How To Draw Geometric Shapes

Via PtB, this site takes aim at one of my least-favorite game-related memorabilia, How to Draw guides.  As the site notes, these books seem targeted to irritate you while teaching you nothing about how to draw: they usually feature 3-5 drawings for each character, in which the artist makes a bunch of geometric shapes, then draws the full character with few, if any, intervening steps.  Although I understand the shapes conceptually, I have yet to see an artist actually use them when drawing something.  I suspect the time would be much better spent showing someone how to make guidelines or something to keep everything proportional, then just doing everything slowly and in small sections. 

Needless to say, I doubt you’ll be able to draw Link after reading this book.  But you will have some unattractive pictures of Zelda characters.