Drawing With Letters and Numbers

by Syd Hoff

Make a c... Draw a train! Make a g... Draw a sheep! Make a 4... Draw a funny face! This book shows you how to draw 70 cartoons. Draw them all! Make up your own!

Genres: Art, Childrens

1 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1993

About the author

Whether you’re seven or seventy, the chances are you’ve probably come in contact with one of his many books (150 plus), or cartoons that have appeared in over 200 magazines in the course of his lifetime, including Laugh it Off which was syndicated for 20 years. His comic strip Tuffy, about a little girl who did funny things, was declared essential for national morale during WWII by William Randolph Hearst.

Syd has worked in diverse genres. He had the distinct honor of working with Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen as a contributor of short fiction writing. He was awarded national advertising commissions for large companies such as Chevrolet, Maxwell House Coffee and others. He had his own TV show (Tales of Hoff on CBS), traveled the world as entertainment on cruise ships and entertained children and teachers in schools and libraries across the country.

Reviews

[Melissa Namba · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice basic book about drawing using letters and numbers as a first step. Might be better if the pictures had something to do with the letters or numbers though...

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

I chose this book as one of my picture books because I love that it allows for students to practice drawing. The concept of the books is that you start with a letter or number and build off of it to create a picture (an animal, a person, a car, etc.) There is no story line or theme but it serves as a book with pictures that has students drawing as well.