Spirit: How To Draw Spirit and Friends (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) [Paperback]

DreamWorks SKG (Author, Illustrator)

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Puffin (April 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0142301175
• ISBN-13: 978-0142301173
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,534,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Spirit, May 17, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Spirit: How To Draw Spirit and Friends (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) (Paperback)

This is one of the most greatest spirit produts, It has step by step drawing tips on how to draw spirit and Friends.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I'm Not From Germany And Yet Still, I Enjoyed This Guidebook, September 27, 2005

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This review is from: Spirit: How To Draw Spirit and Friends (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) (Paperback)

I always had trouble drawing Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron, until I found this guidebook sitting on top of a pile at a recent garage sale of a troubled family who had moved away from our neighborhood. The boy and girl who lives there grew up too fast, leaving behind their children's books and simple toys, and becoming crack addicts-or, to use the language of the animated feature SPIRIT, addicts of the crack. Thus their abandoned toys seemed to speak of a childhood pushed away too quickly, like a spoiled child will push away the food on the table he secretly craves, in order to illustrate some point of self-esteem! Sad the way we starve ourselves of the things that matter.

But happily for me, little Benji had not done much coloring in this how-to guidebook. Like I say, I always had trouble sketching in the faces and bodies of the CIMARRON crew-Spirit, Rain, Little Creek, the eagle. Nothing worked, and I couldn't find anyone skilled enough at Dreamworks Animation Technique to help me at my office. The faces of Rain, Spirit, Little Creek and others would haunt my dreams at night, and when the shadows of morning crawled in across the windowpane I would struggle for a pencil, trying to trace their faces on a pad of paper. But the faces I loved grew misshapen, and the eraser at the end of the pencil was in for a beating.

Now along comes a book which shows you exactly how to get the results you desire. From the slightly square, trim face of plucky little Spirit, to the bold human planes of brave Little Creek, the whole range of anatomy is stripped bare. I said to my dog, "You'd be able to make your own tattoo of these guys if you wanted to," for as all animators know, once you know the secrets, a few brisk strokes in the right direction will bring recognizable faces to life, just as though we see them in our hearts. I went through the whole course in a little under ten weeks, turning this into the "Summer of Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron, and Friends."

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very great book!, August 5, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Spirit: How To Draw Spirit and Friends (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron) (Paperback)

You can't buy the book "How to draw Spirit and Friends" in Germany, but you can order it! I'm come from Germany and I've order this book! I hope, it is a great book. You sad it's great and the booktitle sounds very good!