Drawing for Dummies

Book Description

On a simple piece of paper, a fierce bird of prey can swoop down upon its terrified victim, an adoring father can share laughter with the infant daughter cradled in his arms, raindrops can glisten on the hood of a vintage sports car, a lightening bolt can cut across the night, offering a glimpse of trees ominously silhouetted against the blackness. Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it’s something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn drawing basics. Its author, professional illustrator and long-time art educator Brenda Hoddinott, has a simple philosophy—that only you can teach you to draw. With that in mind, she arms you with the tools you need to explore the basics and then coaches you through 30 hands-on drawing projects. You'll quickly

Conquer the basics of line and shading
Develop an eye for basic shapes and contours
Discover how to create the illusion of three dimensions
Render still-life subjects and landscapes
Bring animals and people to vivid life on the page

Brenda helps you tune into your right brain and see the world as an artist does. You’ll discover how to break things down into basic lines and shapes and then reassemble them on the page. Other topics covered include:

Understanding and exercising the basic skills of drawing lines and shapes, adding life and depth with shading, and rendering textures
Mastering the fundamentals of composition and planning drawings
Creating lifelike doodles and cartoon characters
Drawing the natural environment including both plants and animals
Keeping a sketchbook and drawing from memory
Drawing people, starting with babies and exploring the human face from childhood to old age

It’s never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies put you on the road of discovery and self-expression through drawing.

Customer Reviews:

Starts off good, but then.............2007-07-27

Well, I really wanted to learn how to draw well, so I picked this up. The first few chapters really help, but then it became was to hard for a beginning artist. Some of the stuff she wants you to draw is insane, and I just gave up on this book. If you want a good drawing book for beginners, don't look at this one.

mixed.......2007-03-06

I like this book on some levels. On other levels...erm...there are problems. I agree that there are a lot of cartoony drawings, as well as some more realistic ones where she seemed to go through a looong period of giving people strange looking round clown type noses. The effect is off putting...not charming as I think was hoped.
She also uses what I think is a lot of inappropriate hatching..making her subjects sometimes seem kind of...hairy looking.
But these are all style issues...I really can't find fault with her technical ability. In fact, many drawings are beautiful.
As for blending, she feels it is more difficult to do well , and that's why she doesn't really approach it here. On her website she states more or less that to blend or not should be up to the individual artist and gives a reasonable tutorial on blending correctly.
Her examples are often not illustrated enough...and written instructions seem hurried, without details on how to do what she is talking about.
Also the pics in the examples are far too small...
But this is a good book as far as being approachable goes.
It gives good solid info, and does cover many subjects.
One book is rarely definitive in any endeavor one tries to learn...and often you can't cover everything in one book.
Publishers sometimes have to think about the larger market and what it will pay for.As far as we know she may have a limit on how many words and images she can use!
These books are designed to be inexpensive and general.
Given that fact, I think this particular "Dummie" book, does pretty well.

Good basic drawing book.......2007-01-25

This is a nice basic drawing book. This book teaches you how to do tonal drawings by crosshatching. She doesn't smudge her drawings to save time and you can tell by the finished piece. This would be good practice for someone interested in printmaking.

a good book for starting out.......2007-01-09

this is a good book for starting to learn to draw. it has the basic thing you need to know. not very pretty just the facts.

The Best.......2007-01-08

Great! Even for this Dummie. I found out I CAN draw. I really enjoyed going through the different levels of techniques.

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This book was a fustrating waste of my time and money
AutoCad Review
The "For Dummies" editors need to learn how to write!!!
This is a great book
...to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism!

AutoCAD 2004 for Dummies
Mark Middlebrook
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ASIN: 0764540459

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Meet AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT® and find out where to draw the line

Tour AutoCAD's new features, make CAD standards rule, and find the friendlier xref

Once upon a time, architectural drawings were created with - gasp -pencils, paper, and T-squares. Then came AutoCAD, with all its capabilities and complications. While this book won't turn back the clock, it will make it easy to explore AutoCAD 2004's new interface, conform with CAD standards, get the lowdown on 3D, and discover all the amazing things you and AutoCAD can do.

