The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature

Great book for for all the art enthusiasts.

This book is a real tutorial animals drawing and anatomy book . The artist showed very easy and effectively way to draw animals. This book covers all kind of animals. Must buy for learn animals drawing in a very effective way.

It's very good book as a guide..Most of the body gesture of animals has given . thanks to artist and publisher.

Superlative book. Provides wonderful sketches of animals in motion adding character and spirit to every drawing. A must have for everyone who likes to draw animals.

Very good illustration drawings and very good contents.

This book is so awesome that someone stole it from my house. I am ordering another one. It has almost everything that you need to learn animal drawing.

The book has detailed line drawings of various types of animals using fluid lines and different styles such as natural and caricature (cartoon). By practicing these sketches one will definitely understand animal movement and how to represent that movement better. Worth the buy, definitely.

just brilliant techniques on drawing animals ,,although a looooot of pages have been taken by horse,but still all in all it covers a lot of animals,,cant believe this was published so many years ago,,i mean the techniques are jst great..and there are a lot of caricatures too,,very funny...

A wonderful resource for any artist interested in drawing some well-known animals; such as, horses or dogs. The sketching by Hultgren is phenomenal. This is NOT a book for beginning artist. If you are looking for a drawing book that gives you the step-by-step instructions using circles, triangles, and lines, you will not find that in this book. Other books are available that will give you this type of instruction. Hultgren comes more from the viewpoint that you already have a fundamental understanding on how to draw. He does offer tips on drawing animals, but it is more advanced than draw three circles, then connect this circle to this circle. He speaks more of the specific elements of different animals; such as, verbally instructing you to divide the animal into three parts - forequarters, belly, and rear - and drawing a dorsal line between these parts. He also provides a section on mood and feeling that I found interesting and personally helpful. Furthermore, sections on the use of line, action analysis, and brush technique are included. Now to get down to the specific animals Hultgren covers. For me the selection worked well, but it is not all encompassing. It couldn't possibly be, or else you wouldn't even be able to pick up the darn book. He offers detailed instruction on the Horse Family, Deer Family, the Cat Family, and the Bear Family. These are the most detailed sections of the book offering instruction drawing the skeletal and muscular structure of the animal. These sections also provide instruction on action, motion, specific body parts, and types of the animal. For instance, the lioness or the draft horse. The other chapters of the book feature cows and bulls, giraffes, camels, gorillas, pigs, dogs, foxes, kangaroos, rabbits, squirrels, and elephants are not as detailed and do not offer instruction on muscular drawing. Additionally, each animal section offers a short introduction to caricature from 1/2 page to a maximum of 2 pages. I personally enjoyed looking at the caricatures. Not all of them were "typical" cartoon drawing. The final chapter in the book covers composition in animal grouping. It gives the artist the fundamental principals behind animal grouping composition. This book is one of my favorites because it has really challenged my drawing abilities. I highly recommend this as a resource to those who have a fundamental understanding of drawing. For those of you starting out in drawing, I would recommend you find another resource first before pursuing this book.

Me gustó mucho el contenido de este libro, este es un libro de dibujo, abarca linea de acción, construcción y movimiento.Es para mejorar tu manera de dibujar, no es un libro de anatomia, más bien te da tips en como dibujar animales cuadrúpedos, y simios, lamentable no abarca pájaros, pero el contenido que tiene es excelente, y Ken Hultgren explica muy bien, con un lenguaje práctico.

Auch wenn es 20 Jahre alt ist, dieses Buch ist ein wahrer Schatz. Es schärft den Blick und hilft, wo man nicht weiter weiß. Die Illustrationen sind so schön anzusehen, fast jedes behandelte Tier wird zusätzlich als "Karikatur" (ich würde eher sagen Cartoon) gezeigt. Was mir in dem Buch sehr fehlt sind Vögel, insbesondere Papageien. Ich würde es aber nicht wagen, deswegen einen Punkt abzuziehen. Dafür ist das Gesamtwerk einfach zu gut.

Excelente livro, excelente ilustrações, desde a caricatura ao realismo. A entrega foi realizada com um dia do atraso do previsto. Também demora um pouco a chegar, pois pedi dia 05 de maio, e recebi hoje, dia 30 de maio.

They give you pretty good tips and show you how to analyze figures in order to get decent proportions and movement fluency. It doesn't have many examples of different kinds of animals though.