This is a really fun and creative book which offers lots of ideas and inspiration for drawing, doodling and creating! I would highly recommend it!

Really cute step-by-step tutorials for drawing animals and other little doodle-y subjects. Very much in the vein of Ed Emberley, this book can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. I had a blast drawing some of the adorable animals (my favorite was the goose).

Learn to Draw Almost Anything in & Easy Steps provides just that - easy to follow steps. It is skewed for the youngest of artists and while easy to follow, it lacks the visual punch needed to sustain attention. It is very simplistic and basic so maybe at home art teachers may find it inspirational, but I don't see it getting much use after the initial flip through.

This is a great fun book for anyone, especially those who say they can't draw. It is extremely satisfying when you can produce something that looks just like the picture. It is perfect for children just gaining confidence in drawing and learning to experiment. The projects are cartoon like and a bit of fun. It is great book for a rainy afternoon or when you are stuck indoors looking for something to do with the kids.. Instructions are very easy to follow and there are is a good variety of different subjects to try.

Instant gratification for those who insist they do not know how to draw and then find that - with the help of this book - they actually can!

The style is cartoon (not realistic) and suitable for absolute beginners (even adults who say they can't draw to save their life) and children. The step-by-step makes it easy to follow. Even the very young can achieve something.

Draw cute animals, birds, fish, architecture, transportation, garden, great outdoors, and people.

Thank you Netgalley and The Quarto Group- Race Point Publishing for this ARC. This is my honest review.

The drawings in this book are great and the steps to draw them make it seem easy! There are so many things to draw and they are good for all children or anyone who wants to draw. I think it is great!

I received this e-book ARC of Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps by Rich Davis through Net Galley from the Quarto Group in exchange for a truthful review.
This gem of a guided drawing book sets out to show beginning artists, young and old, how to draw a collection of 100 items (animals, architecture, flowers, people and more) in a simple, cartoon style. And in only 6 easy steps!
The drawings are really cute! And the idea of 6-step Notre Dame and White House drawings made me laugh, bu they turned out pretty good!
There are some additional challenges which require 12 steps and those which combine and extend the individual guided lessons.

I like books like this that make art fun and approachable where no matter how bad you are at it you feel you could give it a go. There are great exercises here to draw lots of cute, simple things, and to start seeing things as shapes in order to create other drawings yourself. Although it seems simple, this ability to see your subject in shapes is actually a very important principle of art that allows you to create create paintings. A lovely book that will help people gain confidence with their creativity.

I received a free digital copy via NetGalley, but the opinions expressed are my own.

This book is a good starting point for the elementary age artists. Each cartoonish drawing is completed with 6 quick steps, by turning simple shapes into different objects and figures. I enjoyed that is wasn't just the basic " draw a cat, now draw a person." but had fun quirky characters to draw like woman with cake, a gardener, a forest, etc. I also loved the simple details that help with perspective as in the layering in the mountain drawing.

Thanks to Netgalley and Publisher for the Advanced Reader Copy.

I’m not sure what age range this book is aimed at (maybe a great book for adults to use alongside their children, etc), but I’ve certainly had a lot of fun with it. The book covers a wide range of topics including animals, people, transport; the pictures are in a cartoon style, so not for everyone. The steps are easy to follow (‘six easy steps’) and I was pretty proud of my attempts.

I enjoyed playing around with some drawings taught in thaught in this book. Suitable for a beginner. The kids also loved it. Would have like to have this in a format other than Adobe digital editions. Thanks for the entertainment.

Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps is a cute drawing book. A fun way for a child to learn to draw some simple items. Thanks to #Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read it. I've already used it to teach a child how to draw some flowers to make a card.

This book is fun, no doubt. The closest I've come to drawing is a single drawing class through the local art center, and trying to convince myself to doodle more (it's healthy!). The first gave me an appreciation for how much concentration and abstraction really goes into simple drawing, and this book is perfect to bolster the second!

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 favorite 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 a head, 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 stressed, but that's what I took away. :)

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.

