Show-How Guides: Drawing Magical Creatures: The 7 Essential Techniques & 15 Fantastical Creatures Everyone Should Know!

By Keith Zoo

SHOW-HOW GUIDES: DRAWING MAGICAL CREATURES is a primer for curious minds with a clear, fun graphic style that invites any kid to get started with drawing unicorns, dragons, and more.

This pocket-sized 101 includes a curated collection of essential drawing techniques and 15 mythical beasts to draw. Every step is illustrated, allowing kids to easily master the basics, regardless of how they learn.

Readers will learn to draw a gnome, fairy, mandrake, elf, jackalope, lava monster, mere creature, phoenix, golem, unicorn, minotaur, troll, yeti, kraken, and dragon.

SHOW-HOW GUIDES offers visual, step-by-step introductions to skills that every kid should know―from hair braiding and paper airplanes, to drawing animals, pumpkin carving, gingerbread houses, and more! Whether you’re a second grader learning to make friendship bracelets for the first time or an adult looking to master the art of knots, these comics will give you the skills you’ll treasure through childhood and beyond.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Aug 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250853158

Keith Zoo

Keith Zoo is an illustrator living near Boston, MA. For the past decade, he's been the Lead Artist at FableVision Studios, working on a full range of things, from character design to animation layout, interactives and design. When he's not there, he loves spending his time drawing monsters, goblins and other silly things. To check out more of Keith's work, head on over to his website.

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[montzaleew · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Show-How Guides: Drawing Magical Creatures: The 7 Essential Techniques 15 Fantastical Creatures Everyone Should Know!by Keith ZooCan you child make basic shapes? Do they like drawing? Check out this book where even kids as young as 5 or 6 can learn to draw magical creatures if they know simple basic shapes!This book is a step by step technique that uses shapes and how to place them to create funny creatures. Some erasing needed to remove overlapping lines but the book shows exactly where to do this. It's simple, easy, and fun!Kids will be so proud of their art work! It will only take a few minutes to create something they will have that will build up skill and confidence. They will have fun doing it too!Some of the magical creatures they will learn to draw include a gnome, fairy, mandrake, elf, jackalope, lava monster, mere creature, phoenix, golem, unicorn, minotaur, troll, yeti, kraken, and dragon.Great idea for gifts, art lovers, fantasy lovers, or someone who needs a boost in self confidence! Fun for one or a group!I want to thank the publisher and NetGalley for letting me read this fun and artsy book!

[huberk-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

SHOW-HOW GUIDES: DRAWING MAGICAL CREATURES by Keith Zoo This Show-How Guide teaches you how to draw magical creatures. Complete with starting with circles or triangles or whatever shapes are needed to begin your creature. The author shows you step-by-step how to complete the drawing process. Using it, the directions felt a bit technical to me, personally. I reckon I'm more of a doodle type of amateur artist. I enjoy reading all the different types of drawing technique books, to educate myself.Highly recommend it for all ages.Many thanks to #netgalley for the complimentary copy of #showhowguidesdrawingmagicalcreatures I was under no obligation to post a review.