Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life

this is basically everything you will ever need when it comes to drawing humans.but a fair warning,you need to have some 3D knowledge or at least should know how to draw basic 3D objects when dealing with bridgman.do not just look at the pictures.read the text, observe the curves given in the pictures.his drawings are exaggerated on purpose.so do not just copy, but analyse and you will be good in no time.

Before this book, I searched for it in many shops but could not find it. now I have found this book and now I am happy to get it.A very profitable book for emerging artists.

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Print pretty much sucks. If you can get your hands over an old print, it would be worth it. The individual books might be better, but even those suck to be honest, but better. Bridgman's students compiled this book after he died, and as the prints went on, a lot of the knowledge and context was lost in the iterations. I just found some e-books of the original prints and that's what I use. Make sure you get the ebooks of the oldest edition you can find!

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Pour les amateurs de dessin, agréablement surprise par le volume important et la multitude de modèles présentés.

Det här är dunder vid förståelsen av människans anatomi!

It's a wonderful book but some of the images are so poorly printed. I've read this new edition offers some great extra insight but of you want accurate drawings to copy perhaps an older one would be better.

This is a wonderful guide to help learn how to draw figures despite the "poor" quality of Bridgeman's example images. In fact, the images are rough and lack detail by design. Why?The answer is clearly indicated on head page of the book - image attached. The salient message in the 3 sentences is clear:"This is the story of blocked human form where the bending, twisting or turning of volume gives the sensation of movement held together by rhythm. It's purpose is to awaken the sense of research analysis of the structure hidden beneath. It is hoped that the ideas conveyed in the drawing and text of this book may enable the reader to carry on to independent and better ideas."Clearly, Bridgeman's purpose is not to teach you to copy by rote a book of HIS images/figures. Rather, he intends to teach you how to draw and use the building blocks of simplified human anatomy to create your own figurative art, and especially bodies in motion. Any artist wanting to learn how to draw the people they see and imagine is the ideal reader of this book. If you are looking for detailed images to copy then this book is not for you.However, if you're ready to take the next step in figurative art and render people in action - twisting, turning, running, fighting, etc. your art will benefit reading this book. Or, as the author himself said: "...enable the reader to carry on to independent and better ideas."

Questo libro contiene una selezione dei sette volumi di Bridgman sul disegno della figura umana. Il volume ha una carta spessa di ottima qualità e le pagine si avvicinano al formato A4 (un po' meno alte, un po' più larghe). Questo rende il libro piuttosto pesante (più di un chilo). Preferisco forse il formato dei volumi di Bridgman della Dover (ho una copia del Bridgman's Life Drawing), piccoli e leggeri. Il consiglio che posso dare è di valutare l'opzione di prendere i sette volumi, invece di questo compendio. Tuttavia, se consideriamo il lato economico, conviene sicuramente acquistare questo volume invece dei sette libri da cui è tratto. In ogni caso questo volume è bellissimo e soprattutto molto utile per il disegno di figura umana (uomo e donna), nuda o vestita (c'è una sezione sul drappeggio).