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| Draw and Sketch - Figures (Draw and Sketch) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lucy Watson
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 987930
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1581803125
Dewey Decimal Number: 702
UPC: 035313322495
EAN: 9781581803129
ASIN: 1581803125
Publication Date: February 15, 2003
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Product Description
Lucy Watson provides beginning artists with the fundamentals they need to render realistic, skillful drawings of people. She begins with an easy-to-follow overview of anatomy, then simplifies the challenging elements of perspective. Step-by- step exercises enable readers to learn as they draw, ensuring that every lesson is fun and gratifying. Watson takes readers to the next level with clear, concise guidelines for rendering mass, volume, light and tone. They'll also find invaluable tips and techniques for working with color and developing a composition. Finally, the book focuses on rendering accurate features, with guidelines for heads, eyes, noses, mouths, ears, hair, hands and feet. Lucy Watson graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London, England, with an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and a Masters in Advanced Printmaking. Highly experienced in all media, she makes her living as a freelance painter and illustrator. Her drawing, prints, and paintings have been exhibited at prestigious venues all over Europe. Lucy is the author of The Artist's Sketchbook. She lives in Kent, England.
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This is STRANGE. Watson has a similar book out same year??? June 29, 2004
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"Draw and Sketch Figures: Sketch with Confidence in 6 Steps or less" by Lucy Watson 2003:
This book is odd, because Watson just authored "Life Drawing Class" published 2003 as well (and reviewed here on Amazon also). Two books published in the same year, on essentially the same subject. This is STRANGE, for the implication must be that either book was inadequate in the first place, or both books are erratic and desperate attempts to give good art instruction in the hopes that one actually will.
The promise of "6 Steps" is gimmicky and misleading. Considering the author's additional qualification of "...OR LESS" in the title. I mean, Come on! This is basic and beginning sketching. So is it "SIX LESSONS", or is it FIVE? If the author does NOT know what business does the author have teaching? I believe a horse can count to SIX. This kind of mental indecision and vagueness suggests that the author loves to read his own "expansive" wordings, and hear his own grandiose intonations, in spite of the fact that his words lack specific meaning.
Just as in Watson's previously reviewed book, this one commits the cardinal sin of giving COLOR instruction half way through, and at only 112 pages to start with, the buyer can be assured that this book is very, VERY short on good, useful, drawing instruction. Just one more hastily slapped together book of "beginning" instruction at a rip-off price.
The illustrations are, as in Watson's other book, stiff, lifeless, and inarticulate. With a list price of $19.99, "Draw and Sketch Figures" is going to give "Drawing On The Right Side of My Ambition" some competition in wallet-gouging. So I wonder if the author or publisher would mind if you offered a payment like this:
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