Customer Reviews

Draw and Sketch - Figures

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I gave this as gift to my mother in law, She loves it. This is very introductory book for someone who is into sketching. Even if someone is not that artistic, the instructions are so detailed, that anyone can sketch.Before buying this book, I brought several sketching books from Library,but just liked this one.The author nailed it.

Great book.

Excellent instructional material for figure drawing. Easy to follow and very helpful information in learning to draw figures. Excellent book for beginning artists.

I love Lucy Watson, ever since I bought The Artist's Sketchbook- her sketching is lively and I have learned to sketch easily and without worrying about having it "finished" Don't know what I would do without her books!!

"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: