Anatomy and Drawing

by Victor Perard

Overview

"It's like having an anatomy book at your fingertips." — Collectors' Corner
This instructive book presents excellent annotated line drawings of anatomical structure for the beginning artist. Explaining the subject in simple terms and with an extensive series of dynamic illustrations, the author identifies parts of the body and demonstrates a wide array of physical activities through his sketches.
Following notes on proportion and drawing, chapters cover the human skeleton, head and neck, torso, arm, hand, leg, foot, and musculature. Numerous illustrations depict various views of these structures, movements of the human figure, as well as changes in the relative proportions of features at different ages.
One of the best books in its field, Anatomy and Drawing helps demystify a complex subject by enabling students to visualize the muscles and bones under the skin, and covers just about everything a beginner needs to know about drawing the human anatomy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486141770
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	02/09/2012
Series:	Dover Art Instruction
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	711,557
File size:	42 MB
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ANATOMY AND DRAWING

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By VICTOR PERARD

Dover Publications, Inc.

Copyright © 2001 Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-486-14177-0

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PREFACE

To express outward form correctly requires a knowledge of the internal structure, that is, of the bones which compose the framework and define its proportions and of the muscles and tendons which direct its action.

Every figure artist finds sooner or later, as he advances in his artistic career, that his work needs strengthening through a well grounded knowledge of anatomy. The great masters of the past realized this and their grasp on the fundamentals of anatomy is reflected not only in their finished works, but in such of their preliminary sketches as are still preserved.

The ability to construct figures correctly from the imagination rather than to depend entirely on models is a distinct aid to the draftsman and to the sculptor. The student of anatomy should therefore test his skill by making memory drawings and by applying his knowledge to compositions of his own fancy.

When working from living models, the artist will find that his knowledge of anatomy will enable him to analyze and interpret the forms before him in a more understanding way than he could without such information. It will develop in him greater powers of observation. An understanding of anatomy is an instrument in the mechanics of Art: a means to be employed to assist but never allowed to dominate. The artist must learn properly to evaluate his anatomical information and to know the part it is to play in the development of his art. The studies he makes will then be done more intelligently and with better draftsmanship as an inevitable result.

VICTOR PERARD

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Table of Contents

This instructive book presents excellent annotated line drawings of anatomical structure for the beginning artist. Explaining the subject in simple terms and with an extensive series of dynamic illustrations, the author identifies parts of the body and demonstrates a wide array of physical activities through his sketches. Following notes on proportion and drawing, chapters cover the human skeleton, head and neck, torso, arm, hand, leg, foot, and musculature. Numerous illustrations depict various views of these structures, movements of the human figure, as well as changes in the relative proportions of features at different ages.
One of the best books in its field, Anatomy and Drawing helps demystify a complex subject by enabling students to visualize the muscles and bones under the skin, and covers just about everything a beginner needs to know about drawing the human anatomy.
Unabridged Dover (2004) republication of the fourth edition as published by Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York, 1955.