Download or read book Drawing the Female Nude written by Giovanni Civardi and published by Cassell Illustrated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To paint, draw, or sculpt the human figure is one of the most demanding of artistic problems.... Explores the artistic possibilities and particular problems of female bodies.”—Library Journal.
Download or read book Drawing the Male Nude written by Giovanni Civardi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Civardi breaks down the complex process of drawing the male nude, from making rudimentary choices about framing, lighting and the most appropriate drawing tools, to rendering detailed and anatomically accurate artworks. Civardis own masterful drawings provide an excellent touchstone for the artist wanting to explore the depiction of the male body, and his studies of numerous poses cover all aspects of life drawing. Civardi takes a pragmatic, almost scientific, approach to teaching the subject, combining basic physics with artistic interpretation. Drawing the Male Nude also touches upon the significant anatomical differences between the male and the female form, but these are also covered in some detail in the companion to this title, Drawing the Female Nude.
Download or read book Drawing the Female Nude written by Giovanni Civardi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giovanni Civardi explores and explains the intricate process of depicting the female nude. From choosing your method of representation and deciding whether to draw from life or from photography, every facet of drawing the female nude is covered in this in-depth reference book, a valuable resource for any artist. Civardis own considered drawings provide an excellent basis for the artist wanting to expand their figure-drawing skills; and the author takes a practical, almost geometric, approach to depicting the female form, breaking down the body into basic shapes and portraying the female figure in a variety of simple and complex poses.
Download or read book The Art of Nude Life Modeling Illustrated written by Jenna Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 31 Original female nude art drawings and sketches from nude life modeling sessions. These drawings range from the 1960's through the 1990's. Several body types and body poses are modeled. This is a wonderful artistic example of the female human form. All of these original drawings appear on the right hand side of the page, the left side pages are blank for your own sketching, story writing or notes. This is Volume 1 and we are working on Volume 2 now. An art model poses for any visual artist as part of the creative process, providing a visual reference for the human figure in a work of art. However, more than being simply the subject of art, models are often thought of as muses, a source of inspiration, without whom the art would not exist. The most common types of art works that use models are figure drawing, figure painting, sculpture and photography, but almost any medium may be used.Art models are often paid professionals with skill and experience but are rarely employed full-time, and artists may also rely on friends and family to pose. Paid art models are usually anonymous and unacknowledged subjects of the work. Models are most frequently employed for art classes or by informal groups of artists that gather to share the expense of a model. Models are also employed privately by professional artists. Although commercial motives dominate over aesthetics in illustration, its artwork commonly employs models. For example, Norman Rockwell used his friends and neighbors as models for both his commercial and fine art work. An individual who is having their own portrait painted or sculpted is usually called a "sitter" rather than a model, since they are paying to have the work done rather than being paid to pose.Beginning with the Renaissance, drawing the human figure from living models was considered the most effective way to develop the skill of draftsmanship. In the twentieth century, it became established that it is best to draw from life, rather than copying two dimensional images such as photographs. In addition, an artist has a connection to drawing another human being that cannot exist with any other subject. Models for life drawing classes are usually nude. In the classroom setting, where the purpose is to learn how to draw the human form in all the different shapes, ages and ethnicity, there are no real limitations on who the model can be. In some cases, the model may pose with various props, one or more other models, against real or artificial background, in natural or artificial light.The role of art models has changed through different eras as the meaning and importance of the human figure in art and society has changed. Nude modeling, nude art and nudity in general are at times subject to social disapproval, at least by some elements in society.-Wikipedia
Download or read book Great Drawings of Nudes written by Carol Belanger Grafton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters, from Dürer and Michelangelo to Modigliani and Derain. Other artists include Raphael, Rubens, Gauguin, Matisse, Rodin, and others.
Download or read book Drawing the Female Figure written by Joseph Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 270 unique examples, renowned artist Joseph Sheppard demonstrates how to draw the nude female realistically and with authority, to make each image come alive! In addition to basic drawing techniques, Sheppard provides insight into the procedure of drawing from life, from how to look at a model, to composition and emphasis necessary to create a compelling drawing. Drawing the Female Figure covers the most important aspects of the female figure in a variety of poses: anatomical points, proportion, attitudes and weight distribution, rendering, variations and types, foreshortening, and the figure in motion. With the keenest attention to detail, Sheppard demonstrates how to draw each facet of the female anatomy in standing, seated, kneeling, crouching, and reclining positions. With instruction and tips for every level of artist working with any medium, Drawing the Female Figure is the perfect addition to every creative person's library. Joseph Sheppard attended the Maryland Institute of Art and was awarded a Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship to Florence, Italy in 1957. His work has won numerous prestigious awards and is featured in nearly two dozen museums and collections worldwide, including the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, please visit the author's website www.josephsheppard.com.
