Walter Foster Book, Assorted

I bought this for my daughter. She enjoys drawing, and this book is full of easy to follow step-by-step instructions for many items that artists would include in drawings. See the search inside feature at book contents for examples of things taught. Also this book is more portable (paperback, not too thick) than some other drawing books my daughter owns. Good for traveling. Equally good for those who enjoy drawing and want to expand their library or those who dont particularly enjoy drawing, but want one book with instructions to enable better drawing for school projects, etc.Highly recommend. Art of Basic Drawing (Collector's Series)

I have recently started to draw again after about a thirty year lay off. This book is the best of the 7 or 8 I have. It has a lot of example drawings on a wide range of subjects dogs, cats, wild animals, fruit, plants, really nice trees, landscapes, people, and horses The drawings are shone in graphite pencil but I adapt the shaded grayscale samples to colored pencil drawings. The example drawings are very realistic not at all cartoon or childish. This book has kept me interested and busy for about a month and I have not come close to doing all the example pictures. This book is well worth the price.

Theres no doubt that you get your moneys worth with this item. Many aspiring artists are willing to pay any price to get that head start, so it makes sense that you can get a good, basic, foundation established for less than 20 dollars. I personally felt I got my moneys worth in the first section of the book. It goes over some exercises that will definitely come in handy such as shading, and building form. You can pretty much do your own thing from there, and it has alot of how to's on other peoples work that made it in.However, it could go into a little more depth. The first things they have you draw (A chick and a dog) are thumbnail size, there arent any pointers/explanations about properly building a form with the shapes you make. You just have to play around until you can see for yourself, thats no big deal but dont be expecting a full package with this book. If you already have the basics down, dont bother with this book.

I was very impressed with the content of this book. I bought it for a 10 year old who is just getting into drawing and while it can be too complicated in spots, most of the illustrations are easy enough for her to follow and she's made some excellent progress with her skills so far. I recommend this book for all ages.

This was a gift to my Mother. She had owned this book for years but a friend had recently had a stroke and she gave him her copy to give him encouragement by drawing. She loves this book and I found it to replace the copy she had given to her friend. She is extremely happy to have it once again (Mother is in her eighties).

This book provides step-by-step directions with build-upon drawings. I discovered this book at my local library, and preferred it over several others I had viewed. It is being used for sixth grade homeschoolers who desired to add a fine art to their course of study.

Very easy to learn from. Step by step lessons that make it easy to learn how to draw.

My students learned a lot through reading and reproducing the art presented in this book. Experienced artists will find great value in the lessons included, and it is a great book to help that novice artist go up a level on their technique.