Product Description

This latest addition to the Discover Drawing series will teach readers how to produce beautiful renderings of their favorite animals--horses. Hammond's realistic approach, clear step-by-step instruction and encouraging voice ensures that artists of any experience level will be able to succeed right from the start. Even the finished examples look achievable to the first timer--Hammond is just that good a teacher.

The appealing subject matter combined with clear, detailed directions make Draw Horses a winner and the one book that you can bet on to cross the finish line well ahead of the competition!

* Perfect for beginning artists
* Over 138,000 copies have been sold in the Discover Drawing series
* Clear step-by-step instruction from a master

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31958 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

About the Author
Lee Hammond is the author of six Discover Drawing titles, two Drawing in Color titles, How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs and How to Draw Portraits in Colored Pencil from Photographs. She lives in Overland Park, Kansas.

Customer Reviews

Draw horses by Lee Hammond
This book is great if you know some of the basics of how to draw a horse. It has everything you need to know about shadowing which is very important for your drawing to look realistic and lively. It also shows you how to draw ears, eyes, muzzle, legs, hooves, and hair(the mane and the tail). After following a step by step procedure I was able to draw a Great horsey eye which looked realistic. The book also has step by step precedures on how to draw horses from different views front,back, laying down, etc.) It also contains several drawings that have no step by step precedure but rather allow you to practice on your own. I advise you to buy this book, it's really good!

Excellent book!
I hesitated to buy this book because it had a low price, but it is excellent. Lee Hammond can really draw, and she shows you how. At the beginning of the book, she goes over the basic shapes, such as circles, spheres, and shows you what each one needs in order to look realistic. Then she shows you how she draws each feature of a horse. It's just a great book and I have read many. I bought one of her colored pencil books after I saw this one and I can't wait.

Lots missing from this book
I think this would be a great book for a child or someone who wants to draw horses but does not know much about drawing in general. There are step by step instructions for drawing standing, untacked horses in pencil. The major strength of the book is that it shows how to use soft pencil and blending tortillions to create realistic shading effects. Major deficits include no information whatsoever on gaits and other types of movement, almost no anatomical information, very little on breed differences, and nothing on tack. The dozen equine pages in Jack Hamm's How to Draw Animals does a much better job with these essential topics. The author recommends that the student draw from photos - I didn't need a book to tell me that. If your photo doesn't depict your subject in the position you want, this book won't be much help. Also, if your favorite medium is anything other than pencil, this book is not for you. Having said all this, the pictures I drew from the instructions were definitely better than anything I had drawn previously. So I don't regret buying it, but I wish it had been more comprehensive.