Download or read book How to Draw written by Patricia Monahan and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing is the starting point for all forms of art as well as being an important skill in itself. This comprehensive step-by-step guide covers various major subject areas from landscapes to life drawing and provides instruction in a range of media including charcoals, chalks, pastels, coloured pencils, inks and graphite.
Download or read book Nude Female Drawings Visual Reference Book written by Jessie Hunter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nude Female Drawings is a tasteful display of over 150 nude drawings of women in a variety of positions and locations. While this book is intended to help artists learn to draw women in the nude, this book is more of a visual reference for artists, as the book is short on words but plentiful in the number of sketches it contains. The women are diverse in age and the type of movements captured are varied. If you're an artists with limited access to live nude women or simply a lover of nude female art, this book is for you. The book contains drawings of nude women from all over the world and provides wonderful examples of the ethnic differences between male bodies. The book is divided into the following chapters: Caucasians, Africans, Russian, Asian, Indian, and Latino.
Download or read book The Female Nude written by Lynda Nead and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Western art is saturated with images of the female body. Lynda Nead's The Female Nude was the first book to critically examine this phenomenon from a feminist perspective and ask: how and why did the female nude acquire this status? In a deft and engaging manner, Lynda Nead explores the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced, issues which have been reignited by current controversies around the patriarchy, objectification and pornography. Nead brilliantly illustrates the two opposing poles occupied by the female nude in the history of art; at one extreme the visual culmination of enlightenment aesthetics; at the other, spilling over into the degraded and the obscene. What both have in common, however, is the aim of containing the female body. Drawing on examples of art and artists from the classical period to the 1980s, The Female Nude paints a devastating picture of the depiction of the female body and remains as fresh and invigorating today as it was at the time of its first publication. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.
Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Download or read book Drawing and Painting the Nude written by Philip Tyler and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists have always been fascinated with portraying the nude: the beauty and nuances of the human figure are endlessly absorbing. This practical and inspirational book celebrates and continues that enduring and beautiful tradition by encouraging you to discover your own talent and style. Philip Tyler looks in detail at the key skills and themes, such as perception, proportion, composition, colour and facture, that the artist needs. He then investigates ideas and styles, and encourages you to interpret the nude so your paintings have those elusive qualities of vitality and relevance, which can turn a painting into a masterpiece. He explores the practical, technical and philosophical problems of drawing and painting the nude, with exercises to support each lesson and over 300 images illustrate the text. Aimed at both novices and art graduates, this practical and inspirational guide is illustrated throughout with 320 colour images and there are exercises to support the fifty lessons.
Download or read book Practice Drawing Color XL Workbook 4 written by York Herpers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freehand drawing - made easy! Even in a digital world, freehand sketching is still a recipe for success for impressive works of art. It is your own hand that makes your art unique. Many people don't know their ability to draw. But even unpractised line drawings can make for impressive images. It is actually the imperfection that turns your images into works of art. This exercise book makes you an artist Tracing is a simple and proven method to learn freehand drawing. After your exercises in this book, you will also succeed without templates because you will have developed a sense of proportion and contours. The result: impressive drawings that you have made yourself, even on the first attempt. These are originals that you should even sign with your own name. It is your hand that has created this remarkable work of art. The beautiful motifs are what make each stroke of the pen or pencil pure joy. 132 XL pages. 20 unprinted pages for your originals. Color Edition. www.practice-drawing.com
Download or read book Practice Drawing XXL Workbook 4 written by York Herpers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Cut out contour pages 2. Glue together both pages 3. Put below the drawing sheet 4. Trace contour 5. Continue drawing freehand www.practice-drawing.com
Download or read book Rembrandt and the Female Nude written by Eric Jan Sluijter and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict. In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.
Download or read book Practice Drawing Workbook 4 Female Nude written by York P. Herpers and published by Herpers Publishing Int. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook to the awesome paperback exercise book. Of course, this digital version can not replace the paperback. The numerous white pages are zhe paper pages in the original book, on which you can make your own drawings in the book. With the underlying contour template. We recommend purchasing the original as a pocketbook and using this ebook for the color information when coloring or to print additional contour sheets. However, you can also fix a normal paper sheet over the display of your mobile device and