The Easy Drawing Book for Teens: 20 Step-By-Step Projects to Improve Your Drawing Skills

Biographical Note:
ANGELA RIZZA graduated from New York City's famed Fashion Institute of Technology in 2011 and has been creating artwork inspired by the wildlife around her home and her favorite childhood stories ever since. She enjoys teaching art and creating activity books that help others learn to draw and use their imagination. She lives in Mahopac, New York.

Review Quotes:
" The Easy Drawing Book for Teens hits all the right notes providing tutorials for high-interest subjects like optical illusions, portraiture, animals, fantasy creatures, and photo-realistic still-life compositions. This book will get any adult, teen, or ambitious preteen fired up to create. The drawing and shading skills presented here will easily transfer to unguided activities as well!" --Emily Valenza, M.Ed, Artist and Art Educator

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"If the idea of cooking vegetarian for your family leaves you intimidated, The Vegetarian Family Cookbook will definitely inject some inspiration into your meal planning! With a variety of flavors and ingredients (as well as beautiful, enticing photos), everyone is sure to find a few new favorite recipes. The lists of staple ingredients and essential tools needed for vegetarian cooking also serve as a great jumping-off point for exploring this kind of food." --Lindsay Moe, Founder of The Live-In Kitchen (theliveinkitchen.com)

Review Quotes:
"Angela Rizza is a true artist. This book is just perfect if you want to learn to draw or to improve your skills. Each lesson comes with great step-by-step explanations accompanied with beautiful illustrations. The variety of topics and examples for the reader to practice is amazing." --Carolina Jaramillo

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"I have read dozens of drawing how-to books over the years, and they've always been the same--helpful, but dull. Rizza completely turns this genre on its head. While speaking in a voice that is both relatable and entertaining, she also manages to give you drawing tutorials of fun and interesting subjects that you'd actually want to draw. Not your typical art class still life that would be thrown in the trash after completion. Rizza's tone, techniques, and subject matter are extremely agreeable for a teenage audience who wants to hone drawing skills." --Samantha Faella, Social Media Strategist

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" The Easy Drawing Book for Teens is great for those artists who have the basics down and would like to further develop their skill sets. Teenage artists are given practical advice on how to advance technically through a series of clearly thought-out exercises. A great blend of nuts and bolts and drawing advice while advancing each artist's creativity! Highly recommended." --Edward Murr, College Art Teacher

Review Quotes:
"This book demystifies the process of learning how to draw through helpful step-by-step breakdowns and great visual examples of portraits, still life setups, animals, and more. Angla Rizza does an incredible job coaching all of the fundamentals of drawing through fun, easy-to-approach projects and covers the most important tools that budding artists can use to make confident, beautiful artwork!" --Lindsay Nohl, Faculty Member at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design and Founder of Light Grey Art Lab art gallery

Publisher Marketing:

Elevate your drawing skills with this easy guide for teens

Are you a budding artist who wants to take your artwork to the next level? This book is everything drawing books for teens should be, providing the tools and techniques to tackle 20 detailed drawings--from start to finish--in just 8 simple steps.

Practice basic and next-level drawing skills such as shading, proportion, and adding fine details. Sketch your way through easy, step-by-step lessons with drawing projects ranging from modern still life to detailed portraits and finally photorealistic drawings. Find artist tips and prompts to help spark your imagination, discover your own personal style, and capture the world around you.

• Fundamentals of drawing--Build your art skills with tutorials on shading, proportion, finishing techniques, coloring, and more.
• Awesome art projects--From a Colorful Dragon to a Crawling 3D Spider, wow your friends with 20 fun and elaborate projects you won't find in other drawing books for teens.
• Space to create--Find inspiration for your own drawings with engaging prompts and plenty of blank pages just waiting to be filled with your creativity.

If you're looking for drawing books for teens but aren't sure where to start, this easy guide will help any budding artist bring their drawings to life.

Contributor Bio:Rizza, Angela

ANGELA RIZZA graduated from New York City's famed Fashion Institute of Technology in 2011 and has been creating artwork inspired by the wildlife around her home and her favorite childhood stories ever since. She enjoys teaching art and creating activity books that help others learn to draw and use their imagination. She lives in Mahopac, New York.