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Anatomy : A Complete Guide for Artists
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Paperback Dover Anatomy for Artists English
By (author) Joseph Sheppard


In this superb guidebook, a skilled practitioner of figure drawing demonstrates how to achieve mastery of anatomy through careful, knowledgeable articulation of the muscles and bones lying beneath the skin. Joseph Sheppards concise instructions have been carefully integrated with over 250 halftone illustrations and over 180 line drawings to lead artists one step at a time through the techniques required in rendering human anatomy convincingly.
The opening chapter of the book presents the special techniques involved in mastering human proportion.The chapters that follow each deal with a separate part of the body: the arm, hand, leg, foot, torso, head, and neck (with special coverage of facial features and expressions) and the complete figure.
Each of these chapters follows a basic format that combines drawings of the featured body portion from many different angles, coverage of the specific bones and muscles involved, a table of muscle origins and insertions, and coverage of surface anatomy and depictions of the body part in a variety of positions.


Product details

Format Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions 14 x 277 x 13.97mm | 625.96g
Publication date 28 Mar 2003
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
Edition New edition
Edition Statement New edition
Illustrations note 460 illustrations
ISBN10 0486272796
ISBN13 9780486272795
Bestsellers rank 116,166