Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Galaxy Books)
by Stephen Rogers Peck
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Author: Stephen Rogers PeckEdition: Paperback
Published: 1982-02-18
ISBN: 0195030958
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Wonderful book for artists to learn anatomy
Summary: 5 Stars
As a teenager, I bought this book to help me draw people better. Learning body and head proportions is key to drawing more realistic-looking people, and this book can help you along. Peck's illustrations show you different ways to look at the human body, sometimes using blocks, spheres, and other objects to represent how a certain muscle group works or looks to help you better understand how it should be drawn. He covers everything from musculoskeletal structure to facial expressions, emotions, and photos of faces from around the world. And for those who like to warm up their skills by sketching people but have no model to use, there are several human model pictures towards the back of the book to help you out. Before I took college courses and had real models to work with, I used these photos to do my many quick pencil or charcoal sketches as a warm-up for drawing. Having this book before those courses definitely helped me draw better and faster than some of the others who were learning to draw people for the first time. I have referenced it several times since then when drawing or painting people to make sure I'm getting the right idea of the muscle structure. I have used other books for learning to draw people that was more step-by-step, but this book has a lot of different detail other books don't have.
And I was surprised to find out it was from the 50's when I looked it up here on Amazon, since it doesn't really appear that way at all.
Summary of Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Galaxy Books)
Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions. The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study of the human form.History Books
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