10 Creative Drawing Books For Beginners

Drawing original characters of a comic have always been a dream of anime lovers. Nothing brings anime artists more satisfaction than creating original characters to use in a comic strip or graphic novel.

Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart helps them through this drawing book reach this goal by providing insight into the six most popular anime types: schoolgirls, schoolboys, preteens, vengeful bad guys, humorous personalities, and fantasy figures. He supplies templates for each; an extensive array of “menus” of head and body types, outfits, and accessories; and detailed, accessible, step-by-step demonstrations and drawing exercises. Plus, Hart showcases some of the best anime artists in the world for this title—including Inma R., Tabby Kink, Ayame Shiroi, Euro Pinku, and Tina Francisco. It's the guide every would-be anime artist has been looking for!

Fun 5-minute drawing lessons for kids—great for young artists, birthday gifts, homeschool art lessons, and elementary art classes!

Perfect for adult and kids who have never drawn before. This beginner drawing book will teach your kid how to draw cool things in no time. These mini drawing lessons will help your child practice their basic art skills and teach them how to draw with confidence. This book is perfect for kids 8-12, but kids 5-7 with an interest in art will be able to easily follow along as well. From cupcakes to unicorns, to cars, butterfly, and cats, your kid will be drawing all sorts of things that they'll want to show off to their friends. 

Simple steps and diagrams of Koch, Alli from start to finish. Will help you to learn how to draw an ice cream cone, fruit, castle, spaceship, cactus, aeroplane, animals, and so many more cute and cool things.

This book will help you improve your drawing and shading skills.

The famous pencil artist Jasmina, Susak will demonstrate for you the techniques of drawing lifelike portraits and 3-dimensional objects. No matter what your experience level is, you can draw by following these easy step-by-step demonstrations. Whether you want to create drawings of fruits, learn how to draw water droplets or how to draw a face, eyes, nose, and lips, these drawing tips will show you how to get great results with graphite pencils. Using her simple and unique techniques you will also learn how to create smooth human skin, and straight and curly hair through the highly detailed tutorials. 

In this book, you will find, more than 200 high-quality images with all the visible details and written explanations for each step. If you want to take your drawings to the next level, this is the book for you. You will be able to draw anything and will be enriched with professional tips and advice that you will be able to take with you and apply to your future drawings.

Learn how to draw fierce, breathtaking dragons from around the globe.

In easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail, Author Staple, Sandra teaches you all the tricks and techniques you’ll need to create your own amazing dragons. You’ll discover how to draw all types of dragons using nothing but a pencil. Drawing Dragons shows how to bring to life fierce warriors and bearded ancients as well as baby hatchlings and protective mothers. It also features a special section on adding claws, scales, horns, jewels and other unique details to your dragons.

Learn to draw:
• Ferocious, attacking dragons
•Graceful sea dragons
•Fire-breathing flying dragons
•Wise, thoughtful dragons

A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes:

• crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain;
• new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.;
• and new reproductions of master drawings throughout.

This is the book that can teach anyone to draw. If you're not getting the kind of true-to-life results you want in your drawings, Carrie and Rick Parks can help. As award-winning teachers, they have a proven game plan for helping artists of all levels overcome common problems and see an immediate improvement in their work. In this friendly, foolproof guide to drawing, they share it all:
   • Easy-to-master techniques for achieving a convincing sense of depth
   • How to draw challenging textures like metal and fur
   • Putting personality into your portraits
   • 40+ step-by-step demonstrations featuring a variety of people, animals and nature

Easy enough so that beginners can jump right in, and comprehensive enough to help more accomplished artists refine their skills. This book covers all the essentials, teaching you the secrets of realistic drawing one step at a time, building the skills you need to tackle any subject convincingly--even those you've always thought were beyond your reach. Before you know it, you'll be turning out picturesque landscapes, stellar portraits--any subject that inspires you to put pencil to paper!

What does an artist need to know about drawing? And what has to be mastered in order to achieve the drawings you want? In this book Barrington Barber shows you, offering advice and tips as he takes you through the various stages.

From object drawing and still-life composition, the natural world and portraiture, to looking at form and shape, and assessing styles and techniques. This drawing book is a distillation of the many skills that the aspiring artist needs to develop.

After training as a graphic designer, Barrington Barber went into advertising, working for top agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, before progressing to freelance design and producing illustrations for a range of books and magazines. He taught art for many years, and now enjoys a successful career as a fine artist. He has written and illustrated a wide range of best-selling instructive art books, which to date have sold 4 million copies around the world.

How to Draw Cool Stuff shows simple step-by-step illustrations that make it easy for anyone to draw cool stuff with precision and confidence.

This drawing book will guide you through the basic principles of illustration by concentrating on easy-to-learn shapes that build into complex drawings. With the step-by-step guidelines provided, anything can become easy to draw. This book contains a series of fun, hands-on exercises that will help you see line, shape, space and other elements in everyday objects and turn them into detailed works of art in just a few simple steps. The exercises in this book will help train your brain so you can visualize ordinary objects in a different manner, allowing you to see through the eyes of an artist. From photorealistic faces to holiday themes and tattoo drawings.

Now is the time to learn how to draw the subjects and scenes you've always dreamt of drawing. This drawing book of Holmes, Catherine V is suitable for artists of any age benefiting everyone from teachers and students to self-learners and hobbyists. How to Draw Cool Stuff will help you realize your artistic potential and expose you to the pure joy of drawing!

Learn how to draw your favourite furry friend! With Christopher Hart’s simple templates, any pet owner can do it. 
 
Whatever your pet, you can capture it in a beautiful drawing! Chris Hart, the world’s bestselling art instruction author, has created templates that work for pups and kitties of just about any shape and size—from poodles, dachshunds, and Bernese Mountain Dogs to tabbies, Persians, and Siamese cats. Every template is easy to follow so you’ll get adorable results worthy of framing . . . no matter what your skill level.

Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and storylines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing.

Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting storylines.

This helpful guide also includes practice pages with drawing tips and techniques you need to create your very own comic book, including Drawing basics, Inking techniques, Creating characters, Drawing bodies in motion, Designing characters, Creating battle scenes, Adding speech, Developing a story segment.

Veteran comic book artists teach you to with approachable exercises, interactive pages, and action-packed projects to guide you, This book will help you find inspiration, learn how to create a story, and most importantly, develop the characters that will make your story come to life.