Anatomy for Artists: A Complete Guide to Drawing the Human Body

by Barrington Barber

Anatomy for Artists is a concise, user friendly anatomy book that tackles the specific challenges faced by artists. Acclaimed author Barrington Barber provides clearly annotated diagrams showing the detail of the bone structure, the muscle layers and the surface of each part of the body. Each chapter deals with a different part of the body, making it easy to look up different body areas. There are also sections that deal with how each part of the body moves, showing how artists can use their anatomical knowledge to improve their drawings of the body in movement.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Reference, How To

157 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Barrington Barber originally worked in advertising and television as designer and art director. Then taught at Ealing Art School. Then practiced as a freelance designer, illustrator, painter at Augustine Studios. He was Head of Art at St James’s Independent Schools. Author and illustrator of Fundamentals of Drawing and about 20 other books for Arcturus Publishing. Now paints, draws and writes about art.

Reviews

[kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing drawing tool it really helped me through my art courses

[Belen B · Rating 4 out of 5]

-`. 3.5 stars.

[Deirdre E Siegel · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can never have enough books on the important things in your life,
and when it comes to drawing, Barrington Barber knows his stuff.
Great book thank you, much appreciated. :-)

[Elin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish I've read this book in a later stage of my creative progress. I am not even close to being good enough to use all this, but it is still an interesting read and I will probably pick this up in the future again.