Figure Life Drawing Books - Skill Level Comparison
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- A comparison - in my opinion - on the skill level (beginner, intermediate, or advance) for several of my life drawing/anatomy books.
List of Books in this Video...
Beginner Level Books 00:56
- Christopher Hart - Figure It Out Series - The Beginner's Guide to Drawing People and Human Proportions
- Jeff Mellem - How to Draw People
- Jack Hamm - Drawing the Head and Figure
Late Beginner to Intermediate (to early advanced) Level Books - 3:00
- Gottfried Bammes - Complete Guide to Life Drawing
- Michael Hampton - Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
- Uldis Zarins with Sandis Kondrats - Anatomy for Sculptors
More Intermediate to Early Advanced Level Books - 4:55
- Michel Lauricella - Morpho Books
- Justin Martin - Poses for Artists (ALL LEVELS)
- Andrew Loomis - Drawing the Head and Hands & Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
Great for ALL Levels Beginner to Advanced - 7:15
- Roberto Osti - Basic Human Anatomy
Intermediate to Advanced - 8:19
- Valerie Winslow - Classic Human Anatomy and Classic Human Anatomy in Motion
I am NOT an affiliate for any of the books, products, or people I review/talk about in my videos.
Thank you for including my books in this review, I'm honored to be part of it!
You're very welcome - thank you for the great materials you create!
Great recommendations, And ranking the book according to the Skill Level is very helpful especially to a beginner like me who was confused and didn't know which book to use.
I'm happy it helped - thanks for watching
This is the best overview of figure drawing books I’ve seen, much thanks!
Hampton book is fckin amazing. I think it helps you so much with drawing from imagination later, after using his process!
Im tryna get that book but it’s literally out of stock everywhere 😭 and those resellers online sell it for twice the price
Thank you for this video, lady. I started drawing YEARS ago. I got frustrated, and I quit the hobby. Back then I invested in so many books, and I got overwhelmed because they were not beginner friendly, and there were no video reviews like we do today. I ordered how to draw people thanks to your video.
So happy the video helped - thanks for watching!
Great narration, very nice collection. Thank you!!!
This is exactly the kind of video I needed, thank you very much for this comparison!
thanks! This video was what I was looking for - I was baffled by the vast selections of art books in stores and showing/explaining the contents helped me choose according to my skill level and what I wanted to learn.
Happy it helped - thanks for watching.
Loved this review. You are a breath of fresh air. Thanks so much!
7:14 hope one day I can buy that book 😮😮😮
Very handful video. Exactly what I was searching for. Thx :)
Thank you for sharing about art. I liked the part about learning something new every time we draw.That’s a big part of why I love drawing.Again. Thanks for the tip
Thanks you very much for these books !
I’m glad you made this video! It’s good to know just how complex each book is!
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for this comprehensive video!! i now know where to start~ 💚
You're so welcome!
Thanks so much for the review's!!! Loved the video ❤️
Thanks for watching!
Very helpful recommendations thank you!
Thank you for watching!
Muchas gracias por guiarme en la busqueda de buenos libros para aprender de manera profesional.
What a wonderful list!!! Thank you so much for this!!!
Thanks for watching - happy it's helpful!
Very helpful, thanks
Thank you so much. Your recommendation saved me from a lot of confusion. 😊
Glad I could help!
Thanks for making this
Thank you so much this was extremely helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a very interesting video because this subject, the right instructive book for your current level of skill, is not often discussed in art communities. So great job!
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Thank you, you're a life saver!
I appreciate this video.
Thank you for making this video, very informative
Glad it was helpful!
Immensely helpful. Thank you. Subscribed.
Thanks for watching! Happy it helped.
Thank you for this video. It can be a bit stressful for some(definitely for me) to decide which anatomy books to buy. This helped me decide which books to go for considering my current skill level 😊
I'm happy the video helped - thanks so much for watching.
Wonderful Information, Thank You !!
Glad it was helpful!
This was very helpful :)
Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome selection!
Thanks and thank you for watching.
Really this video so help full for me to improve my art thanks mid life artist
Thank you very much
God bless you and you loved one's
Thankyou so much for this video!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much , now I can decide which one i
Should buy
Happy it helped - thanks for watching.
I find the Loomis Method for the head rather difficult even though people say it's "easy".
Thank you very informative and helpful video
Glad it was helpful!
