Artist and teacher Michel Lauricella simplifies the human body into basic, synthetic shapes and forms, offering insight for artists of all kinds, sparking the imagination and improving one's observational abilities. Rather than going the traditional route of memorizing a repertoire of poses, Lauricella instead stresses learning this small collection of forms, which can then be combined and shap…
Dynamic Human Anatomy picks up where Basic Human Anatomy leaves off and offers artists and art students a deeper understanding of anatomy, including anatomy in motion, and how that essential skill is applied to the creation of fine figurative art. Bibliography : page 346. Index : page 348-352.
This book offers hundreds of illustrations and useful instructions by Hungarian master András Szunyoghy.
This is the most easy-to-use human anatomy guide for artists, explaining the human body in a simple manner. The book contains keys to figuring out construction in a direct, easy-to-follow, and highly visual manner. Art students, 3D sculptors and illustrators alike will find this manual a practical foundation upon which to build their knowledge of anatomy - an essential background for anyone wis…
A comprehensive human anatomy guide for today's 3D artist, offering fundamental, theoretical and practical skills in anatomy and proportion.
"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 and bone structure underneath the skin) to dynamic 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 de…
This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.
A comprehensive resource on the covered figure introduces clothing and drapery as basic shapes before illustrating how the mechanics of physics can cause them to bend, wrinkle and fold in predictable ways, demonstrating how to use key concepts to render clothing in any medium while citing the examples of masters from Raphael to Walt Disney.
This book shows us how to learn to draw the human figure regaining our ability to observe the subject.
The Complete Book of Poses for Artists combines hundreds of photographs and illustrations helping demonstrate how to accurately render the human form in hundreds of realistic poses - the perfect resource for artists of all skill levels.
This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.