Lets you learn to look properly and get the basic outlines correct; include the key features but simplify what you see; understand how shading (such as dot stipple or cross-hatching) can transform a sketch; and, get the eye level right and see how a grid helps with the composition.[...]

Whether your ambition is to make it big as a professional portrait artist, funny cartoonist or clever caricaturist, or simply to improve your figure drawing skills for work or pleasure, this book should have you churning out first-rate sketches in no time at all.[...]