to draw perspective and How to draw still life) are worth featuring on their own. These books will take you through the more technical aspects of drawing without being too difficult to understand. It will explain clearly everything from vanishing points to negative space.