I’ve got the George Bridgeman books and the two loomis books mentioned in the video I’ve always drawers in my life but hardly from memory I want to draw my own comic so for the last two months I’ve been studying those books making sure im drawing everyday and doing figure and gesture drawing in 20 sec to 2 min to even 5 to 10 min sketches. filling up my study sketchbooks I’ve almost completed my first sketchbook in 2 months I want to fill up 10 sketchbooks of study before I move on to doing my own comics. I want to make sure that I can draw everything. I need to know before moving forward. From the gesture and the figure to anatomy, all points of perspective, proportions and land marks, shading, animals, facial expression, hand gestures basically everything
I would love to have more advanced books and thank you for this video
thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! This was really helpful for me since I bought an anatomy book that was too advanced for me without knowing.
Glad it was helpful!
Very very informative especially for beginers who is looking for simplified art books...
Thank you - Glad you liked it
Thanks very much for your book review. Saw some of those books while browsing on Amazon but with a overwhelming selection, I am unsure which book would be suitable for me. Now that I have seen your video, I have a some idea which book to get next. I am an absolute beginner. How to draw people by Jeff Mellem and Poses for Artist series looks very interesting to me.
Thanks very much for your effort on making this video.
Thanks for watching - happy it helped!
Loved Basic Human Anatomy by Roberto Osti 07:14. Thank You for the video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@midlifeartist6953 Me too! I found Basic Human Anatomy so helpful. Thanks for the video!
Great video, thank you very much 😁😁👏👏
Glad you liked it!
This is very helpful 👌🏼
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This was really helpful
Thank you for watching - happy it's helpful!
very nice video, and very helpful, ive been trying to learn to do figure drawings but dont know to start where, YT vids have alot of diff methods and ways well same as the books but i like to learn from the book more since i can read it
Thanks! - and thanks for watching.
I"m 15 and, I have the Jeff Mellem book. It's helpful, but have a hard time showing the movement and flow of an armature
I have the same anatomy book by Robert Osti, I just wanted to add that he includes so much 'homework' at the end of each chapter, so though it is difficult content, with some time and effort from you, it can be super digestible. For example, after doing the homework for the first 2 chapters you can draw a proportionate person as boxes + draw the basic skeleton in them! Kind of feels like I'm going through art school (with the fraction of the price).
Thanks for adding that - he does really great work. I know he also offers some online courses now too.
Cool review , thanks. 😊 I just finished Gottfried Bammes Anatomy for artist . What would you recommend next ?
thank you
Hello, this skill level comparisson was reallyhelpful, I was mostly using Michael Hampton and Andrew Loomis and I never knew there were easier books so not to be overwhelmed, I was really confused when Loomis put so nuch perspective drawing at the very beginning of his book, and Hampton shows a lot of muscle designs but I wasn't sure how to draw them step by step or what I was supposed to draw or how to use that info in a more stetic drawing.
What can we expect for next book reviews? I also have Burne Hogarth, George Bridgman and Mike Mattesi collections, and Steve Huston book is quite new but really good too, it would be interesting seeing some reviewson those or seeing them on a skill level comparison too.
I hope to do some new videos soon. I haven't purchase any new books in a while but I'm looking into a few.
Thanks so much for making this video! I was wondering how you suggest using books like these to learn the most effectively? I find myself a little scatterbrained when it comes to studying anatomy because I’m never sure if I’m supposed to be reading or drawing, going in order or skipping around. How do you like to use your books to learn?
Thanks for watching. I'm sure everyone is different, but for me I find it helpful to reproduce the drawings and illustrations from books into my own sketchbooks. However there really is no substitute for drawing from life as well.
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Thanks so much!
A few days ago I was able to purchase most of them before bookdepository got shot down, my country doesn't have Amazon and I don't know any book store that has them on my city so I kind of rushed and used my savings before it was too late, so far I'm really enjoying Osti book and I also bought his Dynamic anatomy one. Out of curiosity, you presented Loomis ones after Bammes, Hampton and Zarins because they're more advanced or just because the style is different than previous one (both groups were catalogued as late beginner or intermediate but presented separately so I wasn't sure) I love the entire Loomis collection but I admit he's such a master with so beautiful drawings that they're a bit discouraging for beginners, I started with Fun With a Pencil and Drawing Comics the Marvel way when I started and moved to Hampton as I progressed, but Loomis draws so many figures in perspective in the first few pages that I wasn't even sure what should I do, I still don't know much of perspective to use it like that. By any chance have you ever bought or used pespective books and can give recommendations? the ones I see around all the time are Perspective Made Easy by Ernest Norling, Framed Perspective 1 &2 by Marcos Mateu Mestre and How to Draw by Scott Robertson, I'll try to see if I can some next time I travel abroad but I wanted some opinions.
You've shown good taste in your choice of books, and have a terrific selection, consider adding George Bridgman to you set and you've got all bases covered.
