Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
Drawing Animals on Location
A course by Amy Dover , Artist and Illustrator
About the video: Drawing Animals on Location
Overview
“Look, there’s an elephant! How do you draw from real life? In this lesson, I will show you some examples of my reportage drawings to inspire you to get out into nature and sketch the world that surrounds you. ”
In this video lesson Amy Dover addresses the topic: Drawing Animals on Location, which is part of the Domestika online course: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil. Learn to draw realistic creatures by exploring traditional and contemporary techniques to create detailed pencil sketches.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Drawing Animals on Location In this lesson, I'll give you some tips on drawing animals out in the world. Now, you have done some lessons in drawing animals, and you might want to take this further. What would be useful is to go out and draw from real-life animals. There's a long history of reportage illustration, which is going out and capturing what's happening there and then, but you have to work quickly. At the beginning of this course, we did some quick drawing exercises. That's when this comes in useful to capture things that are moving and are there in the real world. Drawing moving...”
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Course summary for: Naturalistic Animal Drawing with Graphite Pencil
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Areas
Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration
Amy Dover
A course by Amy Dover
Amy Dover is a UK-based artist and illustrator specializing in drawing our animal friends. She has worked as an artist for 14 years, has had her work exhibited internationally, and has collaborated with international animal charity organizations. Amy is a practice-based Ph.D. student at the School of Arts and Culture, Newcastle University, and has a master’s from Edinburgh College of Art. She also works as a senior academic at MIMA School of Art and Design at Teesside University.
Amy has recently been creating work on the human impact on endangered species and the sixth mass extinction, hoping to raise this as a critical concern. In addition to her activism and academia, she also works as a commercial illustrator in design, advertising, and publishing. Her clients include Target, Urban Outfitters, Redbull, The Royal Ballet, Barbour, Sperry Top-sider, Beels & Co, ThinkSpace, and many others.
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