I Love this book and wish I had studied it during Illustrator CS4 class. Included is a DVD-ROM that contains video tutorials and downloadable art that can be used to follow along with examples enabling readers to fully digest the concepts present by Von Clitschka. While it felt like an insult to learn that I am a tooler, "someone who doesn't neccessarily want to improve her drawing skills", I am thankful to learn successful vector building techniques.

Where do I put an anchor point? Well now I can answer that question, I use The Clock Method (TCM). You ask what is the clock method? "It is a simple way to look at any shape an know precisely where to place your anchor points when building your vector shapes." Using the 12, 3, 6, and 9 points on the face of a clock we are able to easily grasp TCM. Tilting of clock face allows us to analyse shapes that are not angled and not using all four points is used with complex shapes. Practice makes perfect describes how to make TCM "simple".

I have been making is to to work with my anchor handles each time I place a point. Placing the anchors in core shapes and then manipulating the Bezier curves is a much better method. What is  the difference between a PPP and a PPM? Find out what what a master call the "Holy Grail of vector builting. I highly suggest you buy Vector Basic Training:A  Systematic Creative Process for Building Prescision Artwork to find out.