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Fun and Easy Drawing at Sea
Seals. Whales. Sharks. With easy step-by-step instructions, readers can create their own ocean scene. This book teaches readers how to draw sea animals, sailors, submarines, and more. They'll also learn how to use different kinds of lines and colors to make the water look as real as can be.
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Curto offers basic techniques to create a variety of characters. Beginning with simple geometric shapes, she encourages readers to round them off, adding details and finishing touches before coloring them. The author often incorporates slight changes to these cartoon drawings, resulting in a number of variations for the given subjects. Each finished creation is accompanied by general facts about the object or character. While the techniques seem simplistic in nature, they can be deceivingly complex as Curto incorporates some fairly complicated skills at the end of each booktopics such as perspective, drawing three dimensionally, shadows, and capturing movement. The format and focus of each title is essentially the same; it is the presentation of these new skills that makes these titles more than meets the eye. The purchase of the entire set is recommended; since each title works well in tandem to present drawing in an achievable and fulfilling manner; the books are certain to increase confidence and skill-building in young artists., School Library Journal February 2014
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