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Author
Publisher
Walter Foster Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mastering the human form for portraiture is one of the most challenging subjects for a beginning artist to learn. Packed with practical instructions, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, this comprehensive, 144-page drawing book is your essential resource for learning to draw the human form and poses with ease. The Art of Figure Drawing for Beginners features instruction for learning how to render the head, body, and extremities using very basic...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This visually striking guide takes a fresh approach to drawing the human body. A combination of innovative photography and drawings, practical life-drawing lessons, and in-depth explorations of the body's surface and underlying structure are used to reveal and celebrate the human form." --
Author
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Faithfully producing and methodically analyzing 100 master drawings-including works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rodin, Goya, and Rembrandt among others-Hale shows how these artists tackled basic problems such as line, light and planes, mass, position and thrust, and anatomy. With detailed analytical captions and diagrams, every lesson is clearly delineated and illustrated. Throughout, also, is commentary that sheds light on the creative process...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Nook Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this book, Michel Lauricella presents both his artistic and systematic methods for drawing the human body-with drawing techniques from the écorché (showing the musculature underneath the skin) to sketches of models in action. In more than 1000 illustrations, the human body is shown from a new perspective-from bone structure to musculature, from anatomical detail to the body in motion. Morpho is a rich, fascinating, and helpful book that can go...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rockport
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Study human anatomy to translate nature into drawings that are both anatomically accurate and artistically beautiful. Essential Human Anatomy for Artists is an anatomy course in a book that’s designed to offer you new tools to help you understand the connections between exterior forms and underlying structures. For artists at every level of experience, Essential Human Anatomy for Artists allows you to learn to work freely and confidently with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rocky Nook
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Morpho: Hands and feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet-arguably the most popular and, for many, the most challenging parts of the body to draw successfully. Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying skeletal shapes, followed by the musculature, then skin and fat, and finally, the veins, Lauricella offers...
Author
Publisher
Promopress
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Human Figure Drawing offers a refreshing perspective on this timeless topic with clear and helpful explanations and around 500 illustrations in b/w and colour. This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure and regain our ability to observe a subject. Being able to capture the human body is a basic requirement for any artist; Human Figure Drawing will help the reader to conquer the fear of making mistakes, in order to face the challenge...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rocky Nook
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In Morpho: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human form. In this book, Lauricella offers a mechanical vision of the body, allowing us to see the important connections between the body's joints and its muscular functions. By reducing joint shapes to very simple forms, such as the pulley and the sphere, and then demonstrating the relationships that muscles have...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy--the study of anatomical variation among different animal species--has been used to make arguments in natural philosophy, reinforce religious dogma, and remind us of our own mortality. This stunningly illustrated compendium traces the intertwined intellectual and artistic histories of comparative anatomy from antiquity to today. Stripped Bare brings together some of the most arresting images ever...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Renowned paleoartist John Gurche brings the traditional techniques of figure drawing and anatomical art to the portrayal of our hominin ancestors. The result is a visual record of the evolving human form that feels alive in a way no scientific illustration could match. While science provides an underpinning to Gurche's art, his work's primary purpose is to forge an aesthetic connection to the hominins that preceded us on Earth, capturing their humanity....
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