Figure Drawing For Dummies by Kensuke Okabayashi (PDF)

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Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive figure.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Your hands-on guide to drawing the human figure and bringing it to lifeWant to draw the human body? This step-by-step guide gives you clear instructions and examples coupled with expert tips that show you how to draw the body in a variety of poses. Whether you’re a professional illustrator, an art student, or a hobbyist, you’ll find the techniques you need to capture the human form.Get a grip on the basics — drawing exercises show you how to work with lines, curves, shapes, light, shadows, and blendingOff to a head start — draw the components of the head, facial features, muscle structure, and hairstylesBuild the body — examine bone structure and shape, create stick figures, depict muscles, and draw the body in motionStrike dynamic and casual poses — from running, jumping, and climbing to sitting, stretching, and moreAccessorize your figures — draw textures, patterns, and folds, and add basic clothing and shoesOpen the book and find:The drawing supplies you needHow to set up your studioThe differences between drawing adults and childrenStep-by-step illustrations and examplesTips for forming facial expressionsAdvanced drawing techniques, including shadingHow to work with composition and perspectiveAdvice on fixing mistakesPlaces to present and archive your work From the Back Cover Your hands-on guide to drawing the human figure and bringing it to lifeWant to draw the human body? This step-by-step guide gives you clear instructions and examples coupled with expert tips that show you how to draw the body in a variety of poses. Whether you’re a professional illustrator, an art student, or a hobbyist, you’ll find the techniques you need to capture the human form.Get a grip on the basics — drawing exercises show you how to work with lines, curves, shapes, light, shadows, and blendingOff to a head start — draw the components of the head, facial features, muscle structure, and hairstylesBuild the body — examine bone structure and shape, create stick figures, depict muscles, and draw the body in motionStrike dynamic and casual poses — from running, jumping, and climbing to sitting, stretching, and moreAccessorize your figures — draw textures, patterns, and folds, and add basic clothing and shoesOpen the book and find:The drawing supplies you needHow to set up your studioThe differences between drawing adults and childrenStep-by-step illustrations and examplesTips for forming facial expressionsAdvanced drawing techniques, including shadingHow to work with composition and perspectiveAdvice on fixing mistakesPlaces to present and archive your work About the Author Kensuke Okabayashi is an award-winning professional artist. His work can be seen in everything from comic books to graphic novels to advertising storyboards. Okabayashi has taught illustration courses at Mercer College of New Jersey. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Great for novice artists. Fun book.

⭐none

⭐yep… so I bought the exact same book to replace it. I haven’t study the book carefully to talk about the techniques but seems like it is a fun book for you to learn the basic principles of figure drawing.

⭐How typical. The art community, as inefficient as expected. A whole chapter on drawing materials – in detail! So overkill. Who cares about prices, sheesh, who’s unable to search prices on line for art material prices themselves? Two or three pages would’ve sufficed, or just a table with websites to look them up on yourself. The anatomy parts, like the one on the human skeleton are woefully short. Many more pages have gone into explain in small detail how you shouldn’t get too used to one brand of pencils. Because the company that makes them could go out of business, and then you might need to find pencils of a different company! Who would’ve thought! That’s going to make you the next rembrandt to know!And much text on lamps, setting up a studio. For pete’s sake. That’s information that isn’t relevant until down the way. People buy the book because they want to learn to draw, not because they’re dying for info on what kind of drawing pads there are, and which one to get (almost anything will do in the beginning anyway). The skeleton is shown from 3 angles, and the 3/4th view is only talked about. Much is just talked about through text. Some chapters are better than others though, but still lack in detail – just not as much as some of the others. For instance, the part on rendering the figure by putting together simpler shapes is far, far, shorter than that on how drawing pads can be expensive, and how it’s bad to use a flat desk! Or how pencils are relatively cheap, duh. What’s explained by author is that it’s not recommended to use square shapes, but instead use angular shapes to represent the body parts. But no details or recommendations on which shapes to use for the what body part, not even which the author favors, and why. How is a beginner supposed to know? Ok, don’t use squares, use angular shapes, but for what, what muscles? Apparently, most of that energy and page estate went into details on what rubbers, pens, lamps, ergonomic chairs, desks etc to use! A fat chapter on that alone. Whereas, just a few pages on each anatomy topic.Also, some things are explained in text, that pretty much demand complementing pictures. Like a list of technical skeleton bone names, and text descriptions on where they’re located on the body, and where they join with other body parts, without picture references!Example (not saying this is accurate) “The femur holds up the body and is slightly angled, and then connects with the ulna”. But where’s the picture reference? Nowhere, what a joke. Drawing is a visual subject.

⭐This book is not a bad book. The author explains that this isn’t an anatomy book. You have teach yourself and it may require some research out of the book, but it has a lot of reference material.

⭐has good informaiton in it

⭐This was a gift and they really enjoyed it

⭐ great book to study about how to draw

⭐It’s an okay sort of book. I originally got it as I want to learn how to draw faces better. I used the authors techniques and ended up going to YouTube and working from tutorials as they made a lot more sense and were more lifelike than the authors. The illustrations are very comic book. Which you would expect as the author is a comic book artist. However it gives you a start that, largely, is achievable. Use this book as a beginning. To be fair I barely used it for more than prompts and achievable examples.

⭐Bought this revised edition of Figure Drawing for Dummies after borrowing it from our local library. It’s a brilliant guide for anyone taking those first steps in anatomical drawing and painting, and a real boon if you are put off by big thick anatomy books full of biological terms and long latin names when really all you want to do is get better at drawing people.Each chapter is chock full of drawing exercises, handy tips and notes to give you inspiration and direction in your work. Even if you’re a fairly accomplished artist, you’ll find this book helps you lose your built-in preconceptions about figure drawing.

⭐This book was extremely useful in helping me to begin to draw figures. Figures are notoriously difficult to do so I wanted a book that would take me through it step by step, this book did it and did it in an interesting way with many techniques demonstrated with drawings that were easy to follow. I would recommend this book to all beginners who wish (like me) to learn to draw well. This is definitely the book to get if you wish to understand figure drawing.

⭐Figure Drawing For Dummies

⭐I suppose, unless one has gone to Art School, most people will find difficulties in drawing figures. This practical book will certainly close the gap. In addition, various drawing techniques and methods of producing modeling are covered. This book contains art tuition that can be used far more extensively than just figure drawing, but the core coverage is tuition to an excellent degree. I am delighted with this book.

⭐Good

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