| View Larger Image | Basic Figure Drawing Techniques (North Light Basic Painting) | Paperbackby Greg Albert (Editor)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | North Light Books | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 128 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 15, 1994 | | Sales Rank: | 61,771st |
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FEATURES | - ISBN13: 9780891345510
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
Aimed at the beginner, a manual on figure drawing, providing instructions on materials, techniques, working with models, and capturing gestures. Includes examples of work from artists such as Greg Albert and Joseph Sheppard. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 7 reviews)
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Totally cool textbook. by Linda M. Vance (Corpus Christi, TX USA)  5 Stars
October 11, 2009
I am just in my first week of Life Drawing class and so far this textbook has been an excellent tool for learning. The text is easy to read and understand. Great illustrations and instruction. Reasonbaly priced.
spiritbride
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Great beginner book. by Lynn Terese Saller 5 Stars
September 25, 2009
This book is just what I was looking for. A lot of techniques using gesture drawing.
Also includes measuring techniques. I am a beginner and am taking my first class, and this book is a great help.
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Basic, but good by Peter Brogan (East Windsor, NJ USA)  4 Stars
April 26, 2008
I needed this book for a class. It's a very good book for someone new to figure dawing. It has some parts that are a bit redundant, but some sections are very helpful, such as; specific points about drawing human hands and heads.
I wish there had been more of this sort of instruction instead of the huge portion of the book dedicated to gesture drawing and basic forms. In my opinion, these sections could have been greatly reduced.
Overall, this book is worth the price and very helpful for beginners.
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The human body is nothing more than irregular cylinders, cubes and other shapes. by J. C. Solis (Los Angeles, California) 4 Stars
August 14, 2006
I would recommend this book after you have taken a basic drawing class. First you must master the ability to see all around you as basic shapes. After you have completed that task, this book is the next logical step.
From the begininng, this book offers different ways of observing the human body. Nothing much is needed to begin drawing the human body than a pencil and paper, this book will lead the way. However, for those advanced (or really motivated beginners) this book offers a list of other items to purchase.
Each part of the body (except for the feet!) is nicely described in the form of observation and basic shapes. Once you've learned that the human torso is nothing more than a irregularly shaped egg, the rest becomes easy.
J. C.
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Feeling ambivalent about this one, but here's why: ... by Bruce Bain (Englewood, CO United States) 5 Stars
June 29, 2004
I looked over this book very carefully. At first I thought Greg Albert was the author. [I just finished SLAMMING Greg Albert for a different but poorly authored text elsewhere on Amazon!] But looking carefully, the cover states that Greg Albert is only the "editor" of this book, published by NORTH LIGHT. There was something disturbingly familiar about the illustrations which are excellent...and then I realized, that North Light was the same publisher for WALT REED's "THE FIGURE", published in 1976, and that what North Light Publishers have done is invite GREG ALBERT to do a revision and update of WALT REED's "The Figure" with some new illustrations added, and slapping on an entirely new title. Well...okay... This may give me an unpleasant feeling concerning authorship, but I did give Walt Reed's text a FIVE STAR rating on Amazon.com, and this has new illustrations added in. This is an excellent book on beginner drawing, full of Walt Reed's original BLOCK FIGURES and human puppets. NORTH LIGHT PUBLISHERS was wise to update and revise the current text and continue to polish it.
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