Draw 500 Awesome Animals is a basic collection of line drawings of different animals by Julia Kuo. Released 2nd Nov 2021 by Quarto on their Chartwell imprint, it's 208 pages and is available in paperback format.
I love to draw and doodle. Despite not being super advanced and skillful
yet, I find drawing very relaxing most of the time. This is an
accessible guide full of very simple animal drawings. The animals are mostly stylized, they aren't overly realistic. There is no tutorial instruction; the pages are laid out very roughly thematically (but not labeled, there's no table of contents or index). Animals with similar shapes are often shown side by side for comparison purposes and inspiration: a pig from behind stands next to a similarly positioned skunk, pigs and sheep with similar outlines are arranged together, etc.
The book includes the line drawings alone. There is no introduction or step-by-step tutorials. There isn't any text. Most of the drawings are greyscale monochrome but there are some (roughly 10%) which are rendered in colored pencil.
Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added
sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a good classroom or
library book.I would also recommend this book to babysitters,
grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of
time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game. I will use these to decorate journals and notes
for friends.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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