An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists
by W. Ellenberger, H. BAUM, H. DITTRICH

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Author: H. BAUM, H. DITTRICH, W. Ellenberger
Editor: LEWIS S. BROWN
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1956-06-01
ISBN: 0486200825
Number of pages: 151
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Book Review: A Narrow Scope, But The Highest Level Available
Summary: 4 Stars

Here's my review after teaching Animal Anatomy for Artists in universities for eleven years, as well as to concept artists, animators and modelers in game corporations.

These are the most authoritative and beautifully rendered plates available.

But let me list the limitations and irritations:

1) The terms are on separate pages from the plates. It's maddening to go back and forth between pages to find the names!
2) The book will not teach you how to draw. You must learn that from Hultgren and the Cortina Famous Artists' Library and Joe Weatherly & Glenn Vilppu... and if you'll allow me the plug: Yours Truly.
3) The names of bones and muscles are not consistent with modern terms.
4) It's mainly Horse, Lion & Dog, and a few others, some of which are drawn by artists inferior to Ellenberger.

So don't go to this book for variety. Go to it for comprehensive anatomy. It will save you years of dissections.

And - it's the most sensitive pencil rendering I've ever seen. Ellenberger is more subtle in modulating surface changes than M.C. Escher. Or anyone. I've looked at these plates for countless hours with critical eyes and I always end up admiring and even adoring them.

It belongs in every animal artist's library, along with Eliot Goldfinger's book which balances out the shortcomings of Ellenberger. Both books are for the ambitious artist, who will find them worth a hundred times what they cost.

- Marshall Vandruff [...]

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Summary of An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists

Horses, dogs, cats, lions, cattle, deer, etc. Muscles, skeleton, surface features. The basic work. Enlarged edition. 288 illustrations.

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