Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists

by Joseph Sheppard

Book Overview

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 Sheppard's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486272796
• ISBN13: 9780486272795
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Quick and easy guide to the basics.

Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artists Easy to use , accessible guide to anatomy for artists. All the basic proportional relationships and ratios for artistically rendering figures. Seperate discussions for hands feet etc. My wife is primarily using this for doll sculpting.

Excellent for students!

If you find Bridgeman a little too loose, Peck not fully clear, and others a little too medically oriented ... this might be the anatomy book for you. I have either bought or borrowed EVERY drawing book there is, and for anatomy this is the best thing out there for me. The companion text - "Drawing The Living Figure" - is also indespensable for the different views of exterior appearance built by the interior structure. Though there is always the possibility they're not your cup of tea, for most students these two are perfect and will teach you everything you need to know about artistic anatomy without costing an arm and a leg.

Wonderful Reference and workboook

If you are interested in drawing the human form this book, in my humble opinion, is not only a wonderful place to start, but also an excellent reference and workbook to practice drawing from. It covers Arm, hand, leg, foot, torso, neck, head, and builds up each part from bone to full surface anatomy from several views and several positions (flexed, relaxed, turned in or out, etc.).The complete figure is covered in the last chapter. A bargin at twice the price!

Very Gooood

First of all you can't beat the price of the figure drawing book. All around its shows examples of the figure, bone structure, and even muscle and vein structure. Some of the drawings are not the best but they are simple and easy to draw and get a feel for the figure.One thing I really like about this book is that is has a great deal of drawing of different mouth poses for differnt emotions it also has differnt types of ears and noses which is really good to refer to if you don't have someone standing in fron of you. It has all of you typical figure drawing stuff like the torso, the head, hands and feet and so on. It has great drawings of bones and the skeleton.I would recomend buying a second book with more body poses and use this more for a reference. But for the price its worth it.

A very detailed view of anatomy, from an atrist

A very usefull, and easy to understand book. The indiviual areas of the body, such as arm, hand, torso, head, etc... are givin there own chapter. Each chapter will start with the drawings of the bones and many diferent views of them, excellent and acurate pictures. Under each example picture is a good amount of information about the picture. After the bones have been explained and drawn, from several angles, the muscles are drawn onto the bones, usually one muscle or muscle group at a time, with the same amount of detail as the bones. Then at then end of each chapter there are drawings of the area of the body complete. This shows the reader/artist what, and how the body looks like it looks with the muscles movement, and the bones they are attached to. There are also exmples of the facial areas, and emotions. Again this is a very usefull, detailed, and informative book for the artist, on how the body works, and how to draw acurate anatomy.