Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: My Favorite Book on Pencil...

...but then I've been drawing with one since I could pick one up. If you need a step-by-step "how-to" just this side of paint-by-numbers, this is not your book. If you want to be given the techniques to then apply to what =you= want to draw, buy it!This one book takes you from choosing materials and learning to see, through composition and using light and shade (valuable in any media, and cheap and easy to master in this one) to outdoor sketching both rural and urban. The final section on working from memory and imagination is particularly invigorating.