Draw 50 People: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Cavemen, Queens, Aztecs, Vikings, Clowns, Minutemen, and Many More...

Draw 50

by Lee J. Ames, P. Lee Ames, Creig Flessel

Draw 50 People teaches aspiring artists how to draw with ease by following simple, step-by-step instructions. Acclaimed author Lee J. Ames shows you how to draw a wondrous diversity of people from around the world and throughout history. Included here are people from ancient times, like an Egyptian mathematician, a medieval troubadour, and a Roman athlete. But there are also pirates, queens, soldiers from the Civil War and World War II, and many others.

Lee J. Ames’s drawing method has proven successful for children and adults alike over the past thirty years. The twenty-seven books in the Draw 50 series have sold more than 3 million copies and have shown everyone from amateurs to experts how to draw everything from animals to airplanes.

Even the youngest artists can make these ancient and modern men and women look great. It’s easy to draw people when you do it the Draw 50 way.

Genres: Reference, Drawing

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[ピピ · Rating 1 out of 5]

These books infuriate me. Did you get it too, thinking "finally, I can draw people."

Wrong. This book is for people doing caricatures by the park, that wanted a quick 1-2 steps on how to make new outfits.

You won't go in not drawing faces, to drawing them.

This book, is NOT for new artists.

[Victoria Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nostalgic and easy to follow "Draw 50 People: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Cavemen, Queens, Aztecs, Vikings, Clowns, Minutemen, and Many More..." by Lee J. Ames with Creig Flessel might be short on words, but the few pages written for the reader are packed with valuable wisdom about drawing. For a beginner, like me, who's still learning how to form lines into a recognizable shape I appreciated how Ames explained, in the "To the Reader" section, the proper procedure for creating an illustration by executing it with progressive steps.
While reading Steven Saylor's historical mystery novel, "Raiders of the Nile", I became fascinated by the ancient Roman and Egyptian clothing described in the book so I decided to draw "Cleopatra and the Asp" (Egyptian Cobra), and a simplified tunic I'd noticed on "Young Alexander the Great", in my sketch book, and featured in "Draw 50 People...". Slightly more difficult than the examples I followed in "Drawing Step-by-Step" by Gerhard Gollwitzer, I embraced these two pages with enthusiasm. Slowly an interpretation of Cleopatra and the Asp emerged from the six to eight steps presented, and a tunic fit for a Roman youth, like Saylor's main character, Gordianus, emerged.
Even though the book's main focus consisted of historical drawing exercises (i.e., "Neanderthal Woman and Man," "Queen Guinevere," "Aviator of the Early 1930's," etc.,) I also enjoyed seeing the inclusion of multicultural subjects and accurate costume detail. Originally written for children, I found this instructional volume a great motivator for me as well, whether I was planning to work on my own art work or add it to my increasing repertoire of educational instruction.