Figure It Out! Drawing Essential Poses: The Beginner's Guide to the Natural-Looking Figure (Christopher Hart Figure It Out!)

I'm really pleased with this purchase. I've recently decided to tackle figure/life drawing having messed around at other subjects over the years and, frankly, having been hugely intimidated at the challenge of drawing people well. This is not really a life drawing book: as it says, its not going to show you how to do nudes or figures draped in assorted curtains etc. But what it does extremely well, for a tentative figure artist, is get you to do the basics well so that, sooner than you'd think, you are creating faces and figures in realistic and lifelike poses. Which is actually an enormous confidence builder before you maybe then decide to go on to something like formal life drawing. Meantime, people who want to just draw figures, real or imaginary, for say basic illustrative or fashion purposes - or maybe manga too which it also mentions (although the figures are not really manga styled) - this is pretty much ideal. What I especially like is that the drawings are both inspiring to copy but also instructional in areas like getting you to understand posture and how the body naturally falls into this shape or that so that you can then replicate it simply, but well. Not many books I have encountered both illustrate and instruct so well. Great value for money!

Looks good but it's a present

A must have if you enjoy drawing. I plan to use it as reference when drawing.

It was a present for someone, but they said that it was exactly what they wanted.

Wow I bought it for my friend. He was very happy and he said that is very useful.

Great templates for getting right.

Excellent

I have a number of Christopher Hart's books, these make a very useful reference!

全身の簡単な概略から 各パーツの位置、比率 正面・側面、頭部と首のユニットの 関係、背面から見た 筋肉の位置 中心線の流れ、肩と腕の付け根の 関係、重心の位置による脇の下から 大腿の付け根の曲がりの角度 全身を概略的に描いて、ポイントに 成る位置を大きく掴む捉え方 これは、背面から見たポーズでも 同様に示されている。 微妙なポーズでの各パーツの 傾斜の位置の違い。 男女のポーズの違いが豊富な例で 示されている。 座ったポーズもあり、参考になる。 大きな捉え方としては、良い本と 思う。

One thing I know is, I will never be a great artist. But I like to draw and I would like to be better at drawing. This Christopher Hart - Figure It Out! Drawing Essential Poses will help me get better. The book understands that you need basic information about drawing a figure and how to go about doing just that. It is broken down into the following sections; 1. Introduction, 2. Head and Body Basics, 3. Posture, 4. The Must-Know Info, 5. Opposing Forces, 6. Arm and Shoulder Poses (very difficult drawing for me), 7. Leg Poses, 8. Depth, 9. Seated Poses, 10. Exercises. I enjoyed this book so much that I will likely look to order some additional Christopher Hart drawing books.

Don’t be fooled by the price or size, there is hours of great progress making exercises in this book. I’m converted to the Chris Hart school

Estaba indeciso de si comprar este libro o el de proporciones de este mismo autor,pero al final me decidi por este ya que no solo te explica como dar mas realismo a tus poses si no que tambien te explica la construccion de la cabeza y el cuerpo,de una manera mas rapida,pero ahi esta. Muchisimas poses,muchas anotaciones y directrices del autor en diversos puntos importantes de cada pose,formas sencillas,paginas a color... Sin duda alguna un muy buen libro si no el mejor para empezar a dar mas realismo a tus obras si estas empezando.

Simple yet very helpful and insightful for learning to draw the figure from memory. Hart's simplification of the figure into shapes and how the muscles change shape with specific poses is more comprehensive than any other art book in this respect.