Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: 1

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It focuses on the bone structures and muscles that create body shapes throughout various rages of motion. The author also offers instruction and tips for drawing hair that will help you in creating successful portraits.

The book shows multiple times how to take a shape of a person’s pose, make a skeletal figure, and then add the meat and muscles.In this book, Michel Lauricella presents both his artistic and systematic methods for drawing the human body—with drawing techniques from the écorché (showing the musculature underneath the skin) to sketches of models in action. What sets this apart from other anatomy or figure drawing books is its amount of invented drawing poses.

The links below are affiliate links, which means I earn some commission from each purchase, but at no extra cost to you. 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. In more than 1000 illustrations, the human body is shown from a new perspective—from bone structure to musculature, from anatomical detail to the body in motion.The difference is in this book there's more breakdown into the different parts of the body, muscles, bone structure and how the different parts work together. A place for artists from all art-related subs and beyond to come together and discuss art, our lives as artists, discuss art culture, and share advice and techniques.

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.

I draw as often as possible and nothing beats a real life model, but this is a good book for practising and working out where various muscles etc go.