Spaceships, Aliens, And Robots You Can Draw (ready, Set, Draw!)

THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK j Millbrook Press / Minneapolis The images in this book are used with the permission of: © iStockphoto.com/Dzianis Miraniuk, p. 4; © iStockphoto.com, pp. 4, 5, 23; © iStockphoto.com/Boris Yankov, p. 5; © iStockphoto.com/ JR Trice, p. 5; © iStockphoto.com/Tobias Helbig, p. 7; © iStockphoto.com/Tamara Kulikova, p. 9; © iStockphoto.com/Tina Rencelj, p. 11; © iStockphoto.com/Andreas Gradin, p. 15; © iStockphoto.com/ Shaun Lombard, p. 19; © iStockphoto.com/Perry Kroll, p. 27; © iStockphoto.com/Lars Lentz, p. 31. Front cover: © iStockphoto.com/Tobias Helbig (desert); © iStockphoto.com/Perry Kroll (Mars); ©Â€Iofoto/Dreamstime.com (hand). Edited by Mari Kesselring The publisher wishes to thank Marcel Bergerman of Carnegie Mellon University for serving as a consultant on this title. Text and illustrations copyright © 2010 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Millbrook Press A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brecke, Nicole.  Spaceships, aliens, and robots you can draw / by Nicole Brecke and Patricia M. Stockland ; illustrated by Nicole Brecke. p. cm. — (Ready, set, draw!) Includes index. ISBN: 978–0–7613–4167–3 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)  1. Outer space in art—Juvenile literature. 2. Science fiction in art—Juvenile literature. 3. Drawing—Technique—Juvenile literature. I. Stockland, Patricia M. II. Title. NC825.O9B74 2010 741.2—dc22 2009023996 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 – BP – 12/15/2009 eISBN978-0-7613-5982-1 table of contents About This Book 4 Helpful Hints 5 How to Draw a UFO 6 How to Draw an ALIeN 8 How to Draw a robotic dog 10 How to Draw a giant robot 12 How to Draw a cyborg 16 How to Draw an astronaut 20 How to Draw a Mars rover 24 How to Draw a space shuttle 28 Further Reading 32 Index 32 ABout this BOOK Cyborgs, robots, and UFOs! Whether real or unknown, these creations are out of this world! With the help of this book, you can start sketching your own science-driven designs. Soon you’ll know how to create many different spaceships and robots. Follow these steps to create each robot, alien, or spaceship. Each drawing begins with a basic form. The form is made up of a line and a couple of shapes. These lines and shapes will help you make your drawing the correct size. A First, read all the steps and look at the pictures. Then use a pencil to lightly draw the line and shapes shown in RED. You will erase these lines later. b Next, draw the lines shown in BLUE. c Keep going! Once you have completed a step, the color of the line changes to BLACK. Follow the BLUE line until you’re done. WHAT YOU WILL 4 NEED h a rp pencil s en er colored penc ils helpful hints Be creative. Use your imagination. Read about astronauts, space shuttles, and robotic dogs. Then follow the steps to sketch your own book of real and unreal science marvels. Practice drawing different lines and shapes. All your drawings will start with these. e r a se r pencil paper Use very light pencil lines when you are drawing. Helpful tips and hints will offer you good ideas on making the most of your sketch. Colors are exciting. Try to use a variety of shades. This will add value, or depth, t