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Preface | |
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Groundwork | |
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Philosophy and Purpose | |
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Emphasis on Your Learning Process | |
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The Importance of Limiting What Is Taught | |
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Basic Drawing Skills | |
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Emphasis on Still Life | |
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The Illustrations | |
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Organization | |
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Basic Skill | |
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Basic Drawing Exercises | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Sketchbook Exercises | |
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Drawing Critiques | |
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How to Use This Book | |
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Be Positive and Not Overly Self-Critical | |
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Follow All Directions Carefully | |
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Spend a Sufficient Amount of Time on Each Drawing | |
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Learn from Others | |
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Basic Materials | |
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Basic Materials for Chapters 2-6 | |
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Basic Materials for Chapters 7-11 | |
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The Drawing Environment | |
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Work Area | |
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Next Step | |
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Seeing | |
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Drawing the Outlines of Shapes | |
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Focusing on the Visual Relationships of Shapes | |
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Drawing the Rectangle of the Picture Plane | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 1 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Line Quality and Its Importance | |
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Benefits of Not Erasing | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 1 | |
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Patience | |
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Looking Carefully and Drawing Slowly | |
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Looking for Variety in Shapes | |
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Drawing Shapes in Relation to Each Other | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 2 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 3 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Composition and Touching the Edges of the Picture Plane | |
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Improving the Quality of Lines | |
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How to Correct When You Can't Erase | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 2 and 3 | |
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Positive Shapes and Negative Spaces | |
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Focusing in a Different Way | |
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Keep Your Attention on the Negative Spaces | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 4 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Filling the Entire Picture Plane with Shapes | |
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Maintaining a Slow Drawing Pace | |
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The Importance of Seeing Negative Spaces | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 4 | |
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Structure and Texture | |
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Looking Closely at Structure and Texture | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 5 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 6 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Positioning Objects with Composition in Mind | |
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Looking at Lines and How They Function | |
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Maintaining a Slow Pace | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 5 and 6 | |
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Spatial Depth and Texture | |
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Looking Closely to Differentiate Textures and Shapes | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 7 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 8 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Ordering a Detailed Composition | |
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Creating a Variety of Textures with Line | |
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A Shifting Field of Positive and Negative Spatial Relationships | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 7 and 8 | |
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Value | |
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A Personal Approach to the Medium | |
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Development of the Drawing Surface | |
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Materials | |
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Seeing Value Relationships | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 9 | |
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Local Value | |
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From General to Specific | |
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Benefits of Beginning with a Ground | |
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Taking Advantage of the Materials | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 10 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Develop the Drawing in Layers | |
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Be Aware of the Surface of the Drawing | |
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Create a Full Spectrum of Values | |
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Define Edges of Shapes with Care | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 10 | |
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Volume and Depth | |
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Building Complex Value Relationships | |
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Creating Volume with Value | |
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External Light Source and its Affect on form | |
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Value Shifts at the Edges of forms | |
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Value Shifts on the Surface of forms to Describe Texture | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 11 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 12 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Use Charcoal in a Personal and Effective Way | |
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Be Aware of the Drawing Surface | |
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Develop Balance in the Composition | |
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Observe the Complexities in Light and Shadow | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 11 and 12 | |
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Perspective | |
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Creating Perspective Through Observation | |
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The Importance of a Fixed Point of View | |
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Making and Using a Viewfinder | |
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Choosing a Vertical Line to Use as a Reference Point | |
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Value as it Relates to Shadows | |
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Instructions for Beginning the Basic Drawing Exercises | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 13 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 14 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Understanding the Concept of a Fixed Point of View | |
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Vertical Constant and the Skill of Making Comparisons | |
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Using the Edges of Your Paper | |
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Using Value in Shadow Areas | |
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Using Value to Define the Forms of Shapes | |
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The Importance of Drawing What You See | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 14 and 15 | |
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Developing Expression | |
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Luminosity in Drawing | |
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Range of Four Values in Drawing | |
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Black-and-White Drawing | |
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Drawing Surface | |
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Reduced Values | |
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Depiction of Depth with Value | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 15 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 16 | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 17 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Simplify Use of Value | |
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Be Aware of the Drawing Surface | |
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Abstraction and Personal Expression | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercises 15, 16, and 17 | |
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Using Gesture Drawing | |
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Gesture Drawing | |
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Eye-Hand Coordination | |
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Developing Distinct Marks | |
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Basic Drawing Exercise 18 | |
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Refining Your Skills | |
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Working Rapidly | |
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Directional Lines | |
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Drawing Surface | |
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Unique Quality of Marks | |
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Sketchbook Assignment | |
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Drawing Critique | |
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What Are the Objectives? | |
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How Do You Determine If the Objectives Have Been Accomplished? | |
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Discussing Drawings for Exercise 18 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Critiques | |
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Glossary | |
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Suggestions on Further Reading | |
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Index | |