Lee J. Ames - Draw 50 Beasties The Step-by-Step Way to Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Draw 50 Airplanes, Aircraft, and Spacecraft

Draw 50 Aliens

Draw 50 Animal Toons

Draw 50 Animals

Draw 50 Athletes

Draw 50 Baby Animals

Draw 50 Beasties

Draw 50 Birds

Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and Trains

Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures

Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles

Draw 50 Cats

Draw 50 Creepy Crawlies

Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals

Draw 50 Dogs

Draw 50 Endangered Animals

Draw 50 Famous Cartoons

Draw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants

Draw 50 Horses

Draw 50 Magical Creatures

Draw 50 Monsters

Draw 50 People

Draw 50 Princesses

Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures

Draw 50 Vehicles

Draw the Draw 50 Way

Copyright 1988 by Jocelyn S. Ames and Murray D. Zak

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 2013.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 1988.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ames, Lee J.
Draw 50 beasties and yugglies and turnover uglies and things that go bump in the night/Lee J. Ames.1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Provide step-by-step instructions for drawing monsters, goons, and gruesome beasts.
1. DrawingTechniqueJuvenile literature. 2. Monsters in artJuvenile literature. [1. DrawingTechnique. 2. Monsters in art.] I. Title. II. Title: Draw fifty beasties and yugglies and turnover uglies and things that go bump in the night.
NC825.M6A46 1988
743.6dc19 88.16143
CIP
AC

eISBN: 978-0-7704-3286-7

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For my grandkids, Lauren, Hilary, and Mark.
For Murray and Moos grandkids, Melanie and Gregory.
For Warren and Chriss kids, Bryan and Drew.

Beasties

Yugglies

Turnover Uglies

Elves

Trolls

Demons

Imps

Pitts Pets

Dina Sours

Disgust Things

Myth Fits

Aliens

Perhaps by now you have come across one of my Draw 50 books, or perhaps this is the first one youve ever picked up. Either way, I hope to show you in this book how to draw a wide variety of creaturessome creepy, some slimy, and others just plain funny (I hope). Where did I come up with this idea, you may ask? Well, mostly from your suggestions. When Im not working in my studio, I often travel around the country visiting schools and book fairs, talking to people like you to find out what subjects they like to draw best. I have learned that monsters and strange-looking characters are definitely a favorite.

At first glance, the drawings in this book may appear difficult. But if you take your time and carefully follow the step-by-step instructions for each illustration, you will be able to produce a satisfying finished drawing.

To begin, you will need only clean paper, a pencil with moderately soft lead (HB or No. 2), and a kneaded eraser (available at art supply stores). Select the illustration you want to draw, and then very lightly and carefully, sketch out step number one. Then, also very lightly and carefully, add step number two to step number one. These steps, which may look the easiest, are the most important. A mistake here can ruin your entire drawing at the end. And remember to watch not only the lines themselves, but the spaces between the lines to make sure that they are the same as for the drawing in the book. As you sketch out these first steps, it might be a good idea 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.

In each drawing, the new step is shown darker than the previous one so that it can be clearly seen. But you should keep your own work very light. Heres where the kneaded eraser will come in handy; use it to lighten your work after each step.

When you have finished your picture, you may want to go over it with some India ink. Apply this with a fine brush or pen. When the ink has thoroughly dried, erase the entire drawing with the kneaded eraser. The erasing will not affect the India ink.

The most important thing to remember is that even if your first attempts are not as good as you would like them to be, you should not get discouraged. Like any other talent, whether it be performing gymnastic feats or playing the piano, drawing takes practice to do your best.

Though there are many ways to learn how to draw, the step-by-step method used in this book should start you off in the right direction.

Leslie can draw the best beastie I ever saw! 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 or she learns the most elemental scratchings at the surface of music theory. The resultant self-satisfaction, pride in accomplishment, can provide significant 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 picturespictures 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 the best beastie I ever saw!

LEE J. AMES

BEAST LEE O