Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

Excelente libro

I really like this book! I ordered it after watching a flip-through on YouTube. I feel like it is one of the few books for figure drawing that one can really start reading and understanding even as a beginner (which I am, so take my review with a grain of salt). It offers a good overview of the things one should consider and how one might want to think about certain subjects. It looks a bit antiquated in some ways, but in a much more charming way than such books often do: I find it very beautiful to look at and fun to explore. If I could only keep 3 books on figure drawing, this one would probably be among them (together with the two books by Roberto Osti).

Un livre pratique et à un prix très raisonnable, des conseils du maître de l'illustration et ses méthodes de construction du corps-humain

Utile per disegnare/scolpire/modellare figure umane per chi vuole cimentarsi con queste discipline senza avere una buonissima conoscenza della struttura del corpo umano. Libro in inglese, un po' datato, ma molto utile.

Anatomy, interesting and retro, every page full of instruction and drawings. How hips and shoulders cooperate in angles, pencil handling in figure sketching. Explaining and drawing necks, the outstretched art of men and women. Nine pages of hand drawings. Bone and muscle prominence in the chest for men. Putting structural principles to work with hips and shoulders. The copyright 1963, its slightly dated with ladies in dresses and men in suits. But Jack Hamm covered a lot of ground and given a lot of tips and tricks!