Learn to draw quirky animals and buildings. This book is aimed at the complete novice. It is fun and takes you through each drawing step by step. Kids will love drawing birds, cacti and grasshoppers. Get the kids round the table and start drawing, have fun!

A useful resource for beginners of any age.
You will not be the next Monet, but you will learn to doodle and draw some cute and simple images.
I especially loved architecture and garden section.

I cannot draw.
I still cannot draw, but I'm less terrible at it now. This book gives a great foundation to build from, but I'm pretty much sure I'll never manage much more than maybe a entangle or three. But, this was as really very neat book.

Thank you to Netgalley for connecting me with the publisher and giving me the chance to review the book.

Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps
By Rich Davis

Simple but detailed and easy to follow directions on how to create over 100 fun items seen in daily life. By combining more than one together scenes can be created with embellishments, whimsical additions, cartoon flair or illustrative aspects.

I believe this book is one that children, teens, and others would enjoy looking through and perhaps having in their library to refer to from time to time. In some ways the illustrations remind me of doodling I have done in the past.

This is not a book one would buy to create realistic representations of anything even though every drawing is easily identifiable

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I use any of the ideas? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4 Stars

I loved the simplicity of these drawings. Perfect for sketch noting, bullet journaling or notes for your loved ones. Easy to learn at any age!

'Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps' by Rich Davis shows young artists how easy it is to draw things.

There are over 100 things to draw in this book broken down in to easy steps. The book is categorized into 8 categories like animals, people, architecture, etc. At the end of every category is a challenge to draw things without the steps and an additional 12 step creation.

This is a very approachable art book for younger artists. Most everything in here should be attainable, and the skill learned to break things down into smaller pieces will help with art going forward.

I received a review copy of this ebook from The Quarto Group and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

I would recommend this book to learn how to draw some basic illustrations. It is an excellent book for children (my 12-year-old daughter liked it a lot), but it is also suitable for some beginner adults who are interested in this style. There are a lot of cute and funny illustrations you can draw in 6 easy steps. There are some 12-step challenges included in the book, too.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this! All opinions are my own.

By using simple shapes as a base, you can Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps by reading this book.
If you, or more likely your children, can barely doodle a flower, this is the perfect book to up your drawing game. It assumes no prior knowledge of art. None at all. And for some that is the right place to start. If that’s you, and you complete all the exercises in this book, you will soon be able to draw recognizable figures. You will also be able to start any beginning-level drawing book or course, if you want to continue your art education.

The art exercises are engaging. They progress at a smooth pace. By the end of Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps, you should be able to do just that (though maybe with a few more steps). Overall, this would be good to either distract or educate a young child for several days. It’s cute and engaging. 5 stars!

Thanks to Race Point Publishing, Quarto Books, and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

As a total beginner, this book was a gem and an awesome find for me! I love the concept of being able to draw anything in 6 steps, nothing more and nothing less. It really does simplify the whole process of drawing into easy steps that make the sketches much more approachable for the absolute beginner. I think my favorites from this book were all the different types of flowers. Thank you Rich Davis for this cool find, and I look forward to another book about more advanced drawings with the same easy attitude.

This is a simple guide to drawing lots of different things. The designs are quite basic but it may be good for children who are learning to draw.

I would have LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book when I was a teen -- since it shows how to draw specific things in a cartoonish fashion, with buildings, trees, birds etc that would allow you to create your own unique picture. The biggest downside in my opinion is that it doesn't really show or suggest that you do so or offer very many options, which makes it come across to me now as for a bit younger age, and possibly less appealing to adults as compared to many of the similar books that are coming out lately. However, for adults who love this cartoonish style, it will add to their repertoire of things to draw cute pictures in a simple easy and clear manner.

Want to be an artist? This is a fun and easy book to learn how to draw. Each type of figure is shown how to draw it in six simple steps. I could actually know what I drew as well as other people could too. It teaches you to draw many different things. It inspired me to drawing up stuff I had never tried to draw before. It was fun! I like how they show you step by step from the beginning to the end. That will give you the idea how to draw something else on your own. There are too many’s to learn to draw that I can’t remember them all to tell you! A great book of learning and fun!

The book passes through different groups of subjects (people, animals, etc), but really that's very arbitrary. I mean, if you are drawing a cartoon cow that just isn't fundamentally much different than drawing a cartoon armchair... but it had to be organized in some way and this totally makes sense.

The style isn't my absolute favourite comic style, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that this book shows (teaches?) you how to look at things abstractly, simplify, break them down to the edges and lines you see, and just GO. Perhaps most importantly for me, it reminds me that YOU CAN ERASE a line: if you draw a circle as the body of the cow and then need ahead, well, dangit, put the head there and ERASE the part of the circle for the body that's in the way. Don't know why that struck me as something I needed to be addressed, but that's what I took away from it. :)

The book is great for kids because it is whimsical, and also for adults wanting to speed through to feel like they accomplished something today while they were corona-quarantined. Both will like it.

