Illustration School: Let's Draw Cute Animals offers easy instructions for artists, crafters, and complete beginners who want to sketch and draw in the popular Japanese character style.

Sachiko Umoto's engaging, relaxing techniques include a primer on drawing basics, plus detailed steps for creating animals from start to finish, including deer, sheep, horses, giraffes, dolphins, and more. Learn about essential materials, then discover the best methods for starting and adding onto a drawing, and incorporating shading and color.

Sachiko's instructions are so easy to follow, you'll be creating a whole menagerie in your sketchbook in no time. Create a marching dog, a sleepy bear, and a bouncy bunny.

Trace or copy the designs, then enhance them with unique doodles and details to make them your own. Add color for even more punch. Sachiko's illustrations will inspire you to incorporate drawings into art journal pages, book art, planners, scrapbooks, and cards. Connect with the world and share your creations with friends and family.

Using these techniques, you'll discover how to:

• Draw cute character faces that come alive
• Easily incorporate details such as fur, patterns, wings, and horns
• Get ideas for taking your illustrations further with cute poses and facial expressions
• Be inspired by ideas for drawing animals in their surroundings
• Add fun scene-setting extras, such as footprints, food, plants, and more

Take this book with you wherever you, and have fun practicing drawing the cutest animals around. Grab a pencil and get started!

Discover how the Illustration School series of books makes drawing enjoyable and stress-free. Using Sachiko Umoto's fun, easy techniques for sketching quirky animals, plants, landscapes, and people in the Japanese character style, you'll fill pages with charming illustrations that are uniquely you.

Illustrate your own storybooks with cute and playful characters, animals, and more, using the enjoyable techniques in Illustration School: Let's Draw a Story.

Sachiko Umoto, one of Japan's most popular artists, teaches you how to create a fantasy world filled with animals, characters, castles, rainbows, and much more, all in the popular Japanese character style. No drawing experience is necessary to sketch playful elements and designs that make up these whimsical stories. Start with basic tools and supplies, then get tips for how to start and build a drawing.

Learn how to create your own heartfelt stories featuring children and adults, animals, buildings, objects, and landscapes, all infused with your style. Be inspired by Sachiko's stories of a journey into the desert, a king and queen in a castle, and a monster island filled with cute creates. Trace or copy the drawings to invent your own tales and infuse them with color and details to make them unique. What better way to creatively express yourself? Make connections with friends and family by showing them your creations. As Sachiko says, It's bound to make everyone happy.

With this book you'll discover fun ways to:

• Add weather elements such as rain, wind, and dramatic skies
• Draw villages and towns with detailed doors, windows, balconies, and roofs
• Sketch facial expressions that give characters depth
• Become an imaginative storyteller
• Use your imagination to create vibrant fantasy worlds with no limits

Illustration School: Let's Draw a Story will help you bring to life the stories you want to tell!

Discover how the Illustration School series of books makes drawing enjoyable and stress-free. Using Sachiko Umoto's fun, easy techniques for sketching quirky animals, plants, landscapes, and people in the Japanese character style, you'll fill pages with charming illustrations that are uniquely you.

Created by one of Japan's most popular artists, this book provides detailed and complete instruction for illustrating fun and appealing characters and elements that celebrate life.

The author's special and distinct style is simple, appealing, happy, and cute and offers artists, crafters, and art enthusiasts--with and without experience--the instruction and inspiration to draw in the Japanese character style.

Illustration School: Let's Draw Happy People is for artists and crafters of all skill levels that want to bring their own illustration to their work. It offers both entertaining and fun drawing instruction and techniques along with inspiring and sweet unique-style characters and elements.

Learn to draw plants, animals, and more in the distinctive Japanese character style--and have fun while you're creating!

Let popular Japanese artist Sachiko Umoto show you simple methods for sketching butterflies, flowers, cactus, bees, birds, fish, and more. Build on basic lines and shapes to create flower petals, butterfly wings, tree branches, and leaves. Discover helpful tips that will improve your drawing skills, such as focusing on how branches grow, differences in flower shapes, and how poses express emotion.

See how easy it is to turn plants and animals into sweet expressive characters by adding facial expressions and clothes.

A singing butterfly? Why not! Sachiko's clear step-by-step instructions for tracing and drawing are perfect for all ages and skill levels. After mastering a few elements, build a composition that shows off your unique style. Draw lovely bouquets, sunny fields of flowers, or sketch a rabbit running by a tree. In no time you'll be creating doodles and illustrations every day in sketchbooks, art journals--anywhere you can.

Techniques you'll learn include:

• Building characters that come to life on the page
• Adding animated faces and poses to flowers, fruit, and bugs
• Drawing poses that add movement and excitement to characters
• Arranging elements into pleasing compositions
• Incorporating details and color that make your illustrations unique

Fill pages with your own Illustrated stories--or just doodle whenever the mood strikes. With Illustration School: Let's Draw Plants and Small Creatures, you'll never lack for ideas or inspiration. School was never this much fun!

Discover how the Illustration School series of books makes drawing enjoyable and stress-free. Using Sachiko Umoto's fun, easy techniques for sketching quirky animals, plants, landscapes, and people in the Japanese character style, you'll fill pages with charming illustrations that are uniquely you.