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FIRST OF ALL, A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF: I am grateful for Charles Schulz! And Charlie Brown is no stranger to me. I know Charlie Brown! I AM CHARLIE BROWN! Yes, if you ever know someone who can never fly a kite, can never kick a football, can never find love, can never succeed in anything, that is Charlie Brown; THAT IS I! The only thing that makes Charlie Brown 'the Charlie Brownest' is that he ne… Read moreFIRST OF ALL, A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF: I am grateful for Charles Schulz! And Charlie Brown is no stranger to me. I know Charlie Brown! I AM CHARLIE BROWN!
Yes, if you ever know someone who can never fly a kite, can never kick a football, can never find love, can never succeed in anything, that is Charlie Brown; THAT IS I!
The only thing that makes Charlie Brown 'the Charlie Brownest' is that he never stops trying. He is a real warrior.
ABOUT MY REVIEWS: My writing reviews at amazon.com is a practice of fairness; I'd like to return a favor to those who wrote reviews for me to read and consider buying a product (mostly books) from amazon.com. The number of books I actually read is of course far more than what I wrote reviews of. I usually don't write reviews of low-rating books. The reason is two-fold: firstly, my nature is NOT to pay attention to things (and people's behaviors for that matter) that are not worthy. (It is a waste of my valuable time, energy, and brain power, to think and be bothered by them. After all, I have perhaps about 100 years at the most to live and learn; and there are simply so many things I wanted to live and ... learn.) Secondly, I usually give the authors the benefit of the doubt: the fact that I don't like what they wrote, I think, does not always give me a right to trash their work! On the other hand, I sometimes DO give poor ratings to certain books. This happens either when there are contradictions in reviews of the same (low-rating) book by other reviewers. Trust me, this could be very confusing if you are considering buying that book and based heavily on what others think of it; Or, a book will get my 'RIGHTFULLY' poor rating is when it seems to get 'WRONGFULLY' good, even excellent reviews from a handful of folks, for one reason or another. In that case, I feel obliged to write something to give credit where credit is due.
As far as how I write my reviews, 'impulsive' is the key. The reviews I wrote will be very personal. They will reflect the very basic expressions that the human being ME going through when reading the book, namely 'happy', 'excited', 'thrilled', 'bored', etc. Good or not, these opinions are genuine and honest.
Finally, I use this Reviewer Rank 'thingy' as a test to see how others perceive my way of expressing how I feel about the books I read. The ranking is real and honest.
Since you have gone this far (in reading about me), I'd like to thank you for your time. You may expect to see more candid reviews from me.
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Therefore, I could care less about how many cats were drawn in the book. However, this is an excellent book. Why? Because above all the fancy schmanzy of all the beautiful drawings in the book, the artist applies a very important principle when rendering complicated and fuzzy subjects (or scenes): DRAWING THE NEGATIVE SPACE. What does that mean, you ask? OK, here goes.
Remember when you were three, you drew a cat's whiskers with a few pencil strokes, like this >o<. Each whisker is represented by a line. That is drawing LINE, aka drawing POSITIVE space. In this book, however, in order to achieve the likeness and realism of hair (or any fuzzy thing, including grass, hay,… Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Considering there are not many (if any) books discussing brushwork, this book is nice to have. (The last book I read about this subject was published in the 1970s without color prints.) The author starts out with how to buy good brushes, paints, mediums, then moves on to different paint consistency from very thick (good for impasto) to very thinned (with medium, good for wash). Next, the author discusses a handful of ways to pick up paint and apply paint on canvas, as well as mixing them either on palette or right on canvas. Nice pictures are used to show the angle of the brush and some paintings done by the artist, in which the techniques in point are indicated briefly. Throughout the… Read more
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
First of all, I am the person who wrote a review for this book quite a while ago with the review title, "Beginners to expect some learning curve. Great book though!", back on Feb 27, 2001. I also am one of the 'born-artists', as people who know me say so. Drawing comes to me as naturally as the needs (and pleasures) of eating, sleeping, communicating, and mating. (You see my point.) Although I am not making a living being an artist, I have been drawing and (more recently) painting ALL my life. Go figure. About figure drawing, each session comes with pleasure. I have no problems rendering the likeness of a life model (human included), as well as achieving light effects and… Read more
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