Lee J. Ames - Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Tyrannosauruses, Woolly Mammoths, and Many More...

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 1977 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 hardcover in the United States by
Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 1977. The Library of Congress has cataloged the first printing of this title as follows: Ames, Lee J.
Draw 50 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lee J.

Ames: with a foreword by Georg Zappler.1st ed.Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, c1977.
[63]p.:ill.; 32 cm.
SUMMARY: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
1. Dinosauria in art. 2. Extinct animals in art. 3.

Animal paintings and illustration [1. Animal paintings and illustrations. 2. DrawingTechnique]
I. Title.
NC780.A482 743.6 MARC
Library of Congress 77[7712] AC
76007285 eISBN: 978-0-7704-3289-8 v3.1

Mr. Ames has designed a fascinating and instructive book.

Young readers and adult students will be able to gain an appreciation of many of natures now extinct life forms. But, more importantly, they will be able to re-create for themselves the kinds of animals that swam the seas, walked the land and soared through the air in ages long past. Some of these creatures were the ancestors of now living forms, others were only temporarily successful and disappeared without issue. Ponderous woolly mammoths, plated and horned dinosaurs, spiny sharks, flightless birds, membrane-winged reptiles, seagoing lizards, gigantic camels, saber-toothed cats and giant swimming scorpions all come to life again by way of step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. And, although the drawing sequences are very basic and simple, the final results yield scientifically accurate fleshed-out representations of animals known only from their fossil remains. Mr. Mr.

Ames is to be commended for making the world of prehistoric life accessible to everyone. G EORG Z APPLER Former Director, Staten Island Zoological Society

This book will show you a way to draw prehistoric animals. 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 the 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, 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 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 egg shapes, or ball shapes, or sausage shapes, or just to make the pencil go where you wish. Dont be discouraged. The more you practice, the more you will develop control. Use a compass 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, 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 dinosaur 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 (rotelike, if you wish) the making of pictures.

Pictures he has been eager 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 will then get off the ground when his friend says, David can draw a dinosaur better than anybody else! Lee J. Ames