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Step-by-step instructions for drawing fun characters.
About the author
Erin Hunting is a Melbourne-based illustrator and character designer who loves to create drawings for picture books and comics. She also creates designs for vinyl toys. Erin has illustrated picture-book series with Penguin Random House (USA) and others, and drawn comic covers for Adventure Time, Jughead, Little Archie and Rick and Morty. In 2018 she also wrote and illustrated a 10-page Garfield comic for BOOM! Studios. Erin has created character designs and worked in visual development for Nickelodeon, Will Smith, and Sesame Studios, where her designs were aired in Abby's Amazing Adventures on HBO.
Summary
Unleash your child’s creative side with this super-cool drawing activity book.
Inside you’ll find over 100 pages of step-by-step drawing lessons, perfect for ages 4 years and up, each one featuring a fun character. New lines are added at each step, so a child can gradually build up an impressive sketch, and all the drawing is done on separate paper, meaning the book can be kept for years to come. Featuring awesome illustrations and invaluable tips from professional artist Erin Hunting, this book is the perfect starting point for a child’s journey into art.
The child will learn to add up simple shapes and lines to create something recognizable and most importantly, super cool. Children's love for art will be sparked and their confidence boosted as they realise they can make marks on a page that mean something, and start to imagine their own cool creations. The only tools they will need are pens or pencils, paper, and this book.
Foreword
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