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Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offers readers exercises to improve their work.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing book for an amazing price.......2007-09-20
I bought this book for my drawing class, then I realized this book is my drawing class! The book is the most amazing art how to book I've ever read. Reading it is like having your own one on one lesson with a master artist. Not only is it a great tool but it is so reasonably priced that I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to draw!
will keep you busy.......2007-09-09
this has tons of useful exercises for drawing, in case the figure drawing ever gets boring. It does have many exercises for beginners but also nice to revisit for professionals too. excellent book.
This book is what I need .......2007-07-23
for planning my next sketch. This book is a guide to making better drawings and to get inspired.
Great for study.......2007-07-15
Has been helpful to me in my art studies but need more time to devote to it.
One of those Baby Boomer's Getting Back to Art in Aiken a town of Artists.......2007-05-21
If you have worked your whole life or been a stay at home mother, never getting the opportunity to go to Art School....here is your book. This book shows you the correct way to observe and draw using all your senses...not just your eyes...You will be instructed chapter by chapter and then at each end be given your exercises to complete in your own time...but it is the "practice, practice, practice" that takes you through the paces of one of the best how- to books on drawing and seeing art you will ever read. This book verifies exactly what I am doing with life drawings in Augusta at a studio.....the fast gesture drawings...the concepts....and styles will loosen you up to start to feel the drawing rather than tightening up and being restrictive.....This is not an overnight how to book......but it will guide you through instruction as you might have had at an Art School.....I can't recommend this enough....As an Aiken Artist back to the craft she loves.....I am using this book and it is swiftly moving me along the road back to a comfort of drawing you will use in all your mediums of art....Buy it...you won't be sorry...Carolyn's by Design of Aiken Art Guild
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The best book available about drawing!.......2002-10-13
This book was given to me by a friend around 1961 when I was starting out my art studies...it was so inspiring I followed its excercises about gesture and contour drawing, and ignored my regular art school classes!. The great thing about this book is that it teaches you to SEE with the eye while simultaneously DRAWING with the hand. The excercises both free your vision and give you the necessary discipline to draw without forcing you to adopt any particular style or technique. Good luck!
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This insider's handbook full of "how to" color photos on the secrets of becoming a model. Not just on hair and make up, but practical information and realistic strategies for presenting yourself at interviews, handling your finances, health and nutrition, modeling opportunities, working abroad, and how to promote yourself. Everything you need to know to succeed.
Customer Reviews:
LOTS OF USEFUL INFORMATION HERE!!!.......2003-05-10
This book is quite useful for anyone who knows very little about the modeling industry, and wants to know exactly what to expect if they decide to persue modeling, as either a hobby or a career. This book is extremely thorough, answering any questions you may have about the modeling industry. It even gives names and addresses of popular modeling agencies around the world!!! The make-up tips were somewhat useful, as well. After reading this book, I had the confidence to send my portfolio to a local agency. I have been in 5 print advertising ads and 2 television commercials here in Detroit. I am so greatful I read this book!!!
Read This Book!.......2000-09-05
My wife and I have been in the modeling business for over 15 years and have started thousdands of models and actors. Marie's book is one that we suggest to all our aspiring talent. It is a great overview of the industry!
Except for Nikki Taylor, who's heard of anybody in this book.......1999-10-18
I guess everybody's an expert, but I found the hair and make-up techniques recommended in this book silly and outdated. Models today wear no make-up (maybe moisturizer or lip balm)to castings unless they're coming directly from a booking. Ditto for hair-'do's. The book could have addressed skin care and healthy lifestyle for today's young people rather than touting superficial strategies from the 'experts'. Do you want to know how to become a model or how to get a date?
A MUST-HAVE for anyone who wants to model!!!.......1996-10-15
I've met Marie Anderson Boyd and listened to her speak at a model search. When I got back home from the search, I checked her book out at the library. I learned soooooo much from that book. If you're going to get into modeling, then this book is a MUST HAVE!! You will learn so much that you won't know what to do with all the information. Everything from how to get an agency to represent you to diet and exercise tips. It's not a dry read either, I COULD NOT put it down; very interesting and at times humorous too
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Red Women on the Silver Screen: Soviet Women and Cinema from the Beginning to the End of the Communist Era
Lynne Attwood , and
Maya Turovskaya
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Looking for a way to improve your playing? Stuck in a rut with your practice routine? Here's an excellent way to get a whole new perspective and improve your musicianship too! Crosstraining in percussion means applying the rhythms and techniques, stickings and phrasing that you're already familiar with to new instruments you wish to learn. If you are a drummer who wants to learn to solo, what better way than to be able to play the song itself, melodically, on another instrument that's played with your drummer's muscles? And you mallet players out there can play more concise, rhythmically accurate solos, if you can employ the precision required to play Funk, Rudimental, or Fusion drums! Crosstraining enables the multi-faceted percussionist develop his/her skills by applying a specific rhythm or technique, one at a time, to all the instruments in their collection. The book includes 2 CDs of material to learn from and practice with.
