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• Title:Donovan Bixley's draw some awesome : drawing tips & ideas for budding artists / Donovan Bixley.
  
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• Variant Title:Draw some awesome
  
• Author/Creator:Bixley, Donovan, author.
  
• Published/Created:Auckland, New Zealand: Upstart Press, [2021]
  © 2021
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NC730 .B59 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bixley, Donovan.
  Drawing--Technique--Juvenile literature.
  Drawing--Juvenile literature.
  Illustration of books.
  
• Description:64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 x 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Donovan Bixley shares his journey as an artist, taking you from simple line drawings and inspiring ideas, to character design, drawing exercises, composition and more...full of tips and tricks for budding artists of all levels to come back to again and again."--Back cover.
  Donovan brings his unique style to teaching kids (and grown-ups!) to draw. In a book that spans levels of skill, Donovan takes his readers through warm-up exercises, mark making, sketchbooks, imagination exercises, inspirational shapes, drawing animals, faces, character creation, detail, copying, perspective, thumbnails, shading, shadows, composition, making an illustration, and even drawing a unicorn. Of course he does it with humour as well as skill.
  
• ISBN:9781990003226 paperback
  1990003222 paperback
  
• Contents:Introduction
  Warm-up exercises
  How to draw simple animals
  Mark making
  Sketchbooks
  Faces
  Drawing expressions
  How I draw a Mαuisaurus
  Creating characters
  Fruity characters
  Character details
  Exercises for your imagination
  Everyday inspiration
  How I draw a Flying Furballs biplane
  Inspiration from artists
  Perspective
  Roughs
  Shading
  Shadows
  How I draw a unicorn ... and more
  Composition
  Composition exercise
  Making an illustration.