Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy

From head to toe, the human form, in all its complexities, is visually simplified to such a degree in this remarkable workbook that even complete beginners will soon be able to draw accurate, well-proportioned faces and figures every time they try. Avoiding complex charts of muscles and bones that are more helpful to doctors than to artists, this books refreshing approach teaches anatomy from a cartoonist/illustrators point of view. For example, there are many large and small muscles in the neck, all rendered in great detail in most anatomy books, but here, master teacher Christopher Hart shows only the four that are visible and need to be drawn. His clear instruction helps readers to visualize and portray shifting body weight in a pose without the need of a model, and instead of showing a mass of facial muscles and bones, he translates them into the simple planes an artist needs to draw a range of expressive faces. Hart simplifies the process in a accessible manual that concentrates on line and forgoes the complexity of color.Library Journal, March 15, 2001 Softcover. English. Watson-Guptill. 2000. ISBN: 9780823024971. 144 pp. Good. Book No: 63759