Figure Drawing: Design and Invention Perfect Author: Visit Amazon's Michael Hampton Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0615272819 | Format: EPUB
Figure Drawing: Design and Invention Perfect Description
- Perfect Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Michael Hampton (August 31, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0615272819
- ISBN-13: 978-0615272818
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
You flip through this book and you think, "This is great!". Great detail on how to draw the general masses, do gestures, great anatomy on the trunk, wonderful figure and anatomical drawings. "This I've got to have!" you think.
And then you start working through the book. This book starts off very promisingly. Excellent explanations on how to sketch the gesture and how to render the masses. Great anatomy of the trunk and of the shoulder girdle.
But then you reach the sections on the limbs, hands and feet. And the book mysteriously collapses. Yes, there's much detail but not nearly enough to work through the sections and become able to draw the arms, legs, hands and feet. Muscles are named but not labelled on diagrams. The arm muscle diagram on page 137 is a travesty. Labels separated from the diagram. Muscles are diagrammed without being labelled.
The author says on page 86, "This chapter is not meant to act as a reference manual for anatomy..." But sadly no references to other anatomy books are forthcoming.
The section on the foot appears to be an (uncredited) derivative of Burne Hogarth's Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and Expanded Edition
It's as if the author ran out of time midway through the book and hurriedly finished it with whatever materials were at hand.
The first part of the book is _great_, though, highly recommended. I hope the second edition will include a rewrite and expansion of the second half so that it will actually be useful.
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