Learn How to Draw Human Figure by Apollo Baker

Learn How To Draw Human Figure By Apollo Baker 

The human figure, one of the most enduring themes in the visual arts, has been with mankind for a very long time. Right from Stone Age days when stickmen were draWn on cave walls to the Italian Renaissance masters-the likes of Leonardo da Vinci where life-like figures were produced to the artist of the twenty tirst eentury, the human figure has remained an inexhaustible subject for drawing.

Despite the challenges it offers to both professionals and armatures, human figure drawing offers the basic avenue for foundational art training. Artistically, there is a lot to learn from a human figure-line, tone, foreshortening, proportion, composition and others.

Drawing the human figure trains an artist to be keen at observation. It is also the basis for many other art fields such as portraiture, illustration, sculpture and medical illustration.

In this book, students, through easy-to-understand step by step examples, will learn how to deal with the human figure in both colour and non-colour mediums. They will learn how to sketch the figure, capture the pose measure proportion, use line and apply tone as well as other compositional requirements in figure draWing.

The step by step examples will also help a life drawing student learn to draw different human body features such as the eyes, nose, ears, hand, feet and the head. And through illustrative, high quality finished drawings, a life drawing student will no doubt be inspired into a high-class life drawing master.

This is a book every life drawing student who aims at excellence must have.

Other books by the same author recommended for an art student are: Art for Beginners-a book that looks basically at elements and principles of art and how to use them in an artwork, Learn how to Shade Still life and Secrets of Excelling in A-level Art History, Fundamentals of Graphic Art, Learn how to Draw Nature and Learn to Sketch Still life, Historical and Art Appreciation Books One, Two, Three and Four, Studio Technology Form One and Twoo and many other titles.