I'm not seeing much disagreement here. Yes, it's typical for a beginner to draw from their (deficient) internal model of whatever they're drawing — a beginner d

I'm not seeing much disagreement here. Yes, it's typical for a beginner to draw from their (deficient) internal model of whatever they're drawing — a beginner drawing a face will typically put the eyes at the top of the head and not in the middle, they'll draw eyes as symmetrical lemon shapes, etc. The book teaches people to go beyond that and actually look at whatever they're drawing, which is an important skill for any visual artist. But it's still a very basic skill. Right now I'm trying to finish an illustration where I've already sketched out everything in detail; the composition is good, the perspective is correct, one of the elements in the drawing is a running person, drawn from imagination, with a good likeness, anatomy, and sense of motion. Still, I struggle A LOT with choosing and simplifying the color scheme and rendering the final drawing in lines that feel spontaneous and alive. I've been drawing since I was a kid and I had a good handle on the things DotRSotB teaches when I was twelve years old. But there's so much more to learn. A good step after DotRSotB might be learning about shape design, gesture drawing and movement from cartoonists, e.g.: http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/02/what-is-drawing.html http://theartcenter.blogspot.se/2010/02/what-is-drawing.html http://animationresources.org/?p=2091 http://animationresources.org/?p=2091