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Summary: This is STRANGE. Watson has a similar book out same year???
Review: "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 authors additional qualification of "...OR LESS" in the title, and you can rest assured this author is big on promises, and small on delivering the goods. 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.
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Summary: This is STRANGE. Watson has a similar book out same year???
Review: "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 authors additional qualification of "...OR LESS" in the title, and you can rest assured this author is big on promises, and small on delivering the goods. 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.
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