Drawing and Painting People: The Essential Guide (ISBN 1581809816)

Disappointing:
This book is merely made up of parts from other books. For example, the author took a portion from Ann Kullberg's Capturing soft realism in colored pencil and another from Chris Saper's Painting beautiful skin tones. Alot of the work in the book is from Chris Saper. Those are just some examples, there are a few others as well that are just repeats from other books. Well, I was looking for something different. I guess for those who have not read the other books, may find this book informative.

Good, but Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light by Chris Saper is better!:
This is a good book, but its almost the exact same book (and not as good) as Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor by Chris Saper. Some of the examples in both books are the exact same, but i find the book on Painting skin to explain more things. I would give Drawing and Painting People: The Essentail Guide a rating of 3, and Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor a 5! Sar