Illustration Studio: Inking Animals: A modern, interactive drawing guide to traditional illustration techniques

Such a cute, quirky, whimsical book. Unique example how-to’s. Looking forward to trying my hand at some of the drawings. I appreciate the large page format.

I love this book! I draw all the time, but I draw using traditional techniques and have struggled with loosening up and having fun. Sova's book has really helped me to capture my ideas and play around. She gives great tips and observational "things to notice" and I enjoy her whimsical images in the book.If you are willing to take time to practice, Sova's book is great at giving you different techniques to get to the results you want.

An absolutely beautiful book!!

I wanted a book that I could easily follow, that's not what I got. I am new to the world of ink. As I tried one of the art projects i became stuck because the author skips steps that they assume the new artist will know how to do and proceed on their own. It was not easy to follow. I'm very disappointed. I felt that this book had a lot of potential, however, when you write a "how to" book, you must be thorough so that people using it can follow step by step.

Illustration Studio: Inking Animals is a new tutorial guide for visual artists by Sova Huova. Released 25th Sept 2018 by Quarto's Walter Foster imprint, it's 144 pages and available in paperback format.I think there are many would-be artists who believe that they're not capable of 'real' art because they've spent their non-childhood lives in a negative feedback cycle. Children (as regards art) are mostly fearless. As Picasso said, “All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.” Anyhow, though I often feel the desire to be visually creative, to paint and draw... my efforts generally don't live up to my expectations and I get discouraged.This book does a very good job of trying to counteract that negative feedback loop. The author is encouraging and positive, always upbeat.For a relatively short book, there is a lot of content and many techniques. I especially loved the tutorial guide for collage. There how-to sections include prepping paper for collage, lino cutting, some digital work, drawing, drybrushing, wet inking and more.The author spends about 25% of the book's content introducing and showing the materials and methods used in the book. The next chapters show different types of animals and in different media. There's even a chapter on imaginary/fantastic creatures which has a nifty mix-and-match creativity exercise included.There is a fair bit of 'note' space and doodle space included in the page count which could have been given over to more content, since most readers will not be marking up the physical book. Otherwise, it was a really encouraging, fun, and very useful book.Four stars! I had a lot of fun with this one; in fact, enough fun that I am encouraged to continue.Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Illustration Studio: Inking Animals by Sova Huova is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early September.Tres hygge with a detailed use of watercolor, pencils, digital graphic programs, ink, and markers to depict woodland, fantasy, domestic, jungle (sort of in the style of a Zootopia Banksy or trippy geometric shapes), and bird-like creatures. There's a fluid use of font, hand-doodles, and light aqua flourish for linebreaks and Huova is surprisingly reassuring and helpful. Also, there's a grand, eye-catching use of color, texture, and lightbox technique to add décor within the basic shape of an animal (placing it almost on the level of an ornate patronus) to depict it either in a realistic or slightly cartoony way. Whichever option you choose, I especially liked the author's renditions of guinea pigs, woodchat shrike, a raven done in linocut, and serow unicorns.

Looking for a great way to get into drawing/illustration? Look no farther! Sova provides a very accessible approach to getting started. First, we get an introduction to the various supplies we'll need. We get tutorials on a variety of illustration methods - drawing (pen, ink, pencil), painting and even block printing as well as combining techniques. We also get great artist tips along the way such as starting with the most detailed parts so if we mess up, it's not as big a deal to begin again. Sova makes drawing a more approachable art form.Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. All comments are my own, unbiased opinion.

What a wonderful book! It looks beautiful and Sova's whimsical animal illustrations persuade you into trying your luck at drawing and painting animals using inks. The book focuses on how to draw and paint animals with inks and a little bit on how to create compositions. It is well suited for beginners, it has step-by-step tutorials, a lot of artist’s tips and explanations on different tools and techniques you can use (india ink with brushes or dip pens, fineliners, calligraphy markers, white gel pens, etc.). It also shows how you can mix other media like goache, watercolors, colored pencils, etc. to create beautiful illustrations. The animal tutorials cover woodland, domestic, exotic and imaginary animals (Unicorns!!!) and birds have their own section as well.It’s nice that it covers a wide variety of techniques and you can pick your favorite tool and give it a try. My favorite parts of the book were “Finding inspiration”, with advice on how to keep your creative juices flowing, and the “creative exercises”. It is worth mentioning that it explains how to make a light box and that there is bonus material online. Totally recommend it! *I read it from an eARC, as you can see on the second picture, oh! and I got the idea of adding my ink squirrels in the photograph because it came on the bonus material ;)

Great Book!

Super schöne Tiere. Alle Tiere der Frontseite sind enthalten. Gezeigt werden Einhörner, Füchse, Igel, Dachs, Hase, Meerschweinchen, Reh, Esel, Kuh, Eule, Hunde und Vögel. Echt süß gemacht. Wer gern und einfach Tiere malen möchte ist hier gut bedient. Es gibt Zeichnungen mit denen ich nicht viel anfangen kann. Zum Beispiel der Bär der auf der Front abgebildet ist. Auch der Elefant ist schwierig. Sie sind etwas aufwendiger und abstrakter. Aber für einfache Stifte wie Kuli, Bleistift, Rollerball sind viele Zeichnungen enthalten. Vorallem in verschiedenen Varianten (Igel, Hunde und Meerschweinchen). Echt süß! Ganz toll ist, dass es eine zusatzliche Übungsseite gibt. Einband recht dünn, würde empfehlen es mit Buchfolie Einzubinden. Das geht recht schnell und jetzt ist es sehr geschützt für die nächsten Jahre.

This book surprised me ,it is absolutely gorgeous . So whimsical and quirky. Extremely inspiring and beautifully written . One of the loveliest books I’ve bought .

Ein schön gestaltetes Buch mit nützlichen und tatsächlich nachahmbaren Erklärungen !

Ein englischsprachiges Buch mit anschaulichen Tips und Vorgaben um Tiere zu zeichnen. Es ist in ein leichtes Englisch geschrieben und daher leicht verständlich.