How to Draw: Cats: In Simple Steps

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All drawing is based on the construction of simple lines and shapes. This easy-to-follow book teaches how to draw short-haired and long-haired cats and kittens in extremely easy step-by-step stages. Polly Pinder includes a wonderful selection of all the favourite breeds including domestic and pedigree cats as well as the amazingly patterned tabbies. Even absolute beginners will be able to create fantastic drawings following these illustrations.

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JeannieZelos.com: Using five easy to follow stage sequences Polly shows us how easy it is to draw cats, beginning from simple outline shapes to fine tuning into an accurate representation of that cat. She covers varieties from cuddly kittens to aloof Siamese showing with the fine detail just how to perfect that catA" look we all recognise. The cats are in any different positions making it easy to paint one as a simple cat portrait or to incorporate it into part of another painting. Using Pollys' simple instructions and looking for shapes and working from there, its easy for even absolute beginners to create realistic and animated cats.

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Polly Pinder studied graphics at Leeds Art College. Her first job was with a Yorkshire newspaper, and she subsequently worked as a lecturer in graphic design at Wakefield District College. She has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.