Dynamic Figure Drawing
by Burne Hogarth · Burne Hogarth
Hogarth treats the body as interlocking cylindrical masses in deep space, teaching foreshortening and extreme perspective from imagination. Readers finish able to draw figures in dramatic action poses without reference, the approach behind comic and animation art.
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