Customer Reviews

Art Students' Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

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Couldn't agree more with the two previous posts about it being better
than most of the $20.00 anatomy books. this cheap book gives you a more
clear and concise view of human anatomy, perfect for beginners, and even
professionals, restated save your money buying fancy anatomy books, i find
it funny how i own majority of the top art anatomy books but yet i have this on my desk, and $400.00 worth of art anatomy books stored in the closet, interesting photos believe it or not this dull black and white 1935 edition with it's simplicity, and thorough lessons, your knowledge of anatomy will improve fast, BELIEVE ME THIS IS A MUST BUY...

This book is a Great value! Beats out most of the $20+ art anatomy books you see. Uses classical plates, photos, as well as well-rendered diagrams.

This book is severely lacking in visual resources. Its images are few, and seem to be from the 50's. The men wear loincloths, where in a anatomy book nowadays there would be full nudity. The examples are not very illustrative. For the artist perhaps looking for that resource to occasionally reference, there are far better books nowadays.

Unless you're doing medical illustration or specializing in highly detailed figure drawing and/or you must invent the figures from scratch constantly,this little anatomy book is the only one you'll need .I've had others and I like this one the best.It's very well done and very clear.The price is right too!
If you're beginning and unsure ,I would start with this, and if you need something else it will become obvious later.Better to have this one first than overspend on something else when you only needed this one.
Have fun with your drawing!

This book shows lots of pictures from skeletons at different angles, to skulls, bones, xrays of placement, muscle groupings in different areas, abs as well as nude bodies in different positions. EXCELLENT resource book.

The skeleton and musculature of male and female figures illustrated in B&W photos and line drawings. Still a good reference, though some details of shading are lost in printing photos.