Drawing Dogs

Roberto Fabbretti

Summary

As opposed to the stories often heard, learning to draw on our own it’s not a difficult task. In order to achieve this, we just need to follow a logical and rational method. This book reveals how to draw dogs taking as a reference the skeleton of the animal. After this, the drawing will be made through its association with geometrical figures. Everybody is capable of drawing a circle, a square or a triangle, but what people don’t know is that with a few additional touches your sketch can be transformed into an incredible animal!

Available since: 07/15/2016.

Print length: 32 pages.

The Arts

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