Maury Aaseng 
Drawing: Birds [EPUB ebook] 
Learn to draw step by step

With Drawing: Birds, learn to render a variety of beautiful, realistic birds in graphite pencil.



Artists of all skill levels and bird enthusiasts alike will find
creative inspiration and valuable drawing instruction in 
Drawing: Birds. This comprehensive, 10.25 × 13.75–inch book book opens with an introduction to
essential drawing tools, including graphite pencils, erasers, paper, and other materials. Then learn a variety of basic
drawing techniques, such as shading, stippling, hatching, crosshatching, and others. Discover helpful tips for creating a
good composition, understanding and seeing value, transferring photo references, and taking
artistic liberties. After learning the drawing basics, jump into the easy step-by-step projects to
draw specific birds, including a barred owl, a great blue heron, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a gray parrot, a pileated woodpecker, and black-capped chickadees.



In this book, professional artist and nature enthusiast Maury Aaseng offers simple,
comprehensive instruction for drawing a range of lovely birds, as well as information for achieving accurate proportions, capturing motion, and building up form. Aaseng also shows you how to
create realistic textures, such as feathers, nests, tree bark, and water. With his easy
step-by-step projects that start with basic shapes and progress to detailed final drawings, you can draw many birds, from the common to the exotic. Easy-to-follow instruction and
art tips throughout make
Drawing: Birds a complete guide for creating
realistic and detailed drawings of these feathered friends. For the aspiring avian artist, this book is a
must-have art-instruction reference.



Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers
easy-to-follow guides that introduce artists to basic tools and materials and include simple step-by-step lessons for a
variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist.
Drawing: Birds allows artists to develop drawing skills by demonstrating how to start with
basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

About the author

Maury Aaseng has always been excited about drawing and art. After graduating with a BFA in graphic design from the University of Minnesota—Duluth, Maury began an illustration career, and his freelance work has spanned a variety of subject matter and illustration styles, including cartooning, medical illustration, natural sciences, patient education, and watercolor. An avid nature enthusiast, Maury lives in northern Minnesota with his wife and two children. Visit www.mauryillustrates.com and maurymedicalart.com.