Learn how to draw cool creatures, awesome wildlife, and all your favorite animals with step-by-step instructions and helpful tips on the best drawing tools to try out. Follow along with your sketchbook, pens, and pencils as this easy-to-follow instructional book teaches you how to illustrate your favorite animals. With more than 150 step-by-step illustrations, Drawing Animals is the perfect guide for aspiring artists. Each chapter starts off simple, with how to draw basic animal body shapes. You will then learn how to adapt these bodies to create various species as you go along, including: Dolphins Horses Insects Birds Cats And even Dinosaurs! In addition to creating life-like animal illustrations, you'll also develop your technical drawing skills by learning which drawing tools will produce thin and thick lines, different levels of shading, and softer edges. Then you'll be able to use this knowledge to create the perfect finishing details for your animals, from scales to feathers to shaggy fur.