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Product Description Favorite athletes from sports such as baseball, basketball, football, tennis, skiing, gymnastics and track-and-field are presented here. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, New York Public Library -- Books for the Teen Age. About the Author LEE J. AMES began his career at Walt Disney Studios and taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at Dowling College on Long Island. He directed his own advertising agency and has illustrated over 150 books, ranging from preschool picture books to postgraduate texts. A prolific author of more than 30 Draw 50 books, Lee Ames died at the age of 90 in June 2011. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. This book of 50 athletes will show you a method of drawing the human figure, of searching out the basic simple forms and lightly building one on the other. When these forms add up to a complete figure, drawn very lightly u ot this point, the drawing is finished with firm, dark lines.