Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
by Andrew Loomis · Andrew Loomis
Andrew Loomis's classic 1943 instruction book on drawing the human figure, teaching proportion systems, the mannequin frame, anatomy, foreshortening, and light on form, so that artists can construct convincing figures in any pose from imagination as well as from models.
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