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Fun With a Pencil is in now way an absolute beginner book, it could hardly be considered a beginner book even. It's cheesy as hell but it's a deceptively advanced tome that delves into many esoteric subjects like perspective before the book's complete.

>it stretches out way too much on gooks

That's racist!

>>2840910
No, you're not wrong. Drawing the head and hands is a much better piece for constructing heads, figure drawing for all it's worth is much better for manniekins, etc. But you never know where someone is when they start learning so it's better to recommend them the absolute beginner book that'll give them lots of practice instead of the novice books that might be 2 deep for them. Something like Figure Drawing for All It's worth in particular goes from drawing simple mannequins to very dynamic rendered sketches.

A lot of the art books that get recommended here go from 0 to 60. Stuff like Keys to Drawing and Fun With a Pencil are recommended as much as they are because they take it very slow, and because they focus on building good habits first and foremost, sometimes it's better to roll back to absolute beginner than think you know more than you do and keep your bad habits.