{PRETITLE} Classic Human Anatomy: The Artist's Guide to Form, Function, and Movement {POSTTITLE}

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Author: Valerie L. Winslow
ISBN : 0823024156
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After more than thirty years of research and teaching, artist Valerie Winslow has compiled her unique methods of drawing human anatomy into one groundbreaking volume: Classic Human Anatomy. This long-awaited book provides simple, insightful approaches to the complex subject of human anatomy, using drawings, diagrams, and reader-friendly text. Three major sections–the skeletal form, the muscular form and action of the muscles, and movement–break the material down into easy-to-understand pieces. More than 800 distinctive illustrations detail the movement and actions of the bones and muscles, and unique charts reveal the origins and insertions of the muscles. Packed with an extraordinary wealth of information, Classic Human Anatomy is sure to become a new classic of art instruction.

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• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill (December 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823024156
• ISBN-13: 978-0823024155
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 9.2 x 11.1 inches
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Classic Human Anatomy: The Artist's Guide to Form, Function, and Movement is a anatomy reference book for artists. The bodies, muscles and skeletons are well illustrated and explained. The different layers of muscles are shown individually as well as a whole. Where the muscles are attached to the bones (even those hidden) are shown. The illustrated examples are plentiful and comprehensive.

The writeup is well researched and written clearly. It has all the technical speak, including pronunciation, but still easy to understand when read. Every anatomy part and every muscle shown is explained in terms of functionality.

There are some drawing tips but not as much compared to dedicated instructional anatomy books. For example, it doesn't teach much on drawing twisting torsos. As such, this will be a great companion to other instructional anatomy books, especially so for those that focus on poses and have less details on the underlying human form.

Overall, this is a highly recommended anatomy reference book, for beginner to advanced artists. For the price, I think it's really worth the money.

(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

By Parka
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I have SO many anatomy books. Each one lacking in one or more areas. As an artist, you buy a lot of them and take what you can from each.

The older ones are written in such a way that you spend half your time trying to translate what they meant. There is some stupid disease that infects artists. When they write books they immediately write in what they think is super sophisticated language, making it almost impossible to understand what they are trying to say. This is not one of those types of books. AND! The knowledge passed on to the reader puts 99% of the other anatomy books to shame. Saying that it is thorough is an understatement. The illustrations are well explained and superbly rendered.
The explanations of bones, joints, muscles, what they do, how they fit and react is unbelievable!

This is the ONLY artist anatomy book you will ever need. If I could give it ten stars I would because it would be justified.

By J. Dadlez