The Art of Animal Drawing: Construction, Action Analysis, Caricature (Dover Books on Art Instruction, Anatomy) | 
| Author: Ken Hultgren
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 8999
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 134
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0486274268
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.6
EAN: 9780486274263
ASIN: 0486274268
Publication Date: February 9, 1993
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Product Description
Former Disney animator offers expert advice on drawing animals both realistically and as caricatures. Use of line, brush technique, establishing mood, conveying action, much more. Construction drawings reveal development process in creating animal figures. Many chapters on drawing individual animal forms — dogs, cats, horses, deer, cows, foxes, kangaroos. 53 halftones, 706 line illustrations.
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Priceless May 27, 2007
Ken Hultgren's animal drawing book is by far the best I've ever seen. The drawings are not only beautiful and full of life but rich in anatomical information as well. Studying and copying these drawings, combined with a few trips to the zoo and a horse ranch, enhanced my awareness of animal anatomy and movement enormously.
I used this book as my primary resource for modeling, rigging, animating a horse in Maya. It's a great asset for animators, modelers, sculptors -- artists of any sort-- or anyone who loves animals and good drawings.
great reference for the artist. May 22, 2007
Excellent art reference for the developing artist who wants to understand animal anatomy and motion.
Awesome for Serious Artists April 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is somewhere right between a "How to Draw Animals" book and a detailed anatomy book. It gives you the basics of the muscles for each animal in beautiful, dynamic sketches that take you from drawing static (but proportional) animals to leaping, rolling, fighting animals. If you're really serious, you'll still need a more detailed anatomy book, but for movement (especially of horses and deer and their running patterns) this one is awesome. Just a warning though, the section on dogs is awesome but smaller than the horses, the section on cats is extensive but focuses mostly on big cats, and the section on wolves/foxes/wild dogs is pretty brief - much more of the book is spent on the larger herbivores and some less commonly studied animals like kangaroos, camels, rabbits, and a big section on bears.
One of the best animal drawing books March 14, 2007
The book has lots of great drawing. I wish it had more explanations. But I still love it.
best book ever March 9, 2007
if you are studying animal drawing, this is one of the best books ever. this concentrates on the motion and line of action, as well as the construction!
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