Draw Real People! (Discover Drawing Series)

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A MUST have!.......2006-10-19

As a self proclaimed 'doodler' I've always been fascinated with how you can make a drawing look lifelike... and not cartoonish. I could sit for hours and doodle and copy almost any picture, but they never looked real. This book is written in such context that even my 12 year old daughter has now taken an extreme interest in pencil drawing. It could have something to do with the examples in the beginning of the book of portraits drawn by children as young as 11 years old and they are better than anything I had ever done! After one day of reading the entire book and acquiring the recommended supplies, I took a deep breath and started the practice sessions. At the end of the first day, I decided I wanted to try to draw the eye and the lips using the newly learned techniques and was absolutely blown away at the realism on my piece of paper! Now, I shall try to draw the other facial features and then an entire face. I can't wait for my next break at work so that I can do more.

DRAW REAL PEOPLE.......2006-02-01

THIS BOOK IS EASY TO USE AND UNDERSTAND, WHICH I FIND MOST HELPFUL. THE STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ARE EASY TO FOLLOW AND THE RESULTS ARE AMAZING. I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR EITHER A BEGINNER OR AS A HELPFUL REFRESHER. THE TECHNIQUES ARE PROFESSIONAL AND INFORMATIVE AS YOU GO ALONG.

I love this book!!.......2005-08-12

I am 13, and drawing has always been a major avocation for me. Normally, I don't like drawing books, because most of them only give you a limited amount of objects to draw, in one pose. The most useful part of the book was always the first one or two pages, which normally include an introduction to drawing and the basics of shading. "Blocking out the subject in simple shapes" has never worked for me, for whatever reason, and neither has the technique for drawing portraits where you put in lines where the eyes should go, exc... I found my drawings to be of much better quality if I simply looked at the picture and tried to draw it, as opposed to following the step by step instructions. Using this straightforward style, I started drawing people's faces, until I was recommended this book. I bought it, and it was a worthwhile investment.
I'd never heard of this particular drawing style before, and I wish I had; it would have saved me much trouble. I wish I could post a before and after picture for you to see how much my drawing improved when I started using this style. Shading is explained thoroughly throughout the book, as is highlighting and many other important techniques. I recently painted an 8x8 mural of our school logo, a Native American, and this book provided priceless help. Though it might help to go through some trial and error first, I highly recommend this book to all classes of artists, beginners to professionals.

Draw Real People.......2004-07-02

I am just getting back into my artwork after many years. Although I have always drawn many things I never thought I possessed the talent or ability to draw a realistic portrait. Whenever I would attempt it, the portrait would be a beautiful picture of someone, but NOT the person I was attempting to draw. I just could not seem to make it look life the person. When I followed Lee Hammond's method using the grid, my portrait came out not only realistic, but it looked exactly like my daughter. My friends and family were amazed by the exact likeness of the portrait. This was on my very first attempt. I would highly reccomend her book. I plan on getting seriously into portraits now. I cannot believe what I was able to accomplish through her instruction. I am definitely going to be purchasing more of her books.

Draw Real People.......2003-12-10

I am half way finished with the book. Gridding photograohs makes you break down the parts and shapes of the nose, mouth, eyes, and ears. It changes how you veiw subjects you see shapes and not the whole face. I found trying to draw the whole face very over whelming as a person getting back into drawing. The gridding process teaching you symetry and helps you draw individual features better on the face.

Local TV eye-opener: politics aren't poison: stations discover that stories about real people draw audiences. (First Person).: An article from: American Journalism Review

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Local TV eye-opener: politics aren't poison: stations discover that stories about real people draw audiences. (First Person).: An article from: American Journalism Review
Dave Iverson , and Tom Rosenstiel
Manufacturer: University of Maryland
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1409 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Local TV eye-opener: politics aren't poison: stations discover that stories about real people draw audiences. (First Person).
Author: Dave Iverson
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Maryland
Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Page: 18(2)

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This remarkably produced monograph on the German artist Kathe Kollwitz will be eagerly anticipated by lovers of 20th century art. Kollwitz was one of the truly great draughtspeople of the century, and this book presents 140 of her drawings and illustrations, including portraits, nudes, and group scenes. A devout socialist and pacifist, whose political thinking was shaped by the loss of her son in World War I, Kollwitz was a staunch believer in art reflecting the political and social conditions of the times. Thus, we find here drawings of the poor, the displaced, images of protest, of death and sorrow. These are beautifully rendered drawings printed with the most exquisite quality. This book will stand as a testament to the brilliance of the artist. German Language Only.

