Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: 1

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In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet--arguably the most popular and, for many, the most challenging parts of the body to draw successfully. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella offers more than 300 original drawings and diagrams. This has a lot of drawings of muscles in action at different angles for different positions of limbs and body parts. It focuses on the bone structures and muscles that create body shapes throughout various rages of motion.

The links below are affiliate links, which means I earn some commission from each purchase, but at no extra cost to you. I have some difficulty with the overall anatomy of the body, but this book is so detailed that I can just open it whenever I'm stuck in a particular body part. Morpho is a rich, fascinating, and helpful book that can go with you everywhere on your sketching journey. The seller states in the listing that they normally post within 5 business days however it was 16 days before this item was posted from the warehouse.This book presents a simplified and practical vision of the fat and skin folds of the human body to help you in your drawing studies, encouraging both accuracy and a rich, diverse representation of the human form. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the head, face, and neck for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It doesn't teach you how to add muscle, but you understand where fat accumulates in the body and how curvatures and certain parts should look.

There is not a lot of text with discussion of attachment points or range of motion or joint descriptions; rather it is full of well executed drawings that allow an artist to understand the structure of the human body AND offer a master class in line drawing.Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying skeletal shapes, followed by the musculature, then skin and fat, and finally, the veins, Lauricella offers multiple approaches--from simple forms to complex renderings--and a plethora of positions and gestures are included to help you improve your drawing skills. This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the human body for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. But if you already have a good foundation on figure drawing and anatomy, the depictions in this book will give a fresh perspective and good alternative to tightly-rendered, hyper-detailed anatomy books.

Morphology" is a term preferred over "anatomy" by Dr Paul Richer, author of New Artistic Anatomy, because he believed the term was more about aesthetics and the form as a whole rather than medicine and its individual details. In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet--arguably the most popular and, to some, the most difficult shapes of the body to draw successfully. This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the head, face, and neck for artists to study and implement in their drawing work.Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying sk In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body.