recommend book

[Shane J]

Hello all,
Can anyone recommend and GOOD book that will help me with drawing the human body..
How to measure, what to look for ( the 3 eye )..etec.
I understand that anatomy is the key to an artist understanding and interpretation of the human body
but I fell that most of the books I have, are ether just an excuse for the author to show of their skill
or its full of information ( nervous system ) that is not important to the guy who wants to learn how to draw the human body and face

Thanks. :bashful: :bashful: :bashful:

[jester]

Don't expect "one" book to be enough. Try different approaches. Good and easy starting points are:

http://www.fineart.sk/
and
http://www.saveloomis.org/

Also search for Bridgeman and Bammes (though both are not friends easily won).

Jester

[gekitsu]

i agree with jester. there is no one book that covers all and everything in a convenient matter.

loomis for example is great to just get a basic human-looking figure down in no time.
bammes goes a good bit more in depth with muscle definitions and all that - but tells you almost zero about dynamic posing etcetera - which is where your loomis knowledge comes in handy.

you can go on and on - and have a whole list of books from super-easy (loomis) over specialized pamphlets (like bridgmans "drawing the draped figure"), what i call "hybrid books" that are clearly aimed at artists but come with a solid anatomical base (like bammes)... until you reach completely medical books ("color atlas of human anatomy" by rohen) for raw information about every muscle in the human body.

its just as with learning to draw houses: you need to learn basic perspective, what houses in general look like, photobooks about cottages all over the world... maybe even books touching subjects like masonry if you intend to draw accurate house closeups often. ;)

[Shane J]

Thx For The Reply Guys,,
I Have Just Got A Book Called Drawing From The Right Side Of The Brain...

[Storyboard Dave]

Get as many anatomy books as you possibly can. From Loomis to Bridgman to even lighter books like How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Learn the basic proportions from them and then apply them to drawing a real model. Nothing can substitute drawing from a real person. And once you've gained a little bit of mastery over drawing the figure then you can start cheating some of the proportions to your own diabolical needs.

If you don't understand the rules & the language of how the human form works, then you're just cheating and to everyone else around you that knows the rules, your stuff is going to be weak.

[insane visions]

totally off the topic, but odd thomas by dean koontz is a good read...