The Female Nude I: A Pose Book For Artists Review

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(More customer reviews)All of the photos are black and white. Several are out of focus or suffer some motion blurring where either the model or photographer moved. Edges are poorly defined, the model often fades into the background on the edges. Detail is lacking, for example, it is impossible to distinguish the iris from the pupil in the eye. The lighting can sometimes be poor- throwing important features into deep shadow.
There's only one model. And, while she is a good choice for a representative of the female form, the photography and printing do not do her justice. Generally, all you get are basic shapes and outlines- made me think of stick figures or those basic shapes people sketch before adding details to a figure. An exception to this is the small handful of photos toward the end with close-ups of face and shoulder detail. Those are quite nice but there are not enough.
On the positive side the book has many different poses, so it has a good variety of poses.
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Art Models Life Nudes- definitely the best model book I've seen. Search for 0976457334. Multiple models, color printing, better lighting and photography and a disk with all the photos. Each pose is shot from multiple angles. The photos on disk are big and clear and you can print any one you want as big as you want.

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Over 150 full page, high quality figure pose photographs carefully lighted for use as drawing and painting reference.Designed for students interested not merely in drawing figures accurately, but in ideal figures as they are described in clear lighting. After all, the translation of three-dimensional form onto a two-dimensional page or canvas is purely the representation of light as it streams across form. Careful attention to the lighting of a subject is therefore at the very purpose of any artist's depiction of graphic and atmospheric art.First chapter describes proportions in standing poses, illuminated in three distinct manners: ambient, form (single-source), and rim light. Then standing, leaning, seated, kneeling, and reclining—foreshortened poses.Particular attention is given to the pattern of light and shadow in each pose. It is easy to observe the crest-lights and highlights, indicating the joining of two or more planes.The last chapters of this book are dedicated to head, expressions and hands. Here again, our model conforms to the conventional (and current) ideal arrangement of features. A good figure draftsman is not a copyist. He/she instead designs the model and his/her pose. This book inspires students to contemplate their subject before plunging into a drawing or painting. Is she serene or nervous? Does he appear patrician or a dockworker? The student is encouraged to push expression...by all means, characterize! In Hanna Pawlowska, we have an elegant, ideal female model posed at times barefoot, or in heels. These images are intended as an opportunity to cultivate the ideal in the student's interpretation of the human form. Paying particular attention to the attitude she exudes, from fingers to toes. Art and acting have much in common.The Femle Nude I: A Pose Book For Artists is an ideal reference book for professional artists, illustrators, comic book artists, students, colleges and universities, and for all those who appreciate the elegance, rhythm and beauty of the human form.

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