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Drawing Animals Using Grids Giovanni Civardi

Drawing Animals Using Grids By Giovanni Civardi

Drawing Animals Using Grids by Giovanni Civardi


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Learn how to use the grid technique to draw accurate sketches of your cats, dogs and horse from photographs and more, with the help of master artist Giovanni Civardi.

Drawing Animals Using Grids Summary

Drawing Animals Using Grids by Giovanni Civardi

If you have often struggled to draw animals, from master artist Giovanni Civardi comes this highly visual beginners guide to drawing dogs, cats and horses using the traditional grid technique - a method that makes the first stages of drawing simple and achievable.

Giovanni Civardi shows you how to create an accurate pencil sketch of the subject by laying a grid over a photo or drawing and transferring the image to the drawing surface one square at a time.

Beginning with a summary of animal anatomy and basic drawing techniques, this book contains over 90 outlines of dogs, cat and horses in a range of static and moving poses, with guidance on how to add shading and tonal effects to create more detailed finished drawings.

Drawing Animals Using Grids Reviews

The idea behind this series is simple and easy to comprehend - it does what it says on the tin. Each subject is overlaid by a co-ordinated grid, so that all the main points of shape and composition can easily be transferred the finished image. It's a long-established and well-tested technique that simply works.

What makes these volumes particularly useful, as well as the quality of the illustrations, is the amount of background material - structure, anatomy and features - that prefaces each set of drawings. In the animals volume, these are not just general but applied to each type - so, dogs, horses, cats. When it comes to people, these are structure, movement and posture. The main sections here divide into character, babies and children, and figures in action.

-- Henry Malt * Artbookreview.net *

About Giovanni Civardi

Giovanni Civardi is a best-selling Italian artist and author, with over 600,000 copies of his books sold worldwide in English alone. Civardi was born in Milan, Italy in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus. For more work and information visit his website: www.giovannicivardi.it.

Table of Contents

What is the grid method? 4

Drawing dogs 6
- Introduction 7
- Anatomy 8
- External morphology 10
- Proportions and perspective 16
- Approaches to drawing 18
- Dog gallery 20

Drawing Horses 86
- Introduction 87
- Anatomy 88
- External morphology 90
- Proportions and perspective 93
- Approaches to drawing 94
- Horse gallery 96
- Horse and man 162

Drawing cats 164
- Introduction 165
- Anatomy 166
- External morphology 168
- Proportions and perspective 171
- Approaches to drawing 172
- Cat gallery 174

Additional information

NGR9781782217992
9781782217992
1782217991
Drawing Animals Using Grids by Giovanni Civardi
New
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
20210326
240
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