The Artist's Guide to Drawing Realistic Animals Paperback – Illustrated, August 23, 2006

I don't particularly understand the low ratings for this book; It has great drawings, not the loose chaotic scribbles you see in many other animal drawing books. It's well made with high quality paper, offering full color reference images for each one of its guides, in addition to tips, a step-by-step guide on how to draw them, and even a bit of information about the animal that will help with drawing them. Since it was made in 2006, it is presented in a more modern manner, and won't feel like the old-of-date, scratchy-papered, black-and-white-with-yellowing-pages texts that schools often provide, and therefore provides a more casual and entertaining experience. It has a nice array of animals, with large sections for the most popular animals (ex: the cat family, the dog family) and smaller sections for the more "out-there" animals, like giraffes and owls.The only downside I can see here is the lack of anatomical information; however, this is not advertised as an anatomy book. Also, this is not a book for beginners. It assumes you already have a basic grasp of drawing, but would like more practice in the drawing of animals. Most of the step-by-steps provide only 3 images: the very basic structure of the animal, followed by a loose guide on where the details should go, and a finished drawing. As I've said, for anyone who has a good drawing background, this should be sufficient, but beginners are better off looking elsewhere.

Got this book as reference for my two boys, who are into drawing. The book looks good, as I mentioned in the tittle. Wether if the kids are using it … well, that’s another story… that I’m sure are familiar with

Gift to my son. He said it is helpful for drawings that he does.

Book was nice, but it would be nice to have more illustrations and steps to achieve the end product.

This man is so thorough with what he finds out about the animals before he evens begins to watch or sketch them. I love his snippets called artist’s secrets and animal secrets. I am and have learned so much from how he teaches. My sketches have definitely improved because of the things I have learned.

Christmas gift, well received.

Excellent book for whoever wants to get into sketching animals, easy to understand and so many projects to follow and finish, highly recommend to anyone who is interested in getting better at sketching , I use it to teach my kids sketching and teaching other kids who learn sketching from me, I find it very useful

This book help me get Ideals, and brush up on my drawings. Easy to understand, and for beginners awesome way to learn to draw animals