Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Dragsters, Vintage Cars, Dune Buggies, Mini Choppers, and Many More... - Softcover

Lee J. Ames

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823085767 ISBN 13: 9780823085767

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2012

Synopsis

Targeted at young aspiring artists seeking to develop their technical skill and build a repertoire of subjects, Lee J. Amess Draw 50 series shows you how to draw with ease using his signature step-by-step method. His clear instructions help budding artists explore their interests in a fun, familiar way. With over three million copies in print, the Draw 50 series has successfully shown children how to create everything from a robin to a spaceship, Tyrannosaurus Rex to skyscrapers, and UFOs to racing cars.

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About the Author

Lee J. Ames began his career at Walt Disney Studios and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at Dowling College on Long Island, New York. He directed his own advertising agency and illustrated over 150 books, ranging from preschool picture books to postgraduate texts. A prolific author of more than 30 Draw 50 books, Lee Ames died at the age of 90 in June 2011.

From the Back Cover

"Takes would-be artists from the first tentative pencil line to the completed drawing of such vehicles as a Corvette, a BMW motorcycle, and a Euclid dump truck." -- "Booklist.
An IRA-CBC Children's Choice, An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.

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"Leslie can draw a Rolls-Royce better than anybody else!" Such peer acclaim and encouragement generate incentive. Contemporary methods of art instruction (freedom of expression, experimentation, self-evaluation of competence and growth) provide a vigorous, fresh-air approach for which we must all be grateful.
New ideas need not, however, totally exclude the old. One such is the "follow me, step-by-step" approach. In my young learning days this method was so common, and frequently so exclusive, that the student became nothing more than a pantographic extension of the teacher. In those days it was excessively overworked.
This does not mean that the young hand is never to be guided. Rather, specific guiding is fundamental. Step-by-step guiding that produces satisfactory results is valuable even when the means of accomplishment are not fully understood by the student.

Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823085767
• ISBN 13: 9780823085767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64