[audiobook] Figure Drawing For Dummies by Kensuke Okabayashi at Arts-Photography

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. My puppy ate the library bookBy Marvin Wilsonyep... so I bought the exact same book to replace it. I havent 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.27 of 29 people found the following review helpful. more on the useless. than the usefulBy star1How typical. The art community. as inefficient as expected. A whole chapter on drawing materials - in detail! So overkill. Who cares about prices. sheesh. whos unable to search prices on line for art material prices themselves? Two or three pages wouldve 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 shouldnt 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 wouldve thought! Thats going to make you the next rembrandt to know!And much text on lamps. setting up a studio. For petes sake. Thats information that isnt relevant until down the way. People buy the book because they want to learn to draw. not because theyre 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 its bad to use a flat desk! Or how pencils are relatively cheap. duh. Whats explained by author is that its 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. dont 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 theyre 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 wheres the picture reference? Nowhere. what a joke. Drawing is a visual subject.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good Beginner and Intermediate book on drawingBy Miild Mannered MickI do know how to draw. but this book added some extra and in more depth to drawing faces. Really like it and will recommend it to starting artist