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For days I've thought about this book arriving. I don't know what has driven me to learn to draw, but now I find it on my "bucket list". I had hoped for a handful of step by step instructions leading to finished sketches, or at least more filled out doodles. I have NO serious aspirations of making great art. I hoped for a one book introduction, nothing more. This book contains two pages on shading. TWO PAGES! And from that point on in each example the last step is "shading". You are told, "now shade" but not shown in a step by step way how to do this. Very frustrating, every single example leads to unfinished unshaded, flat, lifeless doodles... just like I've been making on the back of the phone book for fifty years. As a quick example, instructions for drawing an egg would be 1) draw an oval 2) shade. Entire books are dedicated to shading. Nothing here about about proper pencil technique, smoothing, nothing. What is left untaught in this volume makes it useless as a one stop how to book. I'm not interested enough to buy a second book, or perhaps a third. This may be an interesting beginners book for children. Just remember it largely misses a singularly important aspect of the art.