Drawing for the Absolute & Utter Beginner Based upon the author’s own successful workshops, this book helps new artists create competent, often eloquent drawings. A series of progressive lessons demonstrates such essential skills as creating dimension, adding accuracy, balancing compositional elements, and drawing the human face. Step by step, readers learn how to create a reasonable likeness of an object and give it spatial depth. by Claire Watson Garcia. 160 pages. 250 black & white illustrations.