This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.
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Burne Hogarth’s (1911–1996) remarkable career spanned over 60 years. He wore many hats in the worlds of fine art, art education, and art publishing. He is most famous for his internationally syndicated Sunday newspaper color page feature “Tarzan” (1937–1950) and for his illustrated adaptations of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels Tarzan of the Apes and Jungle Tales of Tarzan. A co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Hogarth remains one of the most influential figures in art education today.
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82 of 85 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Subtlety is certainly not the strong point of this book. If you want realistic figures, look elsewhere like the Barcsay anatomy book. DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING doesn't explore the nuances of quiet poses or the beauty in overweight, underweight, or aged figures.
But if you aspire to draw or paint powerful, idealistic, and expressionistic figures, combine the lessons of this book with drawing from athletic models. If you're into Michelangelo with his use of larger-than-life figures that use exaggerated poses and anatomy to convey strong emotion, you'll like this book.
After practicing the lessons inside the book, you'll be able to spot and draw them better when you draw from a model. Your powerful figures will have more authority to them. And with enough figure drawing under your belt, plus what you've learned from this book, you'll be able to draw figures out of your head in any position you want them in.
The Disney animated feature "Tarzan" was obviously inspired by Burne Hogarth's version of the comic strip "Tarzan." The animators learned many lessons from Hogarth, including foreshortening and dynamic poses and anatomy. I'll bet this book was an important reference to whoever worked on that film.
38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
By skunktrain
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was fortunate to be one the many students of Hogarth when he taught figure drawing in Los Angeles. He was a remarkable teacher, and his drawing style, and teaching style, is certainly "dynamic". All his books are great, but "Dynamic Figure Drawing" is a particular favorite. While you may find Hogarth's comic book roots not to your taste (and you don't want to have your art look too "Hogarth") - don't deprive yourself of his books. He has much to offer, and many details about the figure that are very valuable. My drawing has been forever impacted and improved because of what he taught me - in class and from his books.
Just because you absorb much from his books (and you will) it doesn't follow that you will adopt his "comic book" style as well. Learn from him, and many other artists' works, and consider yourself well-rounded!
Just because you absorb much from his books (and you will) it doesn't follow that you will adopt his "comic book" style as well. Learn from him, and many other artists' works, and consider yourself well-rounded!
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By Siju Thomas
Format:Paperback
This is a must buy book for artists,animators comic book artists,or enthusiasts of figure drawing,who have dreamed of drawing foreshortened human figuresand human figures in action from memory/imagination. This book doesnt contain realistic anatomy,the author uses his own verson of human anatomy toexplain his methods andprinciples,these have to be taken as tools only and not rules. But after you have practised from this book hard enough you will find that your life drawing speed and skill is miles further than when you started,i also recommend the other books by burne hogarth ,dynamic anatomy,drawing dynamic hands, dynamic heads,dynamic light and shade and dynamic wrinkles and drapery.Only one word of caution its very easy to get influenced by burne hogarths work,and your work might start looking like a clone of his.So the key is get inspired not influenced ,keep your own style and use this book to add to that.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very helpful and thorough
This book provides very helpful tips and things to think about when trying to construct figures in motion. I found it to be very thorough and it has very good explanations
Published 2 months ago by Hillary Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful!!!
This is an essencial book for those who wants to aprofundate in the great art of human body drawing.
Amazing images and explanations.
Amazing images and explanations.
Published 3 months ago by Eduardo Matheus Grillo
1.0 out of 5 stars
Eh.
Besides just having a whole bunch of figures having dynamic gestures, it doesn't teach you how to draw the figure, the body properly, not enough! Read more
Published 4 months ago by ILEE
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Book
I've yet to really read through this book, but I'm already a fan. I've never really purchased many art books, or how-to art books, but that's usually because the illustrions in... Read more
Published 5 months ago by H. B.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book!
As a professional artist I am constantly striving to hone my drawing skills in general and my figure drawing skills in particular. Read more
Published 14 months ago by michaelo9
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
I purchased this book around september of last year and it has been a great tool to learn more about figure drawing, the proportions and how to make your figures look dynamic. Read more
Published 15 months ago by gomez
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME
I use this book in my sculpture class for my students to work from. I've had two students win national competitions because of this book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by blackbird.pottery
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing product!
I don't even have to say how amazing is Burne Hogarth 's book. I was a little concerned to buy, or wich one to buy , because i couldn't find at the book stores, so i decided to buy... Read more
Published 24 months ago by sk
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Reference Tool
A figure drawing book that exaggerates some structures in order to teach, featuring superb illustrations of how movement affects the body; there is no pull or relaxing of muscle... Read more
Published on March 25, 2011 by ManicD
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book and the dynamic way the male body is presented
This is the type of dynamic drawings I wanted to see so that I could pose the male body in many different poses and see how the dimensions and the golden rules change with the many... Read more
Published on March 18, 2011 by sivaraj
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