Very cute. Will make kids independent when it come sto drawing th eblue dotted lines and then erasing them. Makes them see how you dont see the esges when it is behind something,

Its a fun art instruction book by Rich Davis to try on a lazy Sun afternoon! Easy to follow step by step instructions. Covers instructions for drawing flora/fauna to buildings to people! Fun for all ages but perfect to do with kids!

So I have zero artistic talent. I am more of a doodler. What a perfect time to learn to draw when you are quarantined with no place to go. Anything to pass the time!

So the positives:
-this was dumbed down for absolute beginners at any age
-pictures, techniques and directions were easy to follow

The negatives (I had a kindle):
-the pictures were so small and even when you zoomed in, picture quality was grainy

I think if I had received a hardcopy of this book, I may have gotten somewhere and improved on my lack of art skills. This book was a great place to start though. I think I will purchase the hardcover when it becomes available. Still a good tool to learn for basics.

Thanks to Netgalley, Rich Davis and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Available: 5/26/20

AUTHOR

Rich Davis is the author and artist who created Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps (Mini Art). Click on his name to find out more.

WHO IS THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

Davis is an artist who’s illustrations in this book appear directed towards helping children learn to draw. Parents looking for some child bonding exercises would do well to use this book to create some art with their children.

SYNOPSIS

Re-visit your childhood with this tiny 128 page book of some basic drawing methods for you and your child to make art together. The publication delivers this through a well structured 6 step method to assist in creating simple original illustrations.

Davis has focused on identifying the minimal shapes required to create the base drawings. There are double page spreads with inspirational tips to keep the aspiring artist on track and help improve their skill set. The content is laid out in a conventional pattern beginning with Animals and concludes with People. The graphics are lively and vibrant. For children, the images are raw, exciting and original works. Each of the eight chapters is:

Animals

Birds

Fish

Architecture

Transportation

Garden

Great Outdoors, and

People

The pages have high visibility name bars on the upper header portion of the page with the name of the subject in large, bright, and clear writing. Each chapter concludes with “Try these too!” ideas for the young artist to use with the six step process. This method makes creating line art fun and simplifies the construction of more complex subjects by utilizing basic forms, squares, circles and triangles.

CONCLUSION

There are two areas of creativity that are the most difficult to learn; the first is deciding how to begin and the second is how to finish your work. Davis understands this dilemma and provides practical help and advice through a structured six step process. Yet he has achieved much more than that, by creating this method he allows the child to focus on one step at a time. The structured method reduces the complexity of the subject into easy bite sized chunks. This transforms the overwhelming prospect of drawing an entire rocket into a modular sketch.

I particularly like the helicopter. As my husband, a 25 year veteran helicopter Instructor Pilot and Instrument Examiner, likes to say “A HELICOPTER – A million parts rotating rapidly around an oil leak waiting for metal fatigue to set in.” In reality they are so intricate, yet Davis has managed to condense them down into a beautiful set of basic shapes that create a cogent and believable illustration.

Young children will no doubt adore using this book to pass away happy hours learning the basics of how to draw anything.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank Race Point Publishing , NetGalley, and Rich Davis for affording me the opportunity to review Learn to Draw (Almost) Anything in 6 Easy Steps (Mini Art).

Thank you Author Rich Davis, The Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley for giving me a chance to check this book out in advance. I love drawing! Especially things I haven't drawn before. This book was a load of fun! Kids can definitely get involved and enjoy this one with their parents as well. I like how the author gives you more ideas on pages to create by using multiple characters in a scene. This is good for story building and creativity for the kids.
All opinions are my own and not that of anyone else's.

I love this book so much! Oh my goodness, it's just perfect in every way. Davis shows you how to draw just about anything, from people to churches to baobab trees to fish in hats, in six truly easy steps.

Kids can do these. Grown ups with no art experience can do these. Everybody can do these, and they are so cute and whimsical and fun. Love, love, love. I may buy a copy for our home, for the kids and adults to have fun with.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

This was such a fun way to while away an afternoon. Clear easy, very simple instructions that made quick work of turning the art of drawing into something not so intimidating. Perfect for young new artist in the making.