Edited by Jutta Hulsewig-Johnen. Essays by Alexandra Von Dem Knesebeck and Gisela Schirmer. Foreword by Thomas Kellein and Franz Joseph van der Grinten.

100 color and 80 b&w.
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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
Anne Wilkes Tucker , Richard Misrach , and Rebecca Solnit
Manufacturer: Bulfinch Press
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Crimes & Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
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Richard; text by Tucker, Anne Wilkes Misrach
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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach
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Very Disappointing.......2002-09-06

This book is not up to the normally high standards of the Slayers Guide series. Very skimpy on useful or new ideas, the only suggestions for making orcs tougher enemies are "use lots and lots of them" and make them higher-level monsters. Wow, I'd never have thought of those. This book presents absolutely nothing original or new about orcs, no new battle tactics, nothing to make them unique. A few [disappointing] social conventions to justify calling it a "guide" (orcs mix blood with mead to make a special brew, orcs play a sport with severed heads remarkably like the Afghan game buzkashi).

The author has a fascination with the fact that orcs will [attack] anything that moves. Not surprising, but it comes up on every other page! Also, they're really violent and cruel! No kidding...This was a weak effort all around. The cover art is cool, but the childish illustrations on the inside are just pathetic. For a better approach to the Slayers Guide idea, check out The Slayers Guide to Hobgoblins. I should have taken the money for this one and rolled a smoke instead. This book [disappointed].

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In this small format version of the best-selling book, Joe McMichael and Irish Jack Lyons assemble an amazingly thorough chronicle of live performances played by the hardest working rock n roll band of all time. The Who clocked up a staggering 2,000 plus live concerts in a career that saw them play everywhere from West London pubs, via the Monterey, Woodstock and Isle of Wight Festivals, to Wembley Stadium, and Madison Square Garden. Features over 1,500 gigs, including set-lists, eye-witness accounts and background notes, backstage dramas, audience reactions, and on-stage rants. Now updated and amended to include all the concerts of the American tour of 2002 that was overshadowed by the sudden death of John Entwistle. With a foreword by Pete Townshend and contributions by leading Who commentators, including Chris Charlesworth, co-producer of The Who s acclaimed 4-CD box set.

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If you can have only one Who book. . . . .......2006-06-21

I passed on this book when it first appeared figuring a mere concert list wouldn't be very interesting, what a blunder! This book is far more than a concert chronology, it's an enthralling history of the band, bursting with photos and short essays on the people, places and events that make up Who history. This was clearly a labor of love for the authors, and if Who fanatics have been able to find a few errors scattered around, big deal, I'm just glad the book was reissued as a sub-compact paperback updated to the shows following the death of John Entwistle. As the surviving members of The Who have chosen to "Defiantly spit into the abyss" and continue to tour to critical and public acclaim, further editions of this fine book are entirely justifed. And boy was I thrilled to recently find I still have a ticket stub from a Who show thirty years ago documented in this book. There are maybe half a dozen essential books about The Who and this is one of them, if it's the only one you buy then you've made a good choice, it's outstanding whether you're a new Who fan or a grizzled Wholigan.

A Near-Complete Who Record.......2005-04-04

Seem to be reading and listening a lot to the Who, and this book was an impulse buy.

For the fan, this is a way to walk through history with the band, from the earliest beginnings as the Detours, and even before with Daltrey's founding of the group, and Townshend and Entwistle's affiliation with others.

A lot of stories, memorabilia, set lists, and very interesting stuff.

Great book with one significant flaw.......2004-11-26

First thing you should know is that while this is a thick book, it is also small; around 6" x 5", which is quaint, and not a flaw in anyway, just a surprise. There are lots of great pictures, reviews, accounts, and set lists provided.

The flaw, to my mind though, is that there are no references about circulating RECORDINGS of these shows. Most of the hardcore fans who would buy this book probably collect tapes, bootlegs, and cdrs. Most of the time a setlist or stage comments are provided for a show it's because a recording exists. I would have loved it if the authors could have aknowledged this with brief comments like, "A clear, but distant audience recording exists for the first 80 minutes of the concert" or "A mixed soundboard recording of this show has been bootlegged and rereleased many times." There are websites with this kind of information and other highly collected bands, such as Led Zeppelin, have entire books devoted to the collection of unreleased material.

If you're a fan you're guaranteed to enjoy this book regardless, so get it!

