'I get asked these questions all the time . . . so I decided to make a book crammed full of my best advice to help you Draw Some Awesome.'

International award-winning illustrator Donovan Bixley takes you from simple line drawings and inspiring ideas, to draw character design, drawing exercises, composition and more!

How can you get started drawing? International award-winning illustrator Donovan Bixley brings his unique style to teaching kids (and grown-ups!) to draw.

In a book that spans levels of skill, Donovan takes his readers through:

warm-up exercises
mark making
sketchbooks
imagination exercises
inspirational shapes
drawing animals
faces
character creation
detail
copying
perspective
shading
shadows
composition
making an illustration
drawing a unicorn!

Of course, he does it with humor as well as skill. This book is full of tips and tricks for budding artists of all levels to come back again and again.

About the Author

Donovan Bixley is an award-winning author and illustrator and book designer, with more than 120 books published in 31 countries. His work is nothing if not varied, from the hilarious hijinks of feline aviators in his "Flying Furballs" – an illustrated chapter book series for young readers, to his award-winning illustrated biography "Much Ado About Shakespeare" – a picture book for adults. In 2015 his hybrid part-novel part-comic "Monkey Boy" won Best Junior Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards, and was selected by the International Youth Library as one of the top 200 children's books in the world. In 2018 he was the NZ Arts Foundation Children's Book Illustration Laureate and in 2021 he was named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Some of the funny things he has illustrated include Shelob making Kentucky Fried Frodo, Mozart telling fart jokes, and a veloci-rapping dinosaur. Donovan plays saxophone, piano and guitar and is frontman for the 13 piece jazz/funk band Hot Tub. He lives with his family on the edge of Lake Taupo in New Zealand, site of the greatest eruption in human history. For more information visit www.donovanbixley.com

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