Animal Portraits. Drawing in Japanese Author's Technique

A revolutionary guide for all beginner animal artists! Many would like to create a portrait of their pet. But drawing an animal is not so simple! And there is a very good reason for this – a lack of knowledge in anatomy. In this book, Japanese artist Mari Suzuki talks about how she was once dissatisfied with her own drawings, but higher education and professional training in veterinary medicine helped Mari thoroughly study the structure of muscles, bones, and joints in various species of animals. This knowledge became the foundation for creating a true author’s drawing technique, which consists of a step-by-step process: the first stage is creating a skeleton model, the second is a muscle model, and only then transferring the sketch using tracing paper, refining the sketch so that in the final stage it turns into a beautiful realistic image of a given animal. This book will be a great aid for all beginner and “advanced” illustrators.