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Harder Wednesday Sudoku
Frank Longo
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ASIN: 1402744269 |
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Subsets (Pairs, Triples, and higher) and Interaction make this harder still!
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"Thanks to online communication," say David and Thomas Gardner, founders of the Motley Fool investment Web site, "it is now little-guy investors, not huge-guy brokerage firms, who hold the most valuable cards." The Gardners, narrating their own Guide, lay out their Foolish market-beating techniques like the college economics instructors you wish you'd had. They explain, in everyday language (and with just the right touch of sarcasm), exactly why some people do better than others when they invest their money. Most important, they tell how you can be one of the few who do better. (Running time: 1.5 hours, one cassette) --Lou Schuler
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For Making Sense of Investing Today...the Fully Revised and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling The Motley Fool Investment Guide
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For the millions eager to make sense of today's world of investing comes a completely updated edition of the Motley Fool's bestselling guide. Includes a new Foreword by the authors and information on non-traditional business models, the 50 best companies worldwide, new ways to capitalize on fast growth industries, and investing in the U.S. from abroad.
Customer Reviews:
Their stock picking strategy to think about............2007-10-03
This is a well-written, easy to follow, and a solid book for people who attain a basic knowledge about mutual funds and stocks. This book is a must read for people who are interested in learning, exploring and testing stock picking techniques. The book offers a useful eight-item checklist that investors and speculators most follow when choosing the best small cap growth stocks. Also offers the pertient ratios from balance sheet,income statement, and cash flow that investors need to pay careful attention to when picking the right small cap stocks.
Although this book is generally good, there is one chapter on dow investment technique that people should be wary and skeptical about. The brothers give false hope to investors that anybody is guaranteed a 25.5% annual growth return for 20 years if they buy 2 of the second lowest and 1 of third,fourth, and fifith lowest price from 30 dow stocks or called foolish 2-2-3-4-5 approach. This might be true in the past 20 years but due to our unstable and unforeseeable economy in the future, a stock return of 25.5 % for 20 years is highly unlikely to happen. A likely situation we can experience is witnessing another stock market crash or seeing a rise of inflation 4 % every year making 25.5% return look a dismal 14%. The only aspect on their approach to Dow investment that I agree with is their claim about the safeness of dow stocks. Nobody can argue this claim since Dow stocks consist of 30 well-established companies which have been in business for a century and it would be hard picturing them filing bankruptcy.
Fool Some of the People All of the Time.......2007-08-09
The Motley Fools, for a novice investor, can be a life changing experience. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" and their savvy insights regarding investments have served me well. Their stock market insights are delivered with wit and wisdom, and I was actually sad when I turned the last page and realized I had finished the book. That's my personal criteria for a well written book, does it leave you wanting more. The Fools deliver.
Book.......2007-05-13
Took the full 10 days to get here, after the 3 days until it shipped. But the condition of the book is excellent since it was a used book. And can't beat the price. Better than taking notes of the contents in Borders.
Motrley Fool Investment Guide.......2006-06-25
Good primer for the beginner stock trader. Also an excellent review for those who have "been around"
The Best Investment Book For Beginners- seems too good to be true, but it is RIGHT!.......2006-02-19
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It's so simple; it does seem too good to be true; but it is all correct! I hoped to beat the market by 1-2 %, and to beat pro's by 3-4% (since they do underperform the market 90% of the time!).
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I have bought this book for other friends, and recommended it to many, many more.
Basically, it teaches you to only buy very, very safe companies that are small enough to increase substantially in value (as more and more analysts start to cover their financials). It works.
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Whether you are a seasoned investor or a novice, The Motley Fool Investment Guide will help you choose smart investments that are tailored specifically for your individual needs. With their trademark humor, authors David Gardner and Tom Gardner will show you how to break the rules in investing---without ending up broke. This is a completely Revised and Expanded Edition!
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