Animal Sketching

By Alexander Calder

Book Overview

Animal Sketching by Alexander Calder is a comprehensive guide to capturing the essence of animals through drawing. The book is filled with detailed instructions and illustrations that cover a variety of animals, from domestic pets to wild beasts. Calder shares his own techniques and insights on how to observe and sketch animals in a way that captures their unique movements, shapes, and personalities. The book is suitable for artists of all levels, from beginners to experienced professionals. It also includes a brief biography of Calder's life and career as an artist. Overall, Animal Sketching is an excellent resource for anyone interested in improving their drawing skills and capturing the beauty of the animal kingdom.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1163169757
• ISBN13: 9781163169759
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Stimulant

The author says "...the object of this book, which really is to create a stimulant to the younger artist, to draw things as he sees them, has fulfilled its purpose." I am neither young nor an artist but I find this little book very stimulating. If you browse the book you will see very simple animal sketches. Many of them are so simple that I thought I could do them better, so I tried. And this is the important thing, I tried, I copied the sketches in the book. Maybe one sketch has only a few lines and maybe you get some/all of them right, but what do you think of the overall result? Could it be better? Just do it again, after all it only takes a moment, there are only a few lines to draw. I have only tried with the sketches in the book and I have yet to try with living animals (dogs, cats, cows,...) I wanted a book on animal sketching and, besides the title, this es the content of this book. I highly recommend this book.