Art Models 7: Dynamic Figures for the Visual Arts (Art Models series) DVD-ROM – September 1, 2012

While I love what the book has to offer - the layout is completely confusing to me. Many poses are cropped on the page so that you only see an upper body and not the full pose. Much attention is paid to stacking and overlapping the figures in an interesting way - and often to the detriment of the pose - or the purpose of the pose. On one page a girl KICKING in the air, has her KICKING LEG and FOOT blocked by the body of the next picture next to her. It's great to see her body twisting, and her arms, and her stance... but if you're missing THE KICKING LEG of the KICK POSE... it's kind of USELESS!!!! This occurs over and over again - yet there is at least one full page just of someones face. A perfectly good image for a portraiture book.... but in a DYNAMIC FIGURES book - couldn't the kick pose have been salvaged at the exclusion of a full page face picture?????I'm sure the CD ROM with pictures of these poses in 360 will make this far more valuable than the layout of the print material itself. Mr. Author: this book is not a work of art on it's own. Clever layouts and stacking figures overlapping each other does not make this book effective - it makes it less effective - tedious, inefficient - or in many cases useless. Just show these wonderful poses so that we can SEE THEM. Don't cut off legs to get a cool layout... do WHATEVER it takes to allow us to see the full pose - or you're serving no purpose at all.

Actually, I love all of the books in this series, and I have a membership on their website.This book is dedicated entirely to various action poses. The shots are very dynamic, and as usual, the quality of the photography is excellent. The authors came up with some very creative methods of showing various poses (shots in which the models are suspended from above, for instance) and the models offer a very impressive array of body types, ethnicity, etc.Poses range in type from running, falling, being crushed, pushing, pulling, lifting, throwing, and others.The only issue I have is that the photographs in the book are, at times, limited by space and editing requirements. As usual, the real gold here is found in the DVD included with the book; this gives you full 360-degree turnarounds of each pose in the book, extra poses, and shots taken from unusual angles (above, below, ground level, etc.).A lot of Classical Realists will find many of the poses to be TOO dynamic, but the book makes up for it by presenting plenty of reference that is still useful. Illustrators and comic-book artists should be very pleased with it.I highly recommend all of the books in this series, and the publisher's website serves as an excellent resource, as well.

I think models do great job I only really dislike Dave wearing underwear, when I as an artist want to draw a nude that's what I want to see, covering the articulation of legs and hips, buttocks, and genitals is stupid, I might as well use GQ or Sports Illustrated, if he's going to be such a prude maybe he should do something else. This is done for the purpose of art, nothing shameful about it, I only see beauty in the body, and I also feel cheated, I don't need censorship.As far as everything else keep up the great work.

This review is for the Kindle version but I do plan on buying the books because of how pleased I was with this and the Kindle version of Art Models 5. This is my first time using art model books so I can't give you a professional opinion about the lighting or precise photo quality, but to me the photos were beautiful - very bright and clear with sharp edges. There were a variety of fun male and female poses with dynamic shadowing that provided great sources for practice or inspiration. Based on the description of the actual books (you get photos of the main pose plus several angles of that pose) I'm guessing the Kindle versions have less photos because in Art Models 7 each pose had a different number of, or in some cases no, angle photos accompanying it while Art Models 5 has four angles of each pose. Overall I'm quite satisfied with these Kindle versions and have used them for many school assignments.

Models (both male & female) completely nude in various poses. No backgrounds or props. Just the human form in an all white room. Each pose is featured from several viewpoints. The included DVD is what sets this series of books apart from other pose studies. It has enough shots of each pose to effect a 360 degree view that can be rotated under your control.This is the 7th book published, so they are obviously doing something right!Also, the book & DVD are self-explanatory. It is not necessary to own the previous 6.

Well this is dynamic poses using real models, so if you are looking for combat poses, manga poses, or comic book poses this is not really for you. Additionally this is not really for young children, as the models are nude. It does give you a unique set of poses for practice. That said it runs a little wonky on the kindle.

Very good book and definitely an asset to all artists - I would like to have seen some grappling or hand to hand combat as seen in comic books and graphic novels. It's one thing to draw someone standing or moving - it's something else to see them locked in a battle with someone else.

I found this book to be full of great poses and angles which allow me to create realistic, well proportioned figures in various types of situations. With multiple models, it represents many body types and features good lighting and contrast. This item includes a CD with additional views of each pose, but honestly, I haven't needed it yet!

Super useful selection of models in a variety of poses and perfect for sketching and painting and using in my comic work. A very useful reference selection and the only problem I have with them is that they are all nude (some clothing on some of the models would be great) as well as being of the entire body and not parts such as closeups of the face, hands etc. The images are very large as well so you can use them and crop them in all kinds of ways to create pages to sketch and draw from.

A really useful guide and so convenient. You can take it anywhere, zoom in and out and you don't have to worry about recreating a pose or light conditions as it's always the same.

I found this to be great resource of a wide range of more useful and interesting poses - well worth having.I have some of the other books/CDs in the series - I think they are great and just get better and better.Whilst it does not replace life drawing sessions I find it is a really great resource for practice and for general consideration of poses - I have not come across anything else as good - a great addition to my working library.

The Kindle version is a cut down version of the Art Models books, it doesn't have anything like the number of views of each pose. In some cases just one picture.That's okay for just having something on your device for scribbling from, but if you want to be able to have a larger selection, it's probably better to get the full version. You can always save the images you want to work with to your tablet or whatever and work on them from that later.

As a sculpturer of the human figure I have purchased nearly all this series of books. I have to say they are an invaluable part of my work. I do prefer the old format where there were 4 photos of each position on a page though. I would recommend this series of books to all artists who are working with the human form.