The Dummies Way

Explanations in plain English
"Get in, get out" information
Icons and other navigational aids
Tear-out cheat sheet
Top ten lists
A dash of humor and fun

Customer Reviews:

This book was a fustrating waste of my time and money.......2007-03-02

As an absolute beginner I naturally purchased this 'for Dummies' book in the assumption that I would be guided through Autocad in the simplest form possible.
But alas no, this book immediatly immersed me in confusion and fustration. With no precise step by step guides or no simple tutorial exercises, the author Mark Middelton has no business teaching to beginners.
He then has the audacity to give himself a five star review on this review page, and whine about any criticism of his book.
I suggest he reads Cheryl R Schrocks 'Exercise Workbook for Beginning Autocad' to experience a true professional teacher in action.

AutoCad Review.......2006-11-03

This is a great book for beginners of AutoCad. It takes you step by step through the the most basic operations to the more complex ones. Great book.

The "For Dummies" editors need to learn how to write!!!.......2006-04-19

In my pursuit to learn AutoCAD as quickly as I can, I have purchased the three main tutorial books for AutoCAD 2004.

While AutoCAD 2004 for Dummies by Mark Middlebrook is the most basic of the three (Duh... it's for dummies) it still covers much of the important material in a manner that a complete newbie could probably understand a specific instruction or chapter.

The way Mr. Middlebrook approaches AutoCAD though is pretty tough to comprehend. That is, he spends the entire book discussing various commands and how to approach a drawing, but never walks you through a project.

I found David Frey's book AutoCAD 2004 and AutoCAD LT 2004 a much better instructional book and while only slightly more techie he manages to walk you through a project that lets you truly understand what he's trying to teach you.

My biggest gripe with AutoCAD 2004 for Dummies is the incredible amount of typos! Gawd! I am a high school teacher and this guy would fail an essay that I assign at the high school level. What in the world is he doing writing a book if he can't spell or proofread? Either he or his editor should go back to English class. I see that Mr. Middlebrook himself has weighed in on this. Just so he knows, I'm looking at the fourth printing (I think... The information page says 10 9 8 7 6 5 4. Does that mean it's on the third or fourth printing? I'm not a librarian!) I only mention this because he says he's only found 5 mistakes. I've found at least a dozen pretty obvious ones, and a many, many minor ones.

The single most grievous mistake is on pages 100 and 101, Chapter 5, table 5-1. It is supposed to be a table of various tools you can use to draw objects. Other than the first one, each icon is incorrectly matched with a description! For example, he shows the "copy" tool icon, but then calls it a SPLine and gives the description for a SPLine. I count eight errors in that table alone. If you are truly a newbie to AutoCAD then you might never get it sorted out. This mistake alone merits not purchasing the book or asking of your money back because it's an example of how a "typo" can be critically damaging. No, I am not an English teacher, nor am I overly zealotous toward proofreading. However, I do have only a certain tolerance for typos and when they interfere with my learning the subject, then its time to move on to another resource.

While I have learned things from this book, it is clearly the least useful of the three I have bought. The two Sybex books by Frey and Omura have much more thought and effort put into them and are extremely comprehensive. I'd pick the Frey book first though.

I do not doubt for a second Mr. Middlebrook's knowledge or experience with AutoCAD. He clearly knows his stuff. I just wish he, and his editor, would learn to proofread. That, or hire me to proofread for you! I'm as literate as your editor, computer savvy, and experienced. Look me up.

The Dummies series could really learn from the mistakes made here. I'm done with the Dummies series. There are much better resources out there, at least on the topics that I'm interested in. They've lost my purchases. Good luck though!

