Doodle with Duddle: How to Draw Dinosaurs Synopsis
Get ready for an epic dinosaur-drawing adventure and prepare to Doodle with Duddle!
Learn how to draw your favourite real-life dinosaurs, plus dinosaur characters from the original Gigantosaurus book from the creator himself, Jonny Duddle.
Featuring step-by-step guides on how to draw a range of dinosaurs and characters, a draw your own story section and the chance to create your own made up dinosaur, plus each page is packed with real dinosaur facts and trivia - perfect for your resident dino buff.
For budding artists, Jonny lets you in on his own drawing tips and tricks to really make your dinosaurs shine, and of course, he has to tell a few dinosaur jokes too!
This book is bursting with dino-drawing content, perfect for any and every dinosaur fan.
One of the World Book Day 2015 Authors Jonny spent his childhood in the wet and windy hills of North Wales, exploring forests, riding his bike for miles and miles, scrumping apples and building tree-houses. When he wasn’t outside he was drawing and busily creating worlds, sprawled across his bedroom floor, with paper everywhere.
When he realised he had to grow up and get a job, he went to college to study illustration and then got himself a proper job on a pirate ship. He spent a year climbing up and down rigging before jumping ship in Dublin because the ship’s chef didn’t like his vegetarian ways. As a landlubber, he enjoyed stints as an encyclopaedia salesman, a children’s entertainer in Majorca, a gallery warden, and an art teacher in Kang, a small village in the middle of the Kalahari Desert.
Jonny eventually ended up designing characters for computer games. Whilst working as a freelance games artist, he wrote a picture book about a sea monster called ‘The Pirate Cruncher’ and did all the pictures too, which was published by Templar in 2009. Then he helped design the characters for Aardman’s stop-motion movie ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!’.
A second picture book ‘The Pirates Next Door’ followed (which won the 2012 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize), and then Jonny went a bit sci-fi with ‘The King of Space’ picture book. In an attempt to work his way through all the things he liked drawing as a nipper, his latest book is all about dinosaurs and is called ‘Gigantosaurus!’.
Nowadays, Jonny has returned to the wet and windy hills of North Wales. He spends most of his time drawing and busily creating worlds, sprawled across his studio floor, with paper everywhere. When he’s not drawing, he likes exploring forests, riding his bike for miles and miles, scrumping apples, fixing old cars and building garden sheds.
