>>7603515 (OP)
>>7606751
It can work. I took an art class in community college and we used that book and it helped a lot of people in class improve at their art. For me, personally I didn't get a lot out of it, but the teacher was kind of a spazz so I just stopped going. I would say just do the exercises and you'll probably make some improvements. From there do Perspective Made Easy.
A lot of people avoid this book for a long time because it doesn't start with drawing heads and figures which is where everyone wants to start but it's the most beginner friendly a book could be and getting a good grasp on perspective, especially before you start worrying about anything else, will give you invaluable skill as an artist and let you try to draw more than just "Figure on blank background" since the thing that filters everyone is not being able to draw the background in perspective and it looking like shit. If you can't make yourself do that book first, then do Fun With a Pencil to get some head and figures out of your system before going back to Perspective Made Easy because it's really an important and foundational book. Perspective will teach how large your figures should be and it also helps you figure out how your light and shadow will work so one you get the basics of drawing heads and figures that's really going to be the giant canyon you need to cross before you can level up out of beg and into where you really want to be.
