The rest of the book is devoted to Head Drawing, Anatomy, Arms, Hands, Legs and Feet. From there he moves onto Landmarks of the body. Not surprising for a book of this nature, it begins with a section on Gesture Drawing, taking you though the essential elements necessary for creating poses that aren’t “stiff” and are dynamic in nature. Using somewhat abstract shapes/designs, Hampton presents an organized method to learning how to design and build the human form. The focus here is on the construction of the human figure and, more importantly, the ability to be able to construct it from your imagination. Recommend for beginner and intermediate artists.Īlthough not strictly an anatomy book, “Figure Drawing: Design and Invention” by Michael Hampton will likely find itself within the same area of your art library.
This is a useful book for artists learning to create and pose their own figures. That said, having an anatomy reference book to go along will be extremely helpful. There's nothing on bones and you won't learn how muscle works, but this isn't an anatomy reference book. One thing that's missing is the mention of figure proportions, like how many heads tall a body, length of an arm, etc. It still covers enough for for anyone to draw a decent head. The book does have head drawing but the focus is on the form rather than the details of the features, although the examples do show the details. Colour-coded and shown very clearly, with rotating views from front to back. I like the part on finding landmarks - bones that are near the skin. They are colour-coded to bring attention those that affect form when the body is in different positions. The muscle groups are visualised very distinctly in the examples. Not only that, Michael Hampton also builds onto to those simplified mannequins with lots of clearly illustrated muscles.
The use of simple geometric shapes as drawing guides are simple to understand. To that aspect, I think it does a very good job. The many illustrated examples are aimed at helping students develop a feel for the form and volume of figures they draw. It doesn't go into contour drawing, shading and expression. The approach covered is primarily concerned with the use of line, development of form, and the simplified design of anatomy.
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