Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy

✍ Scribed by Christopher Hart

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From head to toe, the human form, in all its complexities, is visually simplified to such a degree in this remarkable workbook that even complete beginners will soon be able to draw accurate, well-proportioned faces and figures every time they try.

Avoiding complex charts of muscles and bones that are more helpful to doctors than to artists, this book’s refreshing approach teaches anatomy from a cartoonist/illustrator’s point of view. For example, there are many large and small muscles in the neck, all rendered in great detail in most anatomy books, but here, master teacher Christopher Hart shows only the four that are visible and need to be drawn. His clear instruction helps readers to visualize and portray shifting body weight in a pose without the need of a model, and instead of showing a mass of facial muscles and bones, he translates them into the simple planes an artist needs to draw a range of expressive faces.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
The Human Head
Drawing the Profile
The Contours of the Face
The Human Skull
Bones that Show Through on the Face
The Human Skull: Profile
Bones that Show Through on the Face: Profile
The Muscles of the Face
The Planes of the Face
The Hills of the Face
The Valleys of the Face
The Shadows of the Face
Hints for Drawing the Head
Head Rotations
Foreshortening and the Head
The Features of the Face
The Eye and Eyebrow
Drawing the Eye in Perspective
Types of Eyebrows
The Nose
Deconstructing the Nose
The Nose from Various Angles
Examples of Other Noses
The Lips
Smiles, and the Shape of the Lips
Men’s Lips
Lip Expressions
The Ear
More Angles of the Ear
Putting It All Together
The Angled Head
Creating Unique Characters
Caricature and Anatomy
The Skeletal Structure
The Bones of the Limbs
The Skeleton: Proportions
The Simplified Skeleton: Self-Checking Proportions
The Skeleton: Back View
The Simplified Skeleton: Side View
Comparative Anatomy: Male and Female Pelvis
Bones that Show Through the Body: Front View
Bones that Show Through the Body: Back View
The Simplified Figure
Planes of the Body
The Features of the Body
The Major Muscles
Knowing Your Muscles
Shadows Created by the Muscles
The Muscles of the Neck
Muscles of the Arm
“The Show-Through” Bones of the Arm
The Forearm
Under the Arm
The Shoulder
The Shoulder Blade (Scapula)
The Moveable Shoulder Blades (Scapulae)
The Back, without Muscles
The Major Muscles of the Back
Filling Out the Muscles of the Back
Surface Muscles of the Back: The Athlete
Surface Anatomy of the Back: The Average Person
The Chest and Rib Cage
Thin Subjects
The Major Muscles of the Leg: Front View
The Major Muscles of the Leg: Side View
The Major Muscles of the Leg: Back View
Lines of Compression
The Knee
Drawing the Knee, Variations
The Hand
The Back of the Hand
More Hints for Hands
Female Hands
The Feet
The Dynamics of the Body
Asymmetry
Asymmetry of the Upper Arm
Asymmetry of the Triceps
Asymmetry of the Forearm
Asymmetry of the Knee and Calf
Asymmetry of the Ankle Bones
Muscles: Stretching and Flexing
Diminution
Foreshortening
Foreshortening and Elimination
Shifting Weight and Balance
Why Does the Hip Sag?
The Weight-Bearing Leg
Measuring Points for Weight-Bearing Poses
The Misleading Knee
Drawing from a Model: The Use of Measuring Points
Negative Space
Walking
Flowing Poses and the Line of Action
Finding Multiple Lines of Action
Using Two Lines of Action in the Same Pose
Half Lines of Action
The Point of Balance
Perspective of the Body
The Effects of Perspective on the Body
Practice Poses
Seated Pose: Front View
Standing Pose: Back View
Reclining Pose: Front View
Reclining Pose: Side View
Reclining Pose: Back View
Index