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Hailed by teachers, students, and critics for fifty years, this manual presents both action studies and practical diagrams for portraying the human figure in motion and at rest. Anatomical details appear in pragmatic, generalized shapes that simplify identification and reproduction. More than 300 images complement the easy-to-follow text, which includes a valuable survey of art history and magnificent figure drawings by such masters as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rodin, and Picasso. Burne show more Hogarth, called "the Michelangelo of the comic strip," is best known for his long-running Tarzan cartoons and for helping found New York's School of Visual Arts. In this study of the human figure, he explains muscular and skeletal structure from the artist's point of view, rather than that of the medical anatomist. Hogarth extends beyond the factual elements of anatomy to emphasize the relationship of mass to movement. His guide will prove an indispensable companion to artists at all skill levels who wish to render the human figure accurately and artistically. show lessTags
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This is an incredible resource for artists, especially illustrators and drawers. There is a full range of angles and views provided; anything you're looking for help with, you'll find. Not only is there an abundance of images to reference (some even listing the names of each individual muscle) but there are guides that actually teach you the way to draw body forms 'from scratch'. The quality of my drawing significantly improved once I started referencing this book, and I've used it extensively -- both for art and for my anatomy class!
99% of the time, when the wannabe artist,comic book illustrator or similar art geek asks 'what book should I get" this book, or Hogarths Dynamic Figure Drawing, will be one of the top 5 mentioned. Nothing less than a landmark in art education, Dynamic Anatomy it an essential comanion piece to Dynamic figure drawing and any of Hogarth's other works. Another 'buy before food' artists book.
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The great comic strip artist Burne Hogarth was born in New York in 1911. Best known as the illustrator of the long-running Tarzan comics, Hogarth was honored as the "Michelangelo of the comics" by the Society for the Study of the Comic Strip in France. Hogarth began drawing Tarzan in 1937, basing the strip on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Many show more of the strips were published in 1977 under the title The Golden Age of Tarzan, 1939-42. In 1950, Hogarth retired Tarzan and spent the next seventeen years teaching. He helped found a number of art schools, including the School of Visual Arts and the Parsons School of Design, both in New York City. He published several instructional texts, including Dynamic Anatomy, Drawing the Human Head, and Dynamic Figure Drawing, and a sketchbook, Arcane Eye of Hogarth, in 1992. Hogarth died of a heart attack in Paris in 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dynamic Anatomy
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- 1958
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