Visualizing Muscles: A New Ecorche Approach to Surface Anatomy

by John Cody

Book Overview

As the human body moves, muscles contract and relax, creating subtle changes in body contours and shifting patterns of light and shadow on the skin's surface. Visualizing exactly what happens beneath the skin to cause these changes on the surface is an essential skill for artists, physicians, physical therapists, and body builders-for anyone who needs to understand the body in motion. But how do you teach this skill? Why not paint a live model to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070060426X
• ISBN13: 9780700604265
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for learning muscles

I'm an artist and I needed to see exactly where certain muscles would be in different positions and this book is great for that. You can't always tell where a superficial muscle lies on the human form because there are other muscles underneath them causing more bumps/wrinkes/etc than you'd expect. So this book was a big help and I recommend it to any artist out there wanting to learn muscles!

finaly...

...exactly the surface anatomy reference ive been searching for. as a 3d artist it is essential that i reproduce human figure in an accurate and believable way for this you need effective reference. this book has it in spades.

One of the best Anatomy books for any Artist!

This is easily one of the greatest anatomy for artists books I've found. It covers various landmarks and on the opposite page uses a unique way to visualize the underlying muscle structure of the same pose. A must have book for any Artist!

Art study only ! (not technical reference)

This book is useful for artists such as painters and sculptors trying to accurately represent a muscular male body in different poses (like greek sculptures - Atlas, The Thinker, etc). Every page shows the model in a different position comparing the same pose in the "buff" with and without the painted muscles.

excellent artistic reference

This book is extremely useful for anyone trying to master the interplay of muscle as it affects surface form