Can Someone Recommend Books/Tutorials On Drawing?

Hi,
Sorry if this has been asked a zillion times. I'm a typical web dev, who has usually depended on graphic artists for piccies. I'm fairly conversant with PS and InDesign, but I've never really gotten beyond pretty simple tasks in Illustrator. Most of the books I've looked at are either real basic or far too advanced. Obviously one has to learn to break down really complicated things, like a face or whatever into a series of 'paths' but when I look at a tutorial of a really complex illustration I can follow how they got there, but I also realise that I would -never- have been able to break it down on my own to create something similar.
In short, I want to get beyond 'line art' and buttons tracing things to real 'drawings'... things with depth and texture and I don't know how to make that 'leap'.
Any books/tutorials that might help me get  this sort of 'epiphany'?
TIA,
---JC

Thanks. As luck would have it, the Adobe Classroom book was available @ my library... and it is great in some respects: I now realise how many gaps I had in my understanding of how paths work. That 15 minute 'Ah ha!' session was a breakthrough.
I looked @ the Bootcamp book (there is a sample tut on-line from one chapter) and it looks like what I want... It walks you through how he -sees- a design in terms of paths.... and that's -exactly- what I want to learn to do.
---JC

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