How to Draw Spacecraft

by Emma Fischel

Book by Ganeri, Anita, Fischel, Emma

32 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 1989

About the author

Emma Fischel grew up in the country, the middle of five children, and had a happy, muddy childhood. She now lives in London and has three nearly grown-up children of her own – two boys and one girl, all very tall, and extremely useful at changing light bulbs she can’t reach. Emma writes both fiction and non-fiction. Her books have been published by Bloomsbury, Usborne, Watts, and others.

Reviews

[Charles H Berlemann Jr · Rating 2 out of 5]

This isn't really a how to book even for children. This is a book about space and how graphic artists do things for space. There is usually a tiny little bubble on how to say draw the space shuttle in a 4 step process that somehow goes from two lines to a completed shuttle instantly. There is a spot that talks about how to use an air compressor and spray paint to make a space ship. Wait what? This is a book for kids? there is about 3 pages on how to make your own comics or comic book using the skills taught in the book...what skills? Most of the sections also had history on the subjects being shown but even that was very superficial to the topic.
I had gotten this out of the hope that my youngest who likes to draw, might have fun messing around would have fun with say a couple of pages on drawing rockets or even finding ways to draw out his own cool space ships or aliens vs astronauts. We both read through this and was severely disappointed. This is immediately going into the give away box.