Review: Draw Like An Artist 100 Realistic Animals by Melissa Washburnburn

Draw Like An Artist: 100 Realistic Animals by Melissa Washburn leaves me with mixed feelings... on the one hand, when I attempt to draw from it, I feel like I'm missing some important component -- the one that makes the drawing actually look like a real animal.  I believe that comes from practicing from life, over and over, actually drawing real life animals.    

On the other hand, I like this book much more than many others of the oval and circle type -- and I feel like my results (below) actually look like more like a real animal and not just a cartoon figure.