Tital A.E. How to Draw (Titan a. E.) [Paperback]

William Conor (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Titan a. E.

Contains step-by-step instructions for drawing the characters from the movie.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Price Stern Sloan (June 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843175869
• ISBN-13: 978-0843175868
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,634,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I was expecting a little more, May 27, 2000

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This review is from: Tital A.E. How to Draw (Titan a. E.) (Paperback)

I was slightly disappointed when I received this book. There is only one drawing for each character along with a brief description of the character and five steps on how to draw them. The book starts off with an introduction from Cale Tucker (main character). I thought there would be more drawing tips for each character and that it would show how to draw the characters faces, etc., but there's only one pose for each character to draw. The characters featured are Cale, Akima, Korso, Preed, Gune, Cook, Stith, the Drej, and Chief Gaoul. Included also is a guide how to draw each of the spaceships. There's also some graph paper in the back to draw the characters on, which takes up half the book. I recommend this book to Titan A.E. fans, but it would have been nice to see some more poses and tips to draw from.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars next-to-useless, July 20, 2000

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This review is from: Tital A.E. How to Draw (Titan a. E.) (Paperback)

This is a good book if all you want is to draw each charecter in a single pose, but not anyhting more then that. It has onlt one picture of each charecter. The drawing method isn't even that great. It uses grids, and grids are useless if you want to truely learn how to DRAW the character from memory. When you use the traditional ball-and-line method (which real animators use), you learn how to "see" your drawing in verious dimentions which allows you to draw the charecter in different poses. It also makes for better remembering as to HOW to draw the character. With the grid-method the book uses, you only see the charecter in one pose, and one dimention. Totally useless if you want to draw from mind. Buy this book if you are simply out to collect merchandise from this great movie, or if you just want the nice pictures (as the pictures of the charecters are actually nice to look at).

5.0 out of 5 stars Great characters, rare and out of print, June 17, 2010

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This review is from: Tital A.E. How to Draw (Titan a. E.) (Paperback)

If you have never owned a "How to Draw" book based on animated show, TV or movie character, you may be dissapointed, but you need to put this book in perspective. None of these character based books can actually teach you how to draw, so the titles are a misnomer. These type of books are meant for those that already have some basic drawing skills. You use the model sheets, poses and other items in the books to help you draw something new.

A real book that actually teaches you How to Draw would be something to see, as it requires years of practice, and maybe classes. Some natural talent would also be helpful. There are a few good books that teach kids some basic drawing skills I can recommend, such as the Ed Emberly books, or the Mark Kistler books. Kistler videos are also great. If your kid improves from there, then you could try them on some of the Jack Hamm books as their skills increase. For adults try the Bert Dodson book, "Keys to Drawing", or the book by Mark Willenbrink. From these books you can learn about perspective, depth, scale, shading techniques, viewpoint, drawing tools and more.

Back to the Titan AE book, it is not better or worse than any of the other character based books that are titled How to Draw Batman, Spiderman, Looney Tunes, etc. As a part of that genre I think it does fine. It has Cale, Korso, Akima, Tek, Preed, Goonj, Stith, the Drej, and others each in one pose. It has ships including the Valkryie, Phoenix, and the Titan. Then it has blank grid sheets in the back of the book to use. I bought this book years ago, but after reading the reviews here I wanted to add my own perspective to the discussion. By the way, the book will likely never be reprinted, for that matter nothing from the movie will, and sooner or later will increase in value over time - so hang onto your copy.