This drawing series implements the “grid” technique to create very realistic, lifelike, and impressive drawings of people and animals that everyone will wow over. Each book contains early chapters encouraging the beginning artist with amazing before-and-after pictures, information on the necessary materials, a review of blending, shading, graphing, and basic shapes, then culminates in a graphing exercise. As they delve deeper into their drawing subjects, the exercises become graph drawings of individual parts of people and animals, before beginning to put these together in full-figure drawings. As the art student becomes more proficient with this method, more complicated scenarios are introduced, such as emotion, movement, positions, complicated features,and other details. After working through these books, the young artist should be able to draw any subject from a photo, with beautiful, lifelike results. Everyone will want them to draw their portrait! - Jess