Learning to Draw People is not a book about how to draw portraits. Rather, it is a book about drawing shapes. It teaches how shapes put together create the human figure. After all, anything, even a system as complex as the human body, can be conveyed through a collection of shapes. Books devoted to drawing portraits usually focus a lot on the technical aspects of anatomy, listing bones, muscles, tendons, and so on, but the author learned to draw people in a different way. She learned it through observation: I draw what I see. And this vision of the art of drawing is what the author wants to pass on to all her students, to all her readers.