Drawing Pet Portraits: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Your Animals

Learn to draw your favourite pets with this step-by-step guide, written by award-winning artist Aimee Willsher.

Pets are the most endearing of subjects. This beautifully illustrated, user-friendly manual shows readers how to capture the essence of the animals you love using a range of drawing media. Whether you are a complete novice or whether you want to take your skills to the next level, Drawing Pet Portraits will provide a firm grounding from which you can gain the confidence to develop your own style.

Including:
- More than 20 step-by-step projects
- Exercises showing how to master the primary shapes of popular pets
- Tutorials on drawing your pet from life and from photographs
- Demonstrations of a range of compositions

Including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, reptiles, birds and more, this is an essential guide to capturing your pets in art.

Aimee Willsher is a professional artist who specializes in figurative portraiture using traditional oils as well as detailed pencil line drawing. She graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in History of Art and has since worked on private commissions, winning the Premium Art Brands Award for a Young Artist in 2012. She lives in London with her husband, Damien, and white whippet, Yvie.