For millennia, the human body has been celebrated as nature's finest masterpiece. This superb drawing guide helps you unravel its complexity and capture its aesthetic on paper. Packed with instructive illustrations and specially-commissioned photographs of male and female models, Anatomy for the Artist unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today. Through her detailed sketches, acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet shows you how to look inside the human frame to map its muscle groups, skeletal strength, balance, poise, and grace. Selected drawings superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure. Six drawing classes guide you through human anatomy afresh, examining the subtle movements of the face, the complex mechanics of the hand, and the fluid dynamism of the body in motion. With careful step-by-step instruction and insights into how the greatest artists of history understood anatomical form, this book becomes an indispensable resource for any artist seeking to master the human figure and bring authenticity and beauty to their work.
Anatomy for the Artist
Year
2001
Pages
255
Type
Nonfiction
Description
For millennia, the human body has been celebrated as nature's finest masterpiece. This superb drawing guide helps you unravel its complexity and capture its aesthetic on paper. Packed with instructive illustrations and specially-commissioned photographs of male and female models, Anatomy for the Artist unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today. Through her detailed sketches, acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet shows you how to look inside the human frame to map its muscle groups, skeletal strength, balance, poise, and grace. Selected drawings superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure. Six drawing classes guide you through human anatomy afresh, examining the subtle movements of the face, the complex mechanics of the hand, and the fluid dynamism of the body in motion. With careful step-by-step instruction and insights into how the greatest artists of history understood anatomical form, this book becomes an indispensable resource for any artist seeking to master the human figure and bring authenticity and beauty to their work.
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