If you could pick only one anatomy/figure drawing book.

[pat@hpnc.com]

If you could pick only one anatomy/figure drawing book to give someone to learn from what would it be?

[Maxine Schacker]

You need more than one. They all teach different things. Hale's "Drawing Lessons from The great Masters," Nicolaides "The Natural Way to Draw," Goldfinger's "Human Anatomy for Artists," "Albinus on Anatomy," bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life." Whoops! I forgot Aristedes books on painting and drawing...they are all valuable.

[pat@hpnc.com]

Sure I have a lot already. But I want to know what each person things is the BEST. The one book the would pick above all others if they HAD to.

[Flake]

It's a silly scenario, but I'll play..

One anatomy book- Peck

One art book- Creative Illustration.

[pat@hpnc.com]

Thanks for playing:)

[kevinwueste]

Figure Drawing: Henry Yan's "Figure DRawing Techniques and Tips" book;
"Life Drawing" by robert Barrett;
Tony Ryder's Figure Drawing book;
Juliet's Aristides' Drawing ATelier book;
The Big Bridgman book

Anatomy:Anatomy for the ARtist - jeno barcsay;
"Anatomy for the Artist" Sarah Simblett;
"Anatomy and Construction of the human Figure" Charles Earl Bradbury;
"Anatomy: A Complete Guide for ARtists" Joseph Sheppard.. all are useful and all do different things !

[SwordOfDivineFire]

Andrew Loomis - Figure Drawing For All It's Worth...

[rattsang]

without a doubt bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life. i know the drawings look pretty crapy at a glance but then thinking behind them is genius, construction and wedging is by far the most important part of figure drawing

[Uli]

Gottfried Bammes: Die Gestalt des Menschen
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Gestalt-Menschen-Gottfried-Bammes/dp/3332016539/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234559011&sr=1-1

This Eastern German classic is amazingly good. The text is hilarious, but the images speak for themselves. Hundreds of anatomic photos and drawings, poses of all kinds of physical types (not just "heroic" but also the fat granny, or leptosomic intellectual), very helpful drawings and stuff, lots of detail like close-up noses from all angles or small bones in the foot. It's like a good anatomy class for artists.
I learned it all from that book, I luckily found it in the library when I was 15.

Lol, I just noticed that someone else was faster: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=119441&highlight=Bammes
Thanks for posting all those scans, aleica!! It's still not available in English

Oh, and he has written a book on animal anatomy too:
Die Gestalt des Tieres

[Mindbendermind]

Yes, someone has asked the "which figure drawing/anatomy one for a desert island" question that I've also been curious about.

I'm following Villppu's Drawing Manual atm but he doesn't go into anatomy until chapter 7 or something and I'm still struggling with my posemaniac gestures.

Seems Bridgman's "Complete guide..." and Loomis "Figure drawing..." keep getting mentioned. Have both, so I guess I'll just have to pick which one of them to start with and - sigh - start doing the hard work. :-)

[Art_Addict]

Ted Seth Jacobs : "A dictionary of human form"

[john_d]

Did Dictionary of Human Form ever get published? I always liked the parts on the ARC site, but was never able to find the book anywhere.

[OmenSpirits]

Atlas of the Human Anatomy for the Artist

Stephen Rogers Peck

[Chris Saksida]

What do you guys think about medical anatomy books? I`m starting to find "artistic anatomy" books lacking in depth; I`m learning a lot more about anatomy on medical books, for example "Color Atlas of Anatomy : A Photographic Study of the Human Body" by japanese author chihiro yokochi, is great! it has lots of color photographs of real dissected bodies of every part and angle and muscle imaginable!; and you can really see how muscles look in real life and how they are interconected between each other.

[Art_Addict]

Did Dictionary of Human Form ever get published? I always liked the parts on the ARC site, but was never able to find the book anywhere.

You can pre-order it through the publisher. It will be released officially I think around now, April - May...

[Elwell]

If you could pick only one anatomy/figure drawing book to give someone to learn from what would it be?
Loomis, FDFAIW.

[OmenSpirits]

The best book really comes down to whatever helps you learn. One book could be better than another, but the best book to have, the only one to have, is the one that helps you learn.

[dose]

Toss-up between Die Gestalt des Menschen by Bammes and Struttura Uomo by Lolli, Zocchetta & Peretti

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Toss-up between Die Gestalt des Menschen by Bammes and Struttura Uomo by Lolli, Zocchetta & Peretti

Where can I find some examples of Struttura Uomo? Its not the first time I heard how great that book is. Couldnt find any pages online..