Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

Good book

Liked.

Michael Hampton has taken all of Andrew Loomis' work and modernized it. This is the best book for anatomy.

Invest in this book if you want to learn human anatomy for art. It covers the what's and why's. The gesture and anatomy is covered in great detail.

Book os good

Very good book for learning anatomy at primary stages... It helped me a lot.... it focus hoe different parts of the body connects together and how different forms fit together in the body...

I have mixed feelings. On one hand I received a hardcover item when the product was supposed to be paperback for the same price, the quality of printing is also good enough unlike what some other reviews said, on another hand, compared to the versions online, the book has some differences. It could be because the edition is different, but at first glance there are some things missing or changed or shortened, which I don't necessarily appreciate because some nice illustrations that would've been useful to learn from are not there. I'm wondering if I should ask for a replacement (which doesn't guarantee getting what I want and might make things worse with me ending up with a worse copy), or just supplement what it lacks from the online versions.

This purchase from Amazon India was very disappointing. It looks like local printers are making cheap copies from a PDF found online, and the result is terrible print quality blurry, unreadable in parts, and not at all worth the price. Paying around ₹5000 for such a poor-quality print is simply not worth it. Out of frustration, I had to reorder the same book from Amazon.com (spending about ₹1000 more), and the difference is huge the original is clear, high-quality, and a pleasure to read. It’s sad to see the hard work of such a great mentor and artist being ripped off like this. I doubt the author even gets paid from these low-quality prints. Amazon India and other big online marketplaces in the country really need to check on this issue. I had already raised a request earlier, but it’s disappointing that this continues. A very poor experience overall. I strongly recommend buying only the official edition, even if it costs more.

Great book, fast cargo. Thank you

Indispensable

Este es uno de LOS MEJORES libros que he tenido en mis manos de Figura Humana. No es tan sencillo para un principiante ya que muchas veces no se detiene a explicar nimiedades pero en general es una síntesis constructiva muy recomendable para cualquier artista que desee tener un conocimiento más amplio del tema con el método del autor que es bastante efectivo. Su aproximación al estudio anatómico difiere de muchos otros libros pues antes de adentrarse en particularidades y detalles trata de explicar conceptos del funcionamiento y la relación que hay entre las partes de la figura humana permitiendo un aprendizaje bastante intuitivo sin necesidad de memorizar tanta información de una sola vez como con otros métodos. Tengo dibujando toda mi vida, he tomado cursos, tenido maestros particulares, leído otros libros pero creo que éste título es un parteaguas en mi aprendizaje y me ha ayudado a incorporar elementos anatómicos correctos en mis trabajos de forma natural y sencilla. El papel y el terminado de las páginas es de excelente calidad, un poco grueso pero vale la pena. Totalmente recomendable, es un libro que se debe tener. Mi única queja es que el papel couche brilla con la luz y resulta en algo incomodo a la hora de estar estudiando.

Compared to the money I have paid for my art school, this is pretty cheap and yet way more valuable. It starts with gestures and everything you need to pay attention to when drawing these. Which is amazing because gestures are a fundamental skill, yet for the most part no one gives complete explanation how to approach them. So it can get frustrating and intimidating and it can lead to developing bad habits that will later translate into mediocre art. On about 25 pages Michael Hampton explains HOW to approach them and WHY to approach them that way. Instantly improved my gestures. Rest of the book is anatomy and it's pretty detailed too. Filled with illustrations showing different muscles, bones and landmarks of human body. Explaining how they interact and how simple volumes translate into body parts. There's a lot of anatomy books out there. The ones I have held in my hands were all pretty boring and underwhelming, until this one. It's well structured, detailed and offers not only direction but also reasoning for it, so you actually understand what you're doing instead of just doing what you're told. Which I believe is a more constructive way of learning.

Absolutely love this book! So much content and is perfect for both beginner and intermediate artists. Even just from the first 30 pages my anatomy and gesture drawing had reached a whole new level. Better yet my order arrived extremely early! Could not recommend enough