This extensive, step-by-step guide to drawing animals, created by artist and veterinarian Mari Suzuki, offers a unique viewpoint on the animal form.

With her unique perspective as both an artist and a vet, Mari Suzuki provides meticulous instruction on how to draw a host of animals. Exploring everything from a corgi’s expressions to a lion pouncing, ‘Drawing Animals 101’ teaches the basics in a way even beginners can grasp: the different proportions of various creatures, simple skeletal forms, how muscles attach and other physical fundamentals. While an array of animals is included — from pandas and penguins to kangaroos and elephants —dogs and cats provide the template, because we can easily observe them and their wide range of movements. Each step-by-step project is done in pencil.