| The Nude Figure: A Visual Reference for the Artist |  | Author: Mark Edward Smith
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 92,666
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 8.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0823032329
Dewey Decimal Number: 704.9421
EAN: 9780823032327
ASIN: 0823032329
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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Product Description
For thousands of artists lacking access to figure classes with live models, this portfolio of superbly photographed models provides a life-drawing studio right at home. An extensive compilation of traditional life drawing poses includes female and male figures in standing, seated, reclining, and action poses, each shown gracefully in circular movement, taking in all views: front, three-quarter-front, side, three-quarter back, and back. Each photograph is beautifully composed and lit, providing artists with all the nuances of muscle structure, line, and gesture to inspire fully developed figure drawings and paintings.
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 Great reference for artists! February 6, 2010
Nicola Martina (USA)
This book is a great resource for artists. I personally use it to practice drawing the figure in charcoal. I like this particular book so well because it includes a large variety of poses and has the figure in different sizes--some only an inch or two tall up to the larger size like you see on the cover. I wish the author would come out with another book in color!
 artist reference material January 31, 2010
Constance A. Kuhn
This is such a terrific photo reference. I only wish one light source was used. Then it would be perfect. I am an artist using the book for painting material.
Fantastic inspiration and reference! May 23, 2008
Guacamole (Seattle, WA)
This book has an extraordinary array of poses, in motion and not! The models are all different body types, though all relatively young and fit. Quite a few more women than men.
In response to the other reviews: it's true that this is not the right book to get if you want in-depth, clear musculature. It's more just to look at then to walk you through or teach anything. But the photos are good quality and it's a great reference for a more impressionistic or natural/flowing approach to anatomy, which is just as important for an artist as technical detail!
It takes all types of books for a complete breakfast.. er, complete anatomy reference library, and this is definitely one of my keystones! A great reference, great substitute for life drawing, (as good as possible, since nothing really tops life drawing) and an amazing inspiration to flip through!
Useful tool July 26, 2007
C. T. Hutchinson (Australia)
Although the book is printed on a faily couarse grained paper and the photographs could have had better contrast, I have found the book useful. The poses are sufficiently varied to provide a good cross-section of body movement.
Good Ordinary April 1, 2007
Alouette1 (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book when I saw it in the art store. I like it. The poses are natural and the models, while all WASPs, are of different shapes. I liked that the women were differently shaped-- some more curvacious like J-Lo, others like a Flapper with few curves. Their breasts are differently shaped which definitely helps in learning the figure. There are only a few male models and they could have been better had there been more-- I hate to judge a body as unattractive based on the amount of hair or what-have-they, and as an artist I appreciate the differences and these could be better appreciated had there been more. There was only one pregnant woman in the pregnant section and she is perhaps seven months pregnant-- she is not at the point where she is uncomfortable-pregnant or in the earlier stages-- this book could be greatly improved if Mr. Smith had done more women in different stages of pregnancy and a greater variation of models in general. I do know that when it comes to creating a book that publishers are at the mercy of meeting certain costs with a number of pages, so they try to be useful but original and try to meet several goals. This is all right-- it won't be my favourite book on the nude body, but it's not one that I will give away, either.
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