This is a great book.......2004-08-03

AutoCAD is one of the most complex and powerful programs I have ever seen. It's necessary to understand some potentially intimidating concepts, like paper space, xrefs and plotting procedures. After reading previous reviews of this book, I suspect the reviewers may have been disillusioned when they didn't understand everything about the program after reading part of the book.

I know a good deal about this program and I was glad to get a list and read some commentary about what was new and what was unchanged from the last release. For an experienced user, keeping up with the changes is what it's all about.

Middlebrook is clearly very knowledgeable, but remembers what it's like to be a beginner and is able to write from the point of view of someone who is poking the buttons in this program for the first time. There are often several ways to do things with AutoCAD and it was great to see tips about the easiest way for a novice to do them. In addition to the "how to" there is commentary which illuminates the "why" behind the commands, techniques and concepts. You can't get that from the online help. As someone who has tried to explain this program to people myself, I think this is exactly what's needed.

He also writes from a non-AutoDesk point of view. I got the feeling that I was getting good information rather than the company line as well as some tips that I wouldn't expect to find in the program manuals and online help, like how to save a file so that other people who are using AutoCAD R14 can use it.

It's very readable, which is a rare thing considering the technical subject. There is a sense of humor and it is a pleasure to read.

The bottom line is that it's a great way to get up to speed with the changes if you already have experience with AutoCAD, and if I were learning this program for the first time I would definitely want to have this book in order to make sense out of the program.

...to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism!.......2004-07-17

Are we looking at the same book?! At the risk of sounding like the defensive, whiny author (again!), I humbly submit:

A reader from Mc Lean, VA writes: "I picked up the manual that came with AutoCAD. The manual that came with the software was better than this book!" That's strange, since AutoCAD 2004 doesn't come with a printed manual.

wizard621 from Denver, CO writes: "There are so many typos, grammatical errors and mismatches between the examples and the software...." That's strange, too, since I recently went through the book in order to correct errors in preparation for a new printing. I found exactly five misspellings, no grammatical errors, and a handful of places where the description didn't match the software.

sbruce28 from Sandston, Virginia writes: "Doesn't anyone proof read [sic] anymore?" Yes, I do, the copy editor does, and the proofreader does. This kind of criticism is suspect when it comes from someone who doesn't realize that the verb is spelled "proofread" and who spells "AutoCAD" two different ways, both incorrect, in the same sentence.

I will agree that this book expects readers to be somewhat familiar with a few basic drafting concepts - such as scale, the representation of three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional sheets of paper, and how real-world objects are shown on (printed) technical drawings. If you don't understand or aren't willing to learn a little bit about how technical drawings are presented in your industry, then you probably aren't ready to use a CAD program.

In fact, several parts of the book review basic drafting concepts and connect them to corresponding AutoCAD concepts and practices. For example, Chapter 3 explains how drawing scale (a fundamental drafting concept) relates to drawing scale factor (an essential CAD concept). And Chapter 12 describes how many AutoCAD drafters represent printed lineweights (drafting) with object colors on the screen (CAD).

Average customer rating:

too much words with no much information

Great

This book covers very little on AutoCad 2002

Cool to read Autocad for Dummies

better than average for someone without CAD experiance

AutoCAD 2002 for Dummies
Mark Middlebrook , and Bud E. Smith
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ASIN: 0764508989

Book Description

With AutoCAD 2002 For Dummies you can start designing with the world's top drafting software -ñ no prior knowledge required. This book helps you learn both the menu and toolbar access to commands; maximize productivity by learning how to customize AutoCAD to fit the way you work; and speed up your work by using the command line as an accelerator.

This book covers product enhancements first introduced with the AutoCAD 2000i interim software. These key new features include internet-driven design capabilities. Now you can publish to the Web and collaborate with designers and customers online. Also, the user interface has been updated to bring it into closer alignment with the standard Microsoft Windows interface.

