COMPLETE ANATOMY AND FIGURE DRAWING BOOK
John Raynes

The study of anatomy is very much the bricks and mortar of representing the human form and John Raynes presents a guide that's both thorough and complete as well as fully comprehensible for the artist who has no desire of medical training.

This is pretty much an elegantly written and superbly illustrated explanation of how the human body works, morphing into a guide to how to draw and paint it so that the resulting picture also looks as though it works. Any figure painting by John Raynes carries with it implicit motion - put simply, we feel we're looking at a still from a moving image - and this book will show you why that is.

The book is divided into four sections: the anatomy of skeleton and muscles, the living anatomy of surface form, the basic aspects of figure drawing including dynamics, structure, light shade and movement and finally Drawing Real People where John shows you a variety of views and poses based on life models.

John is an experienced author and brings all of his creative and teaching abilities to this impressive volume.

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