Improve your skills and techniques for drawing mammals!

This small, portable book presents more than 500 drawings for 100 species of mammals, collected into categories of habitat—land, water, and air. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella defines the anatomical characteristics that are common to this class of animals (to which humans also belong) and demonstrates the links between form and function for mammals based on their behaviors, such as burrowing, walking, running, leaping, climbing, flying, and swimming. The instruction and drawings in this book offers profound insights for artists of all kinds, helping you in both your observational drawing of mammals and your creation of imaginary animals so that they will appear realistic and believable.

Geared toward artists of all levels, from beginners through professionals, this handy, pocket-sized book will help spark your imagination and creativity.

(Publisher's Note: This book features an “exposed” binding style. This is intentional, as it is designed to help the book lay flat as you draw.)

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

EARTH

Digging

Walking

Running

Leaping

Climbing

AIR

Hovering

Flying

WATER

Swimming

Resources

About the Author

Michel Lauricella received his education at Paris’s École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (National School of Fine Arts). He has been teaching morphology for over twenty years, first at the Émile Cohl school in Lyons, then at the city of Paris’s Ateliers des Beaux-Arts, the Gobelins school in Paris, Lisaa in Paris, and the Atelier in Angoulême. He currently teaches at the Fabrica114 studio in Paris.