Customer Reviews:

too much words with no much information.......2003-04-06

Too much words with no much information

Great.......2002-03-22

My Husband's professor recommended this book, and my husband loves it. It is very clear, topis are clearly and understandably explained and easy to find. Recommended for anyone taking a cad class or just wanting to learn cad.

This book covers very little on AutoCad 2002.......2002-03-22

I'm a newbie to Autocad. I was fooled by the previous reviewer, thinking this might be a good book to start out my Autocad carreer. When I got the book and realized that the content is too little and it mentions NOTHING on the 3D part of AutoCAd. I have to return this book and got "AutoCAD 2002: No Experience Required". Now this is a much better book to get started if you are a newbie. It covers most of the 2d stuff then has some intro to 3d. Then I got AutoCad 2002 Bible, which covers virtually everything a Autocad.

Cool to read Autocad for Dummies.......2001-09-04

Hey, there buddy! If you wanna get rich quick, read this book with your heart and soul and keep on practicing it! The instructions are pretty clear and amazingly understandable... So what are you waiting for. Grab a copy now! And all the best to your career!

better than average for someone without CAD experiance.......1999-02-25

On the whole a well concieved, organized and written book. The books failings come from the fact that it conforms to the limitations and requirments for humor of thr "for dummies series". I would encourage the author to write a similar, more comprehensive, book outside of these limitations.

Visio 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Visio 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
John Paul Mueller , and Debbie Walkowski
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Reveal your inner business artist with Visio

Turn your ideas into diagrams and drawings with Visio's stencils and templates

If you have an idea you want to get down on electronic paper, Visio 2007 is for you, and so is this book! They're both flexible and user-friendly. Here's how to use Visio to capture ideas from simple to intricate, update data in a drawing with a single click, add and manipulate text, work with connectors, and more.

Discover how to

Create business, engineering, software, or network diagrams
Format an entire drawing using themes
Analyze "what-if" scenarios with PivotDiagrams
Produce layered multipage drawings
Save drawings to publish on the Web

Manga For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

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A great book for Manga lover beginners.
This book is great!
A wonderful introduction to Manga
Manga for Dummies
This Manga for Dummies is not just for dummies...

Manga For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
Kensuke Okabayashi
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ASIN: 0470080256

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If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings. You’ll build your skills as you draw animals, mythical creatures, superheroes, teenagers, and villains—along with their weapons, cars, and homes. Soon you’ll be inventing your own characters and placing them in stylish poses and stirring action scenes. Before you know it you’ll be knocking out storyboards and plotlines for you own Manga book. Find out how to:

Gear up for drawing with all the right tools and materials
Develop the basic skills of Manga figure drawing
Customize and accessorize your Manga characters
Design spectacular weapons, gadgets, mechas, and vehicles
Create 3-D drawings and give characters motion and emotion
Write an exciting Manga Story

Complete with a stunning, full-color 8 page insert, Manga for Dummies is your real-life guide to the ultimate fantasy world.

Customer Reviews:

A great book for Manga lover beginners........2007-06-27

I bought this book for my 17-year old stepson who always loves manga. He is very excited to have this book that can teach him Manga from very basic stuff to the leve he can draw himself.
Ths shipping is very fast although I chose free-shipping for order 25$, it arrived in a week.

I love Amazon!

This book is great!.......2007-02-24

I'm learning all sorts of things I never knew about manga - the history, the drawing techniques, the characters, and even the storylines. Very impressive! I've never seen a manga drawing book this clear and informative. The simple, conversational writing is easy to follow and funny. It's organized well, so flipping through for pertinent information is a breeze. And, of course, the drawing is amazing. This is a must-read for anyone who loves manga and/or wants to draw it. I'm developing a new appreciation for this art.

A wonderful introduction to Manga.......2007-02-21

I was, at best, ignorant in regards to manga and mediocre in regards to drawing. This book improved both these deficiencies with its friendly and informative text, and its clear and step-by-step drawings. I definitely recommend this book as an accessible introduction to the genre and art of manga.

