Kawaii Drawing by Becky Castaneda
I received a copy from Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster Publishing through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
If you like to draw and love kawaii art, then this may be the book for you! Inside, you will find 100+ drawing tutorials covering a range of super cute types of drawings. Whether you’re looking to up your game on drawing cats and mermaids or some new tips on making your drawings a little more complex, this is the right book to go with.
One of the things I like about this book is that there are some excellent tips on figuring out what materials you want to buy if you’re new to drawing. I’m a big fan of checking out video reviews on different types of markers I want to check out, and the author has some great tips on saving yourself some money. Between checking out reviews and making sure you’re looking at the right types of materials for the medium you plan on starting with or expanding on, there are some excellent tips here!
As for the drawing tutorials, they are really cute and fun. I really like their tips on simple ways of adding movement to your drawings. Plus, their tips on creating the illusion of depth are wonderful! I took a few drawing classes in college and I really like how they present depth in a simple and non-overwhelming way. They weren’t joking about how depth can be a struggle for artists at any experience level, so I like how they simplified it and encouraged readers to experiment with it. It can be a little stressful when figuring it out, but when you look at it as an experiment to see how you want to make it happen and how you like to create depth, it takes a lot of the stress off one’s shoulders!
All in all, this is an excellent and fun drawing book that I think will be great for people of all ages, but maybe not kids younger than third grade level because of some of the more complex tutorials.
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