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 1986 by Jocelyn S. Ames and Murray D. Zak Felix the Cat 1986 Felix the Cat Productions, Inc., reprinted with special permission of King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Miss Lil copyright 1983 by Rick Detorie, used with permission. 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 hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 1986.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Ames, Lee J.
Draw 50 cats.
Summary: Step-by-step instructions on how to draw a variety of cats, including domestic breeds, wild cats, cuddly kittens, and celebrity cats.
1. Cats in artJuvenile literature. 2. DrawingTechniqueJuvenile literature.
[1. Cats in art. 2.

DrawingTechnique] I. Title. II. Title: Draw fifty cats.
NC780.A4818 1986
743.6974428
86008964 eISBN: 978-0-7704-3288-1 v3.1 This is for my lovely new grandkitten, Lauren Michelle Thanks, Warren, for all your help.

This book will show you a way to draw a wide variety of your favorite felines. 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. However, this step, which is the easiest, should be done most carefully. Step number two is added right to step number one, also lightly and also very carefully. Step number three is sketched right on top of numbers one and two.

Continue 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 because 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 clean off 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 boxes, triangles, or circles, or just to make the pencil go where you wish. Dont be discouraged. The more you practice, the more control you will develop.

Use a compass or a ruler if you wish; professional artists do! The only equipment youll need will be a medium or soft pencil, paper, the kneaded eraser and, if you wish, a compass, ruler, pen or brush. The first steps in this book are shown darker than necessary so that they can be clearly seen. (Keep your own 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 and methods to make drawingsfrom teachers, from libraries and, most important from inside yourself? L EE J. A MES

Leslie can draw a Siamese cat 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 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 prerequisite for developing creativity. We learn the use of our tools by mimicry.

Then we can use those tools for creativity. To this end I would offer the budding artist the opportunity to memorize or mimic (rote-like, if you wish) the making of pictures. Pictures he has been anxious to be able to draw. The use of this book should be available to anyone who wants to try another way of flapping his wings. Perhaps he or she will then get off the ground when a friend says, Leslie can draw a Siamese cat better than anybody else! LEE J. AMES