What do children hope to create when they put pencil to paper? An accurate likeness of the things they see, of course. With this imaginative, informative, and amply-illustrated guide to drawing, it’s amazingly easy for kids to make those art dreams come true. After a brief overview of tools and materials, the entertaining hands-on activities begin with contour drawing techniques. With the help of lots of exercises, budding artists will learn the basic elements of shapes (lines, dots, circles) and see how to combine them to make familiar forms. They’ll find out how to produce the illusion of volume with[Read More]

Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of fun and wacky faces. This classic book is packed with fun things that kids – and adults too – really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment

Aspiring cartoon artists, comic book collectors, and nostalgia buffs will discover a happy combination of cartoon history and practical instruction in this color-illustrated book. It teaches art students dozens of ways to simplify, exaggerate, and distort the people, animals, and objects in their illustrations to achieve hilarious effects. An overview of cartoon history showcases humorous characters as they appeared in nineteenth-century satire, in children’s books, in cartoons of the 1920s, in Hollywood animation of the 1940s, and in today’s manga and anime cartoons. The author shows how to create cartoons using a wide range of media, from pen and ink[Read More]

Caldecott medalist Ed Emberley shows readers how to draw a menagerie of different animals–from polliwogs to gorillas–by using the simplest of shapes. The book will provide budding young artists with hours of art-full entertainment. Full color.

Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw over 400 things, such as an airplane, anteater, submarine, train, kangaroo, gondola, and much much more! This classic book is packed with cool things that kids – and adults too – really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.