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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Draw, Includes, Lee with the genre: Children's Books, Arts, Music & Photography?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Draw 50 Vehicles'
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Draw 50 Vehicles
  Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1976.
  It may seem strange to ask you to be extra careful when you are drawing what seem to be the easiest first steps, but this is most important because a careless mistake at the beginning may spoil the whole picture at the end. As you sketch out each step, watch the spaces between the lines, as well as the lines, and see that they are the same. After each step, you may want to lighten your work by pressing it with a kneaded eraser (available at art supply stores).
  When you have finished, you may want to redo the final step in India ink with a fine brush or pen. When the ink is dry, use the kneaded eraser to clean off the pencil lines. The eraser will not affect the India ink.
  Here are some suggestions: In the first few steps, even when all seems quite correct, you might do well to hold your work up to a mirror. Sometimes the mirror shows that you've twisted the drawing off to one side without being aware of it. At first you may find it difficult to draw the boxes, triangles, or circles, or to just make the pencil go where you wish. Don't be discouraged. The more you practice, the more you will develop control. Use a compass or a ruler if you wish; professional artists do! The only equipment you'll need will be a medium or soft pencil, paper, the kneaded eraser and, if you wish, a compass, ruler, pen, or brush.
  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.
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conversations.value: Do you know another paragraph?
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conversations.value: 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.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last four paragraphs? Start with the sentence 'This does not mean that the young hand is never to be guided'.
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conversations.value: This does not mean that the young hand is never to be guided. Rather, specific guiding is fundamental. Stey-by-step guiding that produces satisfactory results is valuable even when the means of accomplishment are not fully understood by the student.
  The novice with a musical instrument is frequently taught to play simple melodies as quickly as possible, well before he learns the most elemental scratchings at the surface of music theory. The resultant self-satisfaction, pride in accomplishment, can be a significant means of providing motivation. And all from mimicking an instructor's "Do-as-I-do..."
  Mimicry is prerequisite for developing creativity. We learn the use of tools by mimicry. Then we can use those tools for creativity. To this end I would offer the budding artist the opportunity to memorize or mimic (rotelike, if you wish) the making of "pictures." "Pictures" he has been anxious to be able to draw.
  With this proven, step-by-step method, Lee J. Ames has taught millions how to draw everything from amphibians to automobiles. Now it's your turn! Pick up the pencil, get out some paper, and learn how to draw everything under the sun with the Draw 50 series.