This book was a good step by step drawing instruction. Most of the drawing was too “cartoonish” for my taste. However, I found the drawing good warm-up exercises.

All the exercises are very easy to follow. Rich uses black lines to show you what to draw. Blue lines show you what portion to erase and grey lines are from the previous steps.

I would recommend this drawing book to a beginner looking to improve their drawing skills.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything is a step-by-step tutorial drawing guide aimed at absolute beginners. Due out 26th May 2020 from Quarto on on their Race Point imprint, is 128 pages and will be available in paperback format.

This is an ultra simple, quick study, beginner's guide to drawing lots (and lots!) of different simple everyday items. The introduction is easy and very basic and covers how to use the book and a very little on line drawing. The 6-frame tutorials are split into thematic sections: animals, birds, fish, architecture, transportation, garden, outdoors, and people.

The format of these tutorials will be familiar to most readers. They start with simple shapes or geometric line drawings, add simple shapes and refine the outline to wind up with a recognizable finished drawing. Some of the drawings were whimsical, some were very stylized.Each tutorial page has a 'now you have a go' blank facing page for practice.

Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a superlative classroom or library book.I would also recommend this book to babysitters, grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game.

Four stars. Fun collection.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Learn how to draw (almost) anything is a really good beginners guide to drawing.
As a person who has sucked at drawing since the beginning, this book was really helpful. I was able to draw a lot of stuff easily with only six steps. This was the best thing about this book you only needed six steps to draw.
I highly recommend it to everyone.

Rich Davis has created a very colorful as well as accessible drawing guide for the beginner, whether they be an adult or child. The book is divided into eight sections: Animals, Birds, Fish, Architecture, Transportation, Garden, Great Outdoors, and People. The Architecture section is unusual and includes things you don’t usually see in a beginner drawing book, such as Notre Dame and the Brandenburg Gate.

Each of these eight topics contains between 7 and 12 six-step drawings. All the first steps begin with a basic shape and then in the 5 next steps, Davis shows you what to add and what to erase.

At the start of each section is a page of text titled “Here’s Some Inspiration” in which Davis provides some suggestions for modifying or combining the drawings you are about to learn how to do. At the end of each section is “Try These Too,” which number between 5 and 15 modifications of drawings you just did or even a scene combining them. After that is a 12-Step Challenge which tends to be a bit more complicated but do-able.

I particularly liked that some of the drawings include things in action, such as a running turtle and a jumping cat. The running turtle shows up again in “Try These Too” as a turtle on a skateboard and bouncing a ball.

This book excels at being a very user-friendly book with a colorful and sensible layout. I especially appreciated how many things one could learn to draw in only six steps and this made it a very practical, engaging and fun guide that will have you drawing in no time!

Thank you to NetGalley and The Quarto Group - Race Point Publishing for a temporary advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

Learning to Draw (Almost) Anything in Six Easy Steps was a fun and engaging book and it keeps its promise. The animals, buildings and other pictures here are simple and cartoonish (sometimes) and even I, as a non-drawer, could easily create them. At first I wondered whether I was just copying but realized that I was learning about spacing, perspective and not just replicating what was in front of me. This is definitely a beginner’s book and/or a book for children. Its cartoonish quality is appealing for children and adults with little experience. It gave me confidence and I really enjoyed myself.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.

This book was even better than I expected. The images shown are in a very friendly cartoon-doodle style and the instructions are easy to follow. I had a lot of fun trying to not just reproduce the instructions, rather tried to go for something new and fun, inspired by the book. The author himself encourages you to try to make the pictures "yours", to give them new personality and to create entertaining scenes with them.
The lighthearted and encouraging tone of the book is quite nice and refreshing and while that may make the book look as if targeted towards children only, I think we all can benefit from someone encouraging us to try and draw something fun.
I would strongly suggest this book to anyone that wants to learn drawing and anyone that's looking for style inspiration.

*Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free digital copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps is a great book and meets what it promises.It has easy to follow step-by-step instructions for drawing fun animals or transports and many more. It teaches very basic cartoon drawing with the most basic shapes. I loved how easy the instructions were and how successful and talented you feel right away. It is such an amazing way to past the time; both for the children and adults. It contains simple drawings because anything advanced can't be done in six steps. This book is ideal for someone without much experience.There are some really fun art books out there, but I think this one takes the cake as far as really teaching step by step! A must have for sure! It would also make an excellent gift for children.I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.