Draw 50 Beasties

The Step-by-Step Way to Draw 50 Beasties and Yugglies and Turnover Uglies and Things That Go Bump in the Night

Part of Draw 50

"With its popular subject of imaginative  monsters and other nightmare inhabitants, [this]  will be a sure-fire circulator." --  Publisher's Weekly.
"Leslie can draw the best beastie I ever saw!" Such peer acclaim and encouragement generate incentive. Contemporary methods of art instruction (freedom of expression, experimentation, self-evaluation of competence and growth) provide a vigorous, fresh-air approach for which we must all be grateful.
LEE J. AMES has created more than 27 books in the Draw 50 series, including, most recently The Draw 50 Way. He lives in Mission Viejo, California. View titles by Lee J. Ames

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"With its popular subject of imaginative  monsters and other nightmare inhabitants, [this]  will be a sure-fire circulator." --  Publisher's Weekly.

Excerpt

"Leslie can draw the best beastie I ever saw!" Such peer acclaim and encouragement generate incentive. Contemporary methods of art instruction (freedom of expression, experimentation, self-evaluation of competence and growth) provide a vigorous, fresh-air approach for which we must all be grateful.

Author

LEE J. AMES has created more than 27 books in the Draw 50 series, including, most recently The Draw 50 Way. He lives in Mission Viejo, California. View titles by Lee J. Ames

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