Title: Swanwick's Methods Are Laughable
Product review: "Draw what you see not what you think you see" is the phrase Ronald Swanwick uses when teaching. Unfortunately this flat and relatively dull book goes against that completely. Throughout the book he teaches people how to draw to his particular style - rather than introducing them to the concept of art.The pages are filled with extremely bland pictures which quite frankly could have been drawn by a 2 year old for all the difference it makes.He doesn't use a wide range of colours in the few colour pictures he does. In fact if any of his pictures ever are in colour, beginner artists will be shocked to "learn" that clouds do not have colour in them. They are either white or in very rare cases grey. Overall this is a very poorly written and presented book which has been written by a very bad artist and quite frankly you would be better off spending your money on a book which lets you decide how you want to draw pictures yourself.
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