[Fafnir]

Heyas
I am trying to find more about anatomy, cause I truly do suck at it...heh
if anyone has some good sites, books etc, I would be very appreciative (perhaps I need a dictionary too)...
thanks

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"I wanna go to bovine university when I grow up!"
-Ralph Wiggum

[Collosimo]

Simply the best book available for artists anatomy would have to be:

Andrew Loomis - Figure Drawing for all it's Worth

available courtesy of the Supreme "Anthony"

www.antsin3d.com/Loomis

other than that, a book that should be available around the world would be:

Dynamic Anatomy by Burne Hogarth

or

Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth

[This message has been edited by Collosimo (edited March 13, 2001).]

[Totally]

woo sweet. My figure drawing instructor recommended purchasing that book, but it's no longer being published.

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[jzero]

My anatomy bibles:

"Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist"
by Stephen Rogers Peck

"Constructive Anatomy"
by George Bridgman

These are reference books of the highest order. And they are both very much in print. Try for 'em at Amazon or your local indie-crushing bookaplex.

The Bridgman book is an especially good value in that it's a Dover 'permanent edition' paperback. Mine must be twenty years old and it looks about five. The Peck book is even better as a human anatomy reference, with painstaking muscle and skeletal drawings. The advantage that both if these over any medical text is that medical books just show you the parts, but the artists' books show you how they MOVE.

/jzero

[philjaeger]

1) I think he most accurate of the anatomy books is "Artistic Anatomy", by Dr. Paul Richer, translated by Robert Beverly Hale, a former lecturer on anatomy at the Art Students League in New York.

2) I enjoyed surfing through the "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist", by Stephen Rogers Peck. It has fully rendered and shaded muscle and bone groups, although the line drawings are lightweight.

3) Burne Hogarth's "Dynamic Figure Drawing" and "Dynamic Figure Anatomy?" are nice especially for comic artists. for initial study i would recommend studying another anatomist, whose drawings aren't as stylized.

4) Loomis has great work, although i've mainly looked at his drawings to study the drawing technique rather than the anatomy.

5) Bridgeman is good. he shows you how to establish mass and centerline.

6) The anatomy book i started off with was "The Human Fgiure" by Davis K. Rubins. that one is still one of my favorites. he very clearly shows the layering of the muscles.

7) "Drawing the Living Fgiure" by Joseph Shepperd is nice. He breaks down the anatomy on his classically done figure drawings.

well...the list keeps going on, so i'll stop here.

Phil

[Bishop_Six]

Figure Drawing for All it's Worth and Constructive Anatomy are both very good.

[Fafnir]

thank you very much
I will not have to scrounge up money and blow it all again! whoo!
thanks again

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"I wanna go to bovine university when I grow up!"
-Ralph Wiggum

[sheriftariq]

I just realized that the Andrew Loomis book is available here in the Plainsboro, New Jersey public library. I found the book a couple of weeks ago, while taking a break from studying from my Computer Science mid-terms. So if any of you guys live around New Jersey, you know where you can get the book

It's kind of remarkable how some of these older books are so much more practical and useful than the newer books (like Hogarth). I have two books by Jack Hamm, both published in the 60s, both highly recommended.