Brenda Hoddinott is a portraitist, graphic designer, and professional illustrator. She has taught both adult education and pre-school art classes and runs an art education Web site.

Introduction.Part I: YOU Can Draw!Chapter 1: Discovering the Joys of Drawing.Chapter 2: Nurturing the Artist within You.Chapter 3: Navigating Your Drawing Journey.Part II: Exercising the Basic Skills.Chapter 4: Seeing as an Artist.Chapter 5: Seeing and Drawing Lines.Chapter 6: Exploring the Third Dimension.Chapter 7: Adding Life with Shading.Chapter 8: Identifying and Rendering Textures.Chapter 9: Investigating Fresh Perspectives.Part III: Time to Start Drawing.Chapter 10: Planning Your Drawings.Chapter 11: Recording Your Life in a Sketchbook.Chapter 12: Drawing on Your Memories.Chapter 13: Setting up to Draw Still Life.Chapter 14: Saving the Joy of Flowers and Trees.Chapter 15: Documenting the World Outside.Chapter 16: Capturing Critters in Drawings.Part IV: Drawing People.Chapter 17: Baby, Look at You Now.Chapter 18: Celebrating Childhood's Innocence.Chapter 19: The Many Faces of Adults.Chapter 20: Enjoying the Lighter Sides of Faces.Part V: The Part of Tens.Chapter 21: Ten Tips, Hints, and Secrets.Chapter 22: Ten Steps to Completing a Drawing.Chapter 23: Ten More Fun Projects.Chapter 24: Ten Tidbits of Artsy Info.Index.