A master of animal portraiture presents an extensive course in creating lifelike drawings of a host of creatures: great apes, tigers, lions, dogs, bears, horses, crocodiles, snakes, fish, and many others. Subjects include animal musculature, bone structure, psychology, movements, habits, and habitats. Suitable for commercial and fine artists, painters, sculptors, and students. 123 illustrations.
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This review is from: Animal Drawing: Anatomy and Action for Artists (Dover Anatomy for Artists) (Paperback)
Animal Drawing, Anatomy and Action for Artists is not a modern art instruction book with step by step demonstrations. Instead, it's a collection of splendid original drawings by master nature painter Charles R. Knight with tight, well-written short essays on drawing the creatures and using their skeletal and muscular anatomy to give them lifelike, accurate proportions.If I need to draw any animal, bird or reptile, I consult this book first. It's concentrated, very concise, lots of information packed into every drawing and every short essay. Birds, reptiles and amphibians are touched on. Representative examples of every general type of animal are included, although every time I go through it I find myself wishing he'd done about three or four volumes and gone into more different species. Charles R. Knight is the muralist responsible for many of the gorgeous dinosaur and prehistoric life paintings in natural history museums across the country. I first found his paintings at Chicago's Field Museum, but there are more in the Smithsonian and in Toronto and many other museums. His work is brilliant and gorgeous. Some of it has been rendered obsolete by modern dinosaur discoveries, but his mammals extinct and otherwise are still accurate and lifelike. I have been studying this book since my twenties and still not run out of times I need to go back and reference it for cat joints, birds' wings or cow proportions. A must-have for anyone who likes drawing and painting animals, a fun read for anyone who enjoys natural history. When my copy gets battered and starts losing pages, I replace it and pass the ratty one on to a student. I've done this three times and my fourth copy is starting to show wear.
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Charles R. Knight was and still is the best ancient animal artist known.Being legally blind he painted within inches of the canvas giving his work a realistic image-life like.For teaching your children about paleo life there is no better painter.
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I love it, the first opening was surprised with the detail of the illustration that the artist manages the entire anatomy of the animals, breathtaking details of bones, muscles, hair etc.. A book that must be present in the library of any artist, animator, sculptor, modeller etc. I have to buy the other books in this series.
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- Autobiography of an Artist: Selections from the Autobiography of Charles R. Knight by Charles R. Knight in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia by Michael Novacek in Back Matter
- The Alphabet Of The Trees: A Guide To Nature Writing by Christian McEwen in Back Matter
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