1. Shape Drawing Challenge
The featured book leaves the finished subject open, with repeated shapes and illustrated possibilities.
Starting action: Find different interpretations of repeated starting shapes. Guidance: All ages.
10 Books for Grid References and Independent Invention
A matching grid tells the artist where a reference line belongs. A shape exercise leaves the finished subject open.
Why these books belong together
This comparison preserves that difference and adds blank practice space as a companion.
This is a publisher’s selection from Kevin Coulston’s catalog, not an independent review or sales ranking. Numbers help browsing. Shape Drawing Challenge is the open-ended title; its companions retain their own formats.
2. Draw by Grid: Christmas
Christmas pictures become reference-copying projects in this grid edition.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
3. Draw by Grid: Cartoon Robots
Cartoon Robots in the grid series offers a completed machine reference divided into smaller areas.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
4. Draw by Grid: Cartoon Cats & Dogs
Cartoon Cats & Dogs in the grid format asks the artist to locate and copy pet details.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
5. Draw by Grid: Cartoon Dinosaurs
Cartoon Dinosaurs in the grid format puts reference observation at the center of the drawing.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
6. Draw by Grid: Alphabet Monsters
Alphabet Monsters organizes letter-creature references through the grid format.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
7. Draw by Grid: Baby Robots
Baby Robots in the grid format provides small-machine references and a blank invention grid.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
8. Draw by Grid: Alien Cyborgs
Alien Cyborgs in the grid series organizes mechanical-creature references into matching squares.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
9. Draw by Grid: Goofy Faces
Goofy Faces in the grid edition turns expressions into a visual-reference task.
Starting action: Copy a divided reference into matching drawing squares. Guidance: Ages 5+.
10. How to Draw: Sketchbook
How to Draw: Sketchbook provides more than 100 blank pages for drawing room.
Starting action: Use the blank space for reference practice or independent ideas. Guidance: Choose for the artist.
Choose the task before ordering
Compare the four drawing approaches and try a real sample or a clearly labeled website practice page. The subject and the starting action both matter.
Keep the next idea open
Shape Drawing Challenge gives artists 16 repeated beginnings, six illustrated examples per shape, and room for 480 independently chosen drawings.