**Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful winged forms, *Draw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects* is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring artists, fantasy and scientific illustrators, urban sketchers—anyone who’s seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills.** This contemporary, **step-by-step guidebook* *demonstrates **fundamental art concepts** like proportion, anatomy, and spatial relationships as you **learn to draw a full range of winged creatures** , all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn’s clear and elegant drawing style ****will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come. Learn how to: * Establish basic shapes and symmetry * Articulate lines for body shapes, wing forms, and shading * Add defining details *Draw Like an Artist: 100 Birds, Butterflies, and Other Insects* is a library essential for any artist interested in learning how to draw the fascinating forms of birds and winged insects. The books in the **Draw Like an Artist series** are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.