Manga for Dummies.......2007-02-13

I bought this book because of my interest in Manga art but, this book took me beyond drawing. The author, besides being a good artist, is a great teacher. This book is full of information and history. I got this book to learn to draw Manga type art but, I became drawn into the words of the author. You can sense his respect for it's history and his want for the reader to understand all there is to know about Manga. The book is very easy to follow and when (and if) you get to the "How to Draw" part of the book, it takes you through a very easy, step by step process.
I feel this book was a wonderful purchase on my part.

This Manga for Dummies is not just for dummies..........2007-02-12

What I liked best is that this book is that it doesn't just help you to "draw manga" like a "how to draw cats" book (which it does quite well), but it connected me to with the whole manga genre. I got some sense that manga has a really creative and innovative history, starting with Hokusai (which was really news to me, because I always liked his prints and crazy drawings) and extending through some key creative artists I had never heard of who have brought manga to where it is today. This is an inspiration because it gets you thinking about what new could be done that could be really compelling in the future. Another thing I liked was that it gives a good sense of how different story lines and roles get articulated graphically. This Manga for Dummies is not just for dummies...

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AutoCAD LT 2000 for Dummies
Bud E. Smith , and Mark Middlebrook
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Since AutoCAD first stormed the market in the early '80s it has grown to define a whole new way of creating architectural, mechanical, and technical drawings.

Let this guide walk you through the options included in the latest version -- AutoCAD LT 2000. For occasional CAD users and professional designers alike, AutoCAD LT 2000 For Dummies is an indispensable resource. It's equally valuable whether you're providing input on existing files or starting drawings from scratch. Look for helpful sections on...

Identifying new plotting architecture in AutoCAD 2000 and AutoCAD LT 2000
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Sharing and publishing drawings on the Web
Defining key vocabulary in a thoroughly updated glossary of AutoCAD LT terms

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Visio 2000 For Dummies

Visio 2000 for Dummies
Debbie Walkowski
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If you're in the business -- or habit -- of organizing information into flowcharts, tables, and graphs, you're probably familiar with how Visio can make your life infinitely more hassle-free than with other popular graphics software.

Visio 2000 For Dummies is an indispensable tool for using Visio to produce high-quality documents and technical drawings efficiently and creatively. Whether you're a Visio newbie or a self-proclaimed expert, each chapter in the book helps you build a dynamic understanding of the program...

Familiarize yourself with the unique personality of Visio, its terminology, and its basic look and feel.
Incorporate the essential components of Visio into all your drawings, from adding and manipulating text to working with margins, alignment, spacing, and more.
Customize your designs by exploring how to form, enhance, and manipulate shapes.
Work with connectors, pages, layers, and wizards to create drawings.
Investigate advanced techniques, from building templates and styles to storing data and protecting your work from inadvertent changes.
Use your Visio creations with other programs and present them on the Internet.

An exclusive stencil gallery features more than 140 stencils that you can incorporate into your own designs and use to carry your work to a new level of professionalism.

Customer Reviews:

Visio 2000 For Dummies.......2000-06-06

The book is most definitely for 'Dummies'. A very basic and limited overview of the Visio 2000 topic with little detail offered for the reader beyond a brief introduction to the subject. Leaves me looking for my next Visio 2000 book.

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Visio 5 for Dummies
Debbie Walkowski
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Visio Corporation's four Visio products are used as standard equipment in offices and design shops for creating all sorts of graphical representations of information. They're handy for laying out interiors, defining organizational hierarchies, and documenting processes. Visio 5 for Dummies explains all of the key Visio concepts and shows you how to work with this software.

Author Debbie Walkowski begins with a basic overview of simple Visio tools--including stencils, drawings, and some simple techniques for working with both--before quickly showing how to print. This initial coverage will solve many common Visio problems, while later chapters provide considerably more coverage on drawing with lines and shapes, stencil manipulation, text, and connectors.

