The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals© focuses on learning how to draw animals using solid drawing principles. The emphasis of the book is on learning to draw animals by understanding action, analysis of form, construction, expressive drawing, and simplified anatomy. An approach to drawing animals from life (a challenging and sometimes frustrating exercise) can be learned from the principles laid out in this book.

The importance of drawing from imagination and methods to go about it are also a key topic. The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals© is geared toward all levels of artists from beginning to advanced. Anyone interested in learning how to draw animals or take their current animal drawing to the next level, will greatly benefit from this book.