Readers learn to draw lifelike animals, people, flowers, landscapes and more from veteran artist and instructor Lee Hammond using simple techniques and colorful step-by-step demonstrations.
Lee shows her proven graphing and blending techniques that translate into remarkable drawings; demonstrates the shape and 'puzzle piece' theories that can apply to anything readers want to draw; and, gives plenty of quick tips for achieving lifelike textures and colours using nothing but crayons.
Polly "Lee" Hammond is an illustrator and art instructor from the Kansas City area. She owns and operates the Midwest School of Illustration and Fine Art in Kansas, where she teaches realistic drawing and painting.She is expanding her career into writing children's books which she will also illustrate. Recently married, she is sharing her husband's love of motor sports and beginning a new aspect of her career by illustrating various types of racing.