Lee J. Ames - 11 Sept

Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft, and SpacecraftDraw 50 AliensDraw 50 Animal ToonsDraw 50 AnimalsDraw 50 AthletesDraw 50 Baby AnimalsDraw 50 BeastiesDraw 50 BirdsDraw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and TrainsDraw 50 Buildings and Other StructuresDraw 50 Cars, Trucks, and MotorcyclesDraw 50 CatsDraw 50 Creepy CrawliesDraw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric AnimalsDraw 50 DogsDraw 50 Endangered AnimalsDraw 50 Famous CartoonsDraw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other PlantsDraw 50 HorsesDraw 50 Magical CreaturesDraw 50 MonstersDraw 50 PeopleDraw 50 PrincessesDraw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea CreaturesDraw 50 VehiclesDraw the Draw 50 Way Copyright 1981 by Jocelyn S. Ames All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 2012. WATSON-GUPTILL and the WG and Horse designs are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Originally published in trade paperback in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 1981. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ames, Lee J.
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Dogs in art2. DrawingTechnique. [1. Dogs in art. 2. Title. II. II.

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Draw 50 dogs
NC780.A483 1986
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Captions courtesy of The Gaines People Guide to Americas
Dogs wall chart.
Reprinted by permission. eISBN: 978-0-7704-3290-4 v3.1 TO BUTCHIE DELL AMES, LE MAYS RED WHATTIS (TINY),
AND SAM (NE RESTLESS) and thanks again to Holly Moylan, super-helper

This book will show you a way to draw dogs. You need not start with the first illustration. Choose whichever you wish. When you have decided, follow the step-by-step method shown. Very lightly and carefully sketch out step number one.

This step, which is the easiest, should be done most carefully. Step number two is added right to step number one, also done lightly and very carefully. Step number three is sketched right on top of numbers one and two. Continue in this way to the last step. It may seem strange to ask you to be extra careful when you are drawing what seem to be the easiest first steps, but this is most important, for a careless mistake at the beginning may spoil the whole picture at the end. As you sketch out each step, watch the spaces between the lines, as well as the lines, and see that they are the same.

After each step, you may want to lighten your work by pressing it with a kneaded eraser (available at art supply stores). When you have finished, you may want to redo the final step in India ink with a fine brush or pen. When the ink is dry, use the kneaded eraser to remove the pencil lines. The eraser will not affect the India ink. Here are some suggestions: In the first few steps, even when all seems quite correct, you might do well to hold your work up to a mirror. Sometimes the mirror shows that youve twisted the drawing off to one side without being aware of it.

At first you may find it difficult to draw the egg shapes, or ball shapes, or sausage shapes, or to just make the pencil go where you wish. Dont be discouraged. The more you practice, the more you will develop control. The only equipment youll need will be a medium or soft pencil, paper, the kneaded eraser and, if you wish, a pen or brush. The first steps in this book are shown darker than necessary so that they can be clearly seen. (Keep your work very light.) Remember, there are many other ways and methods to make drawings.

This book shows just one method. Why dont you seek out other ways from teachers, from libraries and, most importantly, from inside yourself? Lee J. Ames

David can draw a collie better than anybody else! Such peer acclaim and encouragement generate incentive. Contemporary methods of art instruction (freedom of expression, experimentation, self-evaluation of competence and growth) provide a vigorous, fresh-air approach for which we must all be grateful. New ideas need not, however, totally exclude the old. One such idea is the follow-me-step-by-step approach.

In my young learning days this method was so common, and frequently so exclusive, that the student became nothing more than a pantographic extension of the teacher. In those days it was excessively overworked. This does not mean that the young hand is never to be guided. Rather, specific guiding is fundamental. Step-by-step guiding that produces satisfactory results is valuable even when the means of accomplishment are not fully understood by the student. The novice with a musical instrument is frequently taught to play simple melodies as quickly as possible, well before he learns the most elemental scratchings at the surface of music theory.

The resultant self-satisfaction, pride in accomplishment, can be a significant means of providing motivation. And all from mimicking an instructors Do-as-I-do. Mimicry is a prerequisite for developing creativity. We learn how to use our tools by means of mimicry. Then we can use those tools for creativity. To this end, I would offer the budding artist the opportunity to memorize or mimic (rotelike, if you wish) the making of pictures he has been anxious to draw.

The use of this book should in no way be compulsory. Rather, it should be available to anyone who wants to try another way of developing skills. Perhaps he will then be encouraged to produce more significant accomplishments when his friend says, David can draw a collie better than anybody else! Lee J. Ames

Pictured in rock carvings of Afghanistan dating back 4000 years, once used to pursue gazelles. Av. 60 lbs., ht. 27. 27.

Coat: long. Color: usually tan, black, fawn, cream, blue.