Drawing Cute Animals Shape by Shape Review

Does your little one want to practice drawing but find it hard to get started? Get her a copy of Drawing Cute Animals Shape by Shape and she'll be good to go in no time. This book is the latest addition to the Drawing Shape by Shape series by best-selling author Christopher Hart.

About the Book:

It’s so easy to learn to draw adorable animals when you start with super simple shapes!

With Christopher Hart’s Shape by Shape method, your child can be drawing adorable animals in minutes! Starting with a circle, square, triangle, or other simple shape, it’s almost like magic to see it transform into a bear or a sloth or an orca by following the super simple step-by-step illustrations, more than 700 in all! The book’s special layflat binding makes it easy for your child to open up to any page and follow along on their own sheet of paper.

My Review:

With over 700 step-by-step illustrations for 110+ adorable animals, Drawing Cute Animals Shape by Shape is a highly accessible and enjoyable art instruction book that makes drawing super simple and fun for young learners. No prior training or reading is needed to understand and follow the straightforward steps from start to finish.

The book starts with a short introduction explaining how simple shapes like circles, half circles, triangles, squares and rectangles can be used either separately or jointly to represent different body parts and add fun details to a cartoon character. The following chapters are organized by animal varieties and their habitats, including babies, birds, sea creatures and more. The book not only teaches how to draw playful pictures, but also introduces various animal species, some of which may be new or unfamiliar to many early readers, such as axolotl, capybara and quoll.

Sturdy and easy to use, the book allows young readers to pick and choose which animals they want to draw and to proceed at their own pace. There's no specific order to follow and no perfect drawing skills are required to recreate any of the pictures. A convenient index is included in the back to provide easy access to an animal portrait based on its name.

Being amusingly cute and expressive, the drawings in the book inspire children to be imaginative, empathetic, and attentive to details. The final step of each drawing, in particular, leaves ample room for creativity. Budding artists are given the freedom to customize their critter characters with their favorite colors and backgrounds.

Fun-filled and carefully crafted, Drawing Cute Animals Shape by Shape helps spark young children's interest in art while boosting their confidence, creativity, and ability to study independently.

Purchase link: Amazon

About the Author:

Christopher Hart is the world’s leading author of art instruction books. He has written over 100 books, including his Drawing Shape by Shape series, which has sold over 290,000 copies, and his Master Guide to Drawing Anime series, with more than 870,000 copies sold. His books have been translated into 20 languages, selling more than 8 million copies worldwide. His highly illustrated books offer clearly written step-by-step instruction on a wide variety of learn-how-to-draw subjects, including animals, cartoons, and manga and anime, perfect for beginners and younger readers. He lives in Westport, CT.

For more information, visit christopherhartbooks.com. Follow the author on YouTube and Instagram.

Disclosure: I received a copy of this book to facilitate my honest review. All views and opinions expressed are my own.