From swooping owls to floating swans, birds are elegant creatures. This gorgeous guide teaches readers how to create Zentangle® birds of all shapes and sizes. Readers will love doodling in the beautiful outlines for penguins, hummingbirds, and other beloved birds. Step-by-step instructions help readers divide outlines into smaller shapes. They’ll learn basic Zentangle® patterns they can mix and match to fill their birds with unique designs. Up-close visuals break down complex patterns into easy parts. This relaxing art form will leave readers feeling peaceful, and they’ll love the intricate results.

From swooping owls to floating swans, birds are elegant creatures. This gorgeous guide teaches readers how to create Zentangle® birds of all shapes and sizes. Readers will love doodling in the beautiful outlines for penguins, hummingbirds, and other beloved birds. Step-by-step instructions help readers divide outlines into smaller shapes. They’ll learn basic Zentangle® patterns they can mix and match to fill their birds with unique designs. Up-close visuals break down complex patterns into easy parts. This relaxing art form will leave readers feeling peaceful, and they’ll love the intricate results.

Use these 32 bird design templates for simple coloring enjoyment, or fill them with tangles to make your own new Zentangle-inspired masterpiece.

Some would say that the most beautiful things are those found in the wild. This stimulating volume teaches young artists to capture that kind of beauty through one-of-a-kind art. Readers learn to use simple lines, dots, and shapes to create intricate Zentangle designs. Through concise step-by-step instructions, it becomes clear that these stunning and detailed designs aren't difficult to draw. Readers who lack confidence in their artistic abilities will be thrilled with the incredible masterpieces they make with the help of this guide.

With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil. Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive book opens with an introduction to essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Discover helpful tips for creating a good composition, understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking artistic liberties. After learning the drawing basics, jump into the easy step-by-step projects to draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees. In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng offers simple, comprehensive instruction for drawing a range of lovely birds, as well as information for achieving accurate proportions, capturing motion, and building up form. Aaseng also shows you how to create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. With his easy step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic. Easy-to-follow instruction and art tips throughout make Drawing: Birds a complete guide for creating realistic and detailed drawings of these feathered friends. For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a must-have art-instruction reference. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Drawing: Birds allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

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