Welcome to How To Draw Wildlife
I would like to share with you some of my insights and challenges in my experience as a wildlife artist so that I can help you along your journey of drawing wildlife. My mission is for you to enjoy your drawing as fully as possible.
I believe that if you truly love doing something that you will do it well anyway. Sure, there are going to be challenges yet I view them as something to ‘get through’ rather than a wall that stops you from going any further. From my experience of drawing animals I have noticed that when I do persevere through the challenges the whole process of drawing flows almost to the point of becoming ‘second nature.’
About Me
I would like to share my background with you to give you a picture of how I evolved to be the artist that I am today.
I am an Australian artist who lives and works on Sydney’s northern beaches with my husband and two children. I have loved drawing ever since I was a child and was lucky enough to receive some encouragement and nurturing of my drawing ability from my father who recognised it when I was about 3 years old. Funnily enough, in school I was always the best at art and the worst at maths ! As I approached the end of my school years I had no career direction because I failed so badly in my exams. For several years I meandered more and more away from my art with a terrible empty feeling of no sense of purpose, trying various ‘jobs’, yet nothing filled the void.