The Who's amazing journey 1963 - 1997.......2002-01-24

I really enjoyed this book. Especially the great photos included.
I bought my copy in London, so it was nice to travel parts of London and see a few places where they actually played! But it's really only for die hard fans of the band (like myself, I guess). Also interesting are the set lists to the shows they played.
I'm no good at writing reviews, but I'll highly recommend this one. It's worth the price. A thanks to Irish Jack and Joe McMichael for making it.

And of course The Who. The greatest band in the world.

The Who's Playbook.......2000-07-11

If you get an opportunity to see The Who (now on tour - summer/fall 2000) please do so. Other than Bruce Springsteen, they are without peer on stage.This book does a fine job of detailing Who gigs from the early 1960's (as the Detours)to the 1996-1997 Quadrophenia tour. The authors recap the songs, the stage "happenings" (smashed guitars, onstage feuds, etc.)and other "Odds & Sods". It's kind of like a baseball box score for Who fans! If you're already a Who fan (or are an aspiring one) this is THE book for you!

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Social change in the past quarter of a century has had a considerable impact on health and medicine. Modernity, Medicine and Health brings together a variety of influential sociologists who present their theories on the nature and depth of change, and on the modernity/postmodernity debates, and apply them to issues of health and healing. Among the issues covered are the parameters of the futures of medical sociology itself, the potential and limitations of the postmodern perspective, the interface with public health, analyses of class and gender, new notions of citizenship, complementary medicine, and life and death in postmodern times.

Should I Call the Doctor?
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Should I Call the Doctor?
Christine A. Nelson , and Susan Pescar
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Should I Call the Doctor?: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Your Child's Illnesses and Injuries
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Christine A. Nelson , and Susan Pescar
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Fifty-one years old when the Civil War broke out, Alpheus S. Williams was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers in the Army of the Potomac. These letters to his daughters, written in the most rigorous wartime circumstances, reveal the high-ranking officer’s views on events from Bull Run to Georgia and the Carolinas to Gettysburg. He characterizes McClellan, Sherman, Hooker, and Meade; scorns a system of promotion that rewards grandstanders and press-kissers; and explodes in fury at the contractors whose graft cheats the soldiers of blankets and shoes in midwinter. He pities the people and animals thrust in the path of the cannon and is acutely attuned to the weather and landscape. Every line by Williams is stamped with intelligence and sensibility, and his combatant’s view of the battle at Antietam is the most stirring in Civil War literature.

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CNN covered Katrina with the depth and breadth unmatched by any other news organization. Follow their coverage with this chronicle of the events leading up to and the aftermath of the century's most devastating natural disaster.

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Katrina.......2007-09-26

I am a Katrina survivor. I was there during and after the storm. First of all, many people do not know the facts. New Orleans is 12 feet below sea level not 7. Second the levees were contracted to be built to withstand a cat.3 hurricane. The core of engineers were the ones who built the levees wrong. Third the State of Louisiana asked for money to rebuild the levees many years ago. That money was denied. It was too expensive for the country. So now it cost many billions of dollars to rebuild the city. A fine example of our government! A large number of very poor people were not able to evacuate. They had no transportation. They had no relatives to go to as all their families were living in the same poor section of town as they were. They had no money to go to hotels or any other place. These people were forgotten and left to die. Their was no disaster plan that stated how to evacuate the poor. Hundreds of school buses went underwater. These buses could have been used to evacuate the poor. I am ashamed to be a native of New Orleans. My city and state and country let us all down. The book is very good and describes the situation well. You really had to be there to see all the news and writers never saw. Many of us have left our home city, never to return. This is so sad!

Biased reporting........2006-03-13

This book, like most written and portraying Hurricane Katrina, leads the reader to the conclusion that New Orleans is the only area devastated thereby. For anyone's information, New Orleans was on the West, or weak, side of Katrina. New Orleans was flooded because: 1) elevation there is about 7 feet BELOW sea level and 2)their levy system has NEVER been built to withstand cat 3 or greater storms. EVERY drop of rain that falls in New Orleans has to be pumped out, one way or the other. If the citizens of New Orleans had put more money into improving their levy system instead of the SuperDome, they might very well be living in dry and undamaged homes today instead of morning their dead and trying to put their city back together. New Orleans will be rebuilt someday and I hope and pray that they have learned and benefited from this disaster and won't make the same mistakes again. If you want to read and look at a balanced book coverning Hurricane Katrina, this isn't it.

Excellent bit of History.......2006-02-25

Hurricane Katrina changed the lives of many. This book recounts what occurred during that time in history.

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