I agree George Bridgman is certainly classic and fantastic stuff!
Can you share how do you study from these books? Are you re-drawing the illustrations or you have other approach?
I draw but I just can’t come up with a pose myself and I need to study anatomy more thanks
Coming up with a pose yourself (and a believable one at that) is a question of building your visual gallery.
The only thing i would change is the Loomis Books. I really think that he is helpful in all levels
I definitely would not disagree with you on that - the Loomis books are fantastic and could definitely be utilized at any level.
What about this book? Richard William - The Animators Survival Kit(Expanded Edition)
Its for animation but there is a part shows drawing anatomy i saw a review about it, i guss its easy and useful
Can you do a review of Roberto Osti's other book Dynamic Human Anatomy, Trying to figure out if it makes sense to make the purchase and not seeing alot of information on that book.
I don't own Roberto Osti's newer book Dynamic Human Anatomy so I can't speak to it - I love his first book and would like to get his 2nd book at some time.
I know open sketch sessions teachers and sketchers who have not change for over 15 -20 years ,yet they talk the art talk.
I was wondering which book is overall better to learn anatomy
Classic Human Anatomy by Valerie Winslow or Basic Human Anatomy by Roberto Osti??
I think it's a bit of a personal choice and it also depends on your level of experience. In my opinion Classic Human Anatomy by Valerie Winslow is the more "difficult" and technical of the 2 books. If you're new to life drawing I think (and again just my opinion) Basic Human Anatomy by Roberto Osti is easier book to start out with.
What about anatomy and form by tomfoxdraws, is it good for beginners?
I don't own any books by Tom Fox - but I may need to add one to my collection soon - his book Anatomy for Artists looks good.
For the absolute beginner, would you consider it helpful to work through more than one basics/fundamentals book?
I like learning from a variety of books as I feel that each book brings it's own things to the table. Having said that, I also think it's important to stick to books that are appropriate for your skill level - otherwise it's easy to get overwhelmed with information you're not ready for.
Why did Anatomy for Sculptors have to be the ONLY one with the backwards spine? WHY?!? I, too, am a collector of figure books. Thanks for the video!
Yes, it does have the backwards spine - I noticed that too.
The basic anatomy one is really not cheap or easy to find.
Buying source ?
I purchase most of my books on Amazon.
I hate how some of these books never go into depth about drawing noses and etc compared to the ribcage/body proportions and etc..
That's very true. It is difficult to find books that cover everything equally.
any face drawing books?
Some of the books have sections on the head/face - but I mostly focus on drawing the full body so I tend to buy books that focus on that as well
@@midlifeartist6953 ok
is it important to study the last anatomy books???
You sound like my cousin
Bridgman
I have excluded Bridgman from my videos only because I don't own any of his books. But I always hear good things about his instruction - I really need to invest a few of his books.
I'm a little surprised and disappointed at some of the things ALL have in common.
For one, they always show you how to draw white people that are in good physical condition. None of them ever give examples or talk about how to draw Asian or black people, how to draw overweight people... It seems that some life drawing classes have nearly only overweight models to choose from, so learning all these muscular structures underneath is not something you're ever going to use... Since it will never be visible? There's so many books on this now.. and so many reviews of them on UA-cam! Seems like you could spend a year just looking at all the different books and still not have them all looked at. Thanks for giving us a look at all these 😊
I agree with you! Diversity is something that is really missing in life drawing books! Part of human anatomy is knowing and understanding 1. How ethnicity effects bone structure. 2. How added weight effects the shape of the human body. It's really too bad that both get nearly completely ignored!
Chris Hart book are the worst and stupid book I have regret owning
I guess advanced would be:
Any book by Bridgman.
Vanderpoel.
Complete Guide to Anatomy - by Bammes ... Seriously advanced, overwhelming, took me by surprised
Dr Paul Richer's Artistic Anatomy, basically a reference, but more advanced than intermediate.
Stephen Rogers Peck's - Atlas of Human Anatomy is Intermediate / Advanced.
Juliette Aristides' books are upper intermediate, advanced. But more 'academic' meaning very long poses sessions.
I do not own or read but strongly suspect any of Robert Beverly Hale's book are strongly in the very advanced category. Same with Ted Seth Jacob's very rare book "Dictionary of the Human Form"
Very advanced is Henry Yan's book. Hardly any text. But wouldn't recommend it. You don't learn anything, it's just a showcase for how advanced he is. He can draw the live human figure very fast on a large sheet of newsprint, on an easel while standing up - the proper way. It's basically a how-very-far still to go, sort of book with example of 5min, 10min large drawings. Reaching that level means a person can be considered "advanced". Like graduation.