This beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits leap into life.

This comprehensive guide covers many species from your favourite domestic friends to wild animals and even birds.

Learn how to depict the creatures that inspire you accurately and sympathetically, capturing their character through that elusive glint in their eyes, the textures in their fur, and the contours of their musculature.

With instructions for using predominantly pastels and oils but also charcoal, inks and watercolours, this book is a must for all animal lovers.


Search Press. Paperback. Colour throughout. 144 pages.

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