Most Popular Books by Barbara Soloff Levy

By joining circles, ovals, rectangles, cylinders, and other common shapes, even the budding artist can easily create 30 different characters — a fireman, a drummer, a mailman, a cowboy, an astronaut, a roller-skating girl, a boy on a swing, and more. Simple directions, step-by-step illustrations, and blank practice pages make it even easier. You can color the pictures when you are done — it's a fun-filled way to teach art to young children or a beginner that enjoys drawing.

How to Draw Insects (Dover How to Draw)

Simple drawing guide for kids show how to create 30 accurate images, including a grasshopper, monarch butterfly, tarantula, caterpillar, cicada, praying mantis, walking stick, scorpion, carpenter ant, Japanese beetle, inchworm, centipede, termite, and other insects. Step-by-step lessons are accompanied by blank practice pages.

How to Draw Sports (Dover How to Draw)

Anyone can learn to draw sports pictures with this easy-to-follow manual. Thirty simple step-by-step lessons cover all of the most popular sports, from team-based pursuits such as baseball, football, lacrosse, and soccer to individual activities such as diving, skateboarding, fishing, dirt biking, and skiing. Each 4-part drawing demonstration page faces a helpful blank practice page.

How to Draw Forest Animals (Dover How to Draw)

Ever come face to face with a forest wolf spider or star-nosed mole? Using the most basic of shapes, this book shows how easy it can be to draw 30 forest animals, including common creatures such as a skunk, raccoon, fox, and moose. Blank practice pages are included.

How to Draw Cats (Dover How to Draw)

Simple step-by-step diagrams for rendering delightful likenesses of cats and kittens in assorted poses: seated, stretching, preening, ready to pounce, and more. Instructions also included for creating portraits of a lion, bobcat, cheetah, and other cat-like denizens of the wild. Great for mastering the basics of developing shapes and proportions.

How to Draw Pets (Dover How to Draw)

Would you like to draw a picture of your pet gerbil? How about portraits of your tropical fish? This book and its easy-to-follow directions make it a snap. Simple step-by-step diagrams show how to join circles, ovals, and other shapes to create likenesses of 30 adorable creatures, among them a dog, cat, mouse, parakeet, pony, potbelly pig, lamb, hermit crab, and even a sugar glider (that's a cute little mammal similar to a flying squirrel). After you've finished the drawings, you'll find the pictures are lots of fun to color!

How to Draw Animals (How to Draw (Dover))

Easy-to-follow guide, with step-by-step diagrams, shows youngsters how simple it is to create delightful likenesses of a bushy-tailed squirrel, a smiling chimpanzee, a prickly porcupine, and 27 other familiar creatures. Fun-filled book also teaches basics of developing shapes and proportions.

How to Draw Wild Animals (Learn to Draw)

With this step-by-step guide you'll learn to use basic shapes to draw a lion, alligator, gorilla, coyote, ostrich, and 25 other animals. It's a fun, easy way to learn the fundamentals of line, shape, and dimension while producing a gallery of drawings you'll be proud to show friends and family. 120 black-and-white illustrations.

How to Draw (Dover How to Draw)

Beginners can learn the basics of sketching by combining circles, ovals, rectangles, crescents, and other shapes to produce remarkable likenesses of a number of subjects. Simple, step-by-step diagrams — plus blank practice pages — make it easy for youngsters and would-be artists of all ages to draw fruit, fish, kittens, and other subjects. 30 projects.

How to Draw Faces (Dover How to Draw)

By combining circles, ovals, squiggly lines, and other shapes, aspiring artists can create realistic portraits of young girls modeling a variety of hairstyles and hats, boys and young men in cowboy hats and baseball caps, curly-haired babies, a man with a beard, a bald man with a moustache, and older men and women as well as profiles and three-quarter views of faces.
Not only are the faces fun to draw, they'll also help beginners master the basics of shape development and understand the fundamentals of form and dimension. For ages 8 and up.

How to Draw Flowers (Dover How to Draw)

This easy-to-follow book shows youngsters and other would-be artists how to use simple shapes to draw realistic likenesses of nature's loveliest blossoms. Simple step-by-step diagrams make it easy to draw 30 different types of flowers, including daisies, bluebells, buttercups, roses, tulips, violets, morning glories, daffodils, pansies, zinnias, and many others.
Once the drawings are completed, students can color them to create lovely effects. They can also combine drawings of several flowers on one sheet of paper to produce a beautiful bouquet they'll be proud to show family and friends.

How to Draw Cars and Trucks and Other Vehicles (Dover How to Draw)

Children fascinated by cars and trucks will love learning to draw the variety of vehicles outlined in this simple, easy-to-follow guide. Step-by-step diagrams incorporating circles, semicircles, squares, rectangles and other common geometrical shapes help young artists design 28 different vehicles: fire engine, dump truck, bicycle, camper, submarine, helicopter, armored car, hot-air balloon and other contemporary conveyances. These designs are not only fun to draw, they will help youngsters grasp the fundamentals of line, shape, form and dimension.

How to Draw Princesses and Other Fairy Tale Pictures (Dover How to Draw)