The author ably explains the power of layers before she demonstrates how to define your own stencils, masters, templates, and styles--effectively showing you how to create a library of personal or business-standard Visio resources that will save you and your colleagues time in the future.

Walkowski focuses her discussion on Visio Standard, which has a user interface shared by the Professional, Technical, and Enterprise editions of the product. (The more specialized versions have additional features but stick to the same basic concepts.) The Professional, Technical, and Enterprise versions receive the author's attention only when differences arise, and she catalogs each version's stencils alongside the Standard shapes in the appendix. --David Wall

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Create snazzy-looking charts and diagrams that get your point across with the powerful and popular Visio drawing and diagramming software. Add a whole new level of sophistication to your business documents (from flowcharts that really flow to terrific technical schematics) with Visio 5 and Visio 5 For Dummies, your fast and friendly guide to making the most of the standard, technical, and professional editions of this handy tool for creating visual aids for all occasions.

Inside Visio 5 For Dummies, you'll discover quick and easy ways to insert Visio illustrations into your Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files in order to boost the impact of your reports and presentations. Use the Visio wizards and SmartShapes to save time and trouble, put the program's stencils to work with an exclusive pictorial index of the most popular stencils, and get the hang of Visio shapes as you customize them to suit the project at hand. Master advanced Visio techniques, such as connecting drawings to databases, and explore all the ways to integrate Visio into your Web pages. Find all this information here, packed inside this indispensable plain-English guide!

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For power users

Good book for beginning CAD students

This book is NOT for beginners OR dummies

Autocad Release 14 for Dummies Quick Reference
Ellen Finkelstein
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Beginning and advanced AutoCAD users (and everybody in between) can reap great benefits from this quick and easy guide to the complex commands of AutoCAD 14. Every command imaginable -- from those for measuring angles and dimensions to those for calculating mass or rotating objects in 3-D space -- is right here between the covers of this smartly-designed and well-organized reference guide! You don't have to memorize all those tricky features or special commands that make AutoCAD one of the most popular computer-design programs on the market. Just open AutoCAD Release 14 For Dummies Quick Reference to the alphabetical listing of the AutoCAD 14 program's extensive commands and find exactly what you're looking for. Can't remember the exact name of each command? No problem. Just scan the pages of program menus and toolbars pictured in the back of the book to find out where those commands are located. Befuddled over words like splines, islands, blips, or NURBS? Peek into the "Techie Talk" glossary and find concise definitions for all of the AutoCAD 14 program's terms and techniques. If you're using AutoCAD Release 14, then AutoCAD Release 14 For Dummies Quick Reference is the indispensable reference book for you.

Customer Reviews:

For power users.......2002-04-26

This is not for Dummies or Beginners. It's a pretty comprehensive list of commands and their use. AutoCAD is too powerful a program to condense down to something this small and have it explain everything on a Beginner's level. I guess I didn't expect it to be for Beginners, and since I'm a power user, that really made me happy with the book. Some of the commands in here aren't very well documented any where else that I have found. I've moved on to the next version of ACAD now, so I'm willing to part with it (see used listings) but I'll be looking for the Dummies book for the next version now.

Good book for beginning CAD students.......2000-04-27

Our architecture instructor advised us of this book to get started in CAD design. Recommend this to new students who wish to dig into the program. Covers fundamental basics to R14 as well as provide a solid foundation to build from. Book does great job of addressing difficult areas such as plotting, layering, and scaling functions.

This book is NOT for beginners OR dummies.......1999-02-09

If you do not have sufficient AutoCAD R14 training beforehand, this book is very difficult to access and/or find information. The book needs more graphic representations which show the results-especially the dimension commands. Finally, the pundits in parenthesis were annoying.

Dibujo Para Dummies/ Drawing for Dummies

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Dibujo Para Dummies/ Drawing for Dummies
Brenda Hoddinott
Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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