Customer Reviews

Draw 50 Flowers, Trees and Other Plants

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I am a horrible but determined artist. I have enjoyed the "How to Draw 50..." series since I was very young. However, this particular book is not helpful: majority of the drawings are far too intricate to follow, most of them are unknown plants and flowers, and it fails to teach something.

Unlike the "How to Draw 50 Athletes" this book doesn't have a goal, other than to instruct you on how to mimic some plants and flowers. Whereas, after going through the "Draw 50 Athletes," I learned how to draw the human body; the muscles, head features, proportions, and how they moved.

This book is not for beginners I assure you of this. I understand nature is harder to recognize and capture, but the book just was too difficult to follow, I was only capable of drawing 12 of the 50, and I do each one many times, and I still showed no improvement.

It's just not worth owning. You won't learn anything, and you wont enjoy the process of drawing the plants and flowers. I promise.

In My Humble Opinion
John G (Who am I)

This is for someone with a little artistic ability. The flowers and trees are shown in a few steps with the end result being very detailed. Not a step by step for someone without any talent or experience.

This is a great instructional book. It takes you step by step thru the process. I would reccommend it to anyone starting out in drawing.

I needed something for my 88-year old Mother to do to keep her mind active and her fingers limber. She'd expressed an interest in drawing and painting. (A reincarnation of Grandma Moses perhaps?) I bought this book to help give her some instruction in art. She's in heaven, and has found a hidden talent she didn't know she had. This book is very detailed and is perfect for teaching her the basics of drawing. We have several artists in the family so there is already some genetic talent there, but I think even someone who can't draw a straight line could learn from this book.

I got what I expected and wanted. And with everything else the key is practice, practice and practice. If you like to look at something and draw what you see step by step this book is for you. The way the book is written and set-up it is done in such a way to draw what you see without depending too much on easy step by step. Easy step by step is for the bare bones beginner to help them build their self confidence and to teach them, but this book goes a little further it does it in such a way to not let you become too dependent on the step by step. T would recommend this and more than likely all the others too to anyone who wants to learn to draw.

Christmas present that Santa picked out. About a 1/2 dozen intro to drawing instruction books for my Daughter. You can't get a much better recommendation than that. She liked it.

book is good for drawing from scratch. it's helpful for someone just beginning to study art.

On library day at school my daughter usually brings home an art book of some kind. Most of the time it was a book by Lee J. Ames. Marissa really wants to draw well but at 8 doesn't understand that you have to work hard at it. I suggested to her that she get a piece of white paper and trace over the drawings and then color them in. She has really made some beautiful drawings using this book.