A review by hollygo12345
20 Ways to Draw Everything: With Over 100 Different Themes - Including Sea Creatures, Doodle Shapes, and Ways to Get from Here to There by Rachael Taylor, Editors of Chartwell Books, Trina Dalziel, James Gulliver Hancock

4.0

If you are looking for a step-by-step drawing book, then 20 Ways to Draw Everything is not the book for you. What fills the pages of this book is loads and loads of inspiration. So for example, there is a sea turtles chapter that consists of 20 very different drawings of turtles. There are of course different angles, like facing forward, a side profile, facing diagonally, and an aerial view but that is not the only difference. A few are angular, without any curved lines, and another is a silhouette without any lines touching. Nearly all are black and white though there is one green one. Each shell of these twenty turtles has a different design. And there are more differences but you will have to get the book to see them.

20 Ways to Draw Everything is divided into three sections. The first one is Get Up And Go and consists of 36 examples, including bikes, strollers, shoes, trains, hot air balloons, sailboats, antique cars, and magic carpets.

Under The Sea is the second section and it also contains 36 different subjects, such as jellyfish, seahorses, seals, crabs, sea turtles, manatees, and mermaids.

The last section is titled Oodles Of Doodles, which includes 37 different types like squares, flowers, stars, tornadoes, houses, flourishes, spirals, trees, and question marks.

It’s a lot of fun to flip through the pages of this book and see all the different ways things can be drawn. With over 100 themes, there is sure to be many that will appeal to you. 20 Ways to Draw Everything is a fantastic resource to have on hand and it will provide tons of inspiration for new artists as well as those more accomplished.

Thank you to Chartwell Books and NetGalley for an advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.