I'm a studio art major and this is the first anatomy book I've ever bought. I'm in my third year and the closest we got to learning anatomy in classes was a few days of drawing a skeleton. This book is AMAZING and I really feel like my figure drawings and paintings will benefit from understanding the underlying structures better. I looked at many different book options and this seemed to have the best reviews for being overall comprehensive.
There are so many beautiful and informative drawings and examples of different mediums. It says that some of them were amassed from Osti's own sketchbooks over the years and I thoroughly believe it. It seems like it must have taken years to generate them all at such a high level of quality. There are full people, skeletons, and muscles posed in many interesting ways that you can copy or take inspiration from. I think the exercises would be particularly great for digital art-- which I recently did for the first time-- given that you can practice layering with ease. The sections on the head/ skull seem very helpful for portraiture, but I don't think I'll much use the hands/ feet section, since I feel confident in my education in that realm.
Also, I appreciate the exercises a lot as I've been taught the basics of the stereometric method (boxy people, identifying simple plane changes). After the stereometric method, it covers all the bones in the body from many different angles for XX and XY skeletons, the muscles shown in different layers and together, and also has a separate section of color-coded muscles to help differentiate. It individually shows angles of the pelvis, the spine, etc. There are incredibly detailed labeled diagrams giving the names of all the bones and muscles, and explanations of their "origins and insertion." A few pages seem like a little much for my purposes, since I'm not sure that I want to learn the names and functions of every single bone and muscle in the human body, as I'm not an anatomy student, but I'm glad I have the option!
The book has some helpful tips for quickly working out proportions and drawing in general, and I'm sure much more than I've mentioned since I haven't read it all, just skimmed its 300 pages! I really recommend this book. It also isn't too pricy compared to others. I wasn't asked to review or anything, I'm just IN LOVE with the book lol. It's also really great during social distancing since the only models I have access to are my immediate family. There's a section on lighting that's useful for details if you don't have a real person or a photograph in the right pose. I hope I helped you decide if this is what you're looking for!
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Completísimo libro sobre anatomía humana
Reviewed in Spain on May 10, 2023