Kids Draw Animals (Kids Draw Series) »

Christopher Hart has sold more than one million books worldwide, and is Watson-Guptill’s best-selling author. He lives in Connecticut.

Kids Draw Animals offers the perfect addition to the mega-selling art instruction series, written by renowned artist and instructor Christopher Hart.

Artists between the ages of 6 and 12 will delight in the wonderful animals that fill the pages of this lively how-to. Colorful, fun spreads demonstrate, step by step, how to draw African animals, bears, horses, birds, reptiles, cute critters, sea creatures, pets, and exotic animals like kangaroos, and camels. As kids progress, they go beyond simply copying to gain real drawing skills and solid artistic technique. Plus...they ll have lots of fun!

Children's Literature

This is another volume in an ongoing series of instructional art books for grade-school youngsters published by Watson-Guptill. Christopher Hart is cited as being the author of Watson-Guptill's "most popular how-to-draw books," undoubtedly referring to the ubiquitous Manga art volumes he's written. While this book adds nothing new to the array of texts available on how to draw animals, it is nonetheless worthwhile. The introductory material at the front of the book, particularly the basic anatomical diagrams and simple tips on perspective, is almost worth the price of the book. Like many instructional volumes, it is a step-by-step book, beginning with simple geometric shapes and progressing rapidly to relatively easy finished drawings of all manner of birds and beasts. The only fault, perhaps, is that the finished pieces are rendered in color (airbrushed for three-dimensionality), and there's no information in the book that goes beyond line drawing.