These are the ten life drawing books that readers of this site were most interested in in 2010. It's interesting that half of them are older books which have been republished or brought up to date in new editions and the others take a very classical approach to figure drawing. All are useful for the art student or artists who are designing figures for motion picture computer graphics or for video games.
The Art Student's Guide To The Proportions Of The Human Form
- My own republication of Johann Gottfried Schadow's most complete treatise on the proportions of the human body.
Boris Röhrl in his book
History and Bibliography of Artistic Anatomy
makes a mention of Dr. Schadow's work:
"One of the first remarkable German publications of the 19th century was initiated by the director of the Dusseldorf academy, Gottfried Schadow, who edited a folio sized atlas with figures from Albinus in 1830. His atlas on proportions, printed four years later, entitled Policlet, was more successful and was re-printed six times. Copies from this work are still used in modern anatomies."
There is more at my post
History of Artistic Anatomy. Read more about the book at
Figure-Drawings.com
The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form in a hardcover edition, and Figure Drawings in Color and other books at Lulu.com are available at special January discounts of up to 20%.
and Arthur Zaidenberg.
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. Figure Drawing Without a Model is out of print and hard to find but still under copyright. I would like to republish it but don't know how to contact the copyright holders, if anyone knows how to I would like to hear about it.
and another copy
and another copy
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League of New York)
Solid and intact, 3 marks and name on front cover with light wear, Cliff Young "appears" to have signed the last page, money back guarantee!
the 1946 rare BIBLE of the art of drawing nude figures without a live model...."house of little books" publisher in NY....a 48 page large fornat paper back manual with great line drawings with directions from the master...
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