Drawing for the Absolute Beginner

I needed this book to guide me through the beginning stages of drawing. It is easy to understand and contains templates to state your drawing.

Easy to follow and learn.

This disappointed me a bit as the title implied an absolute beginner would learn something from using this book. I found excercises for using a pencil, but other than line drawing, I didn’t find useful drawing excercises. Someone with more skill than I might find this more useful.

I can do this! The instructions are helpful with many illustrations.

Nice

This is extremely helpful in starting out with the basics. Drawings are turning out a lot better, and more realistic. Thank you!

Step by step instructions to help anyone get started drawing. Shows how to draw all sorts of things by using simple shapes.

There were some things I was able to take from this book and use, but about 98% of it has nothing to do with the basics of learning to draw, and just covers different styles without more than a page on how those styles are done. The first 15 or so pages cover a few basic things, and that's where it ends. What examples there are in the book for basic concepts of drawing are so complicated, it's impossible to practice. If I may be so honest, the book comes across more as a vehicle for the author to show case her work rather than an actual teaching tool. I'm going to be looking at other books for actual beginners, and no, I wouldn't recommend buying this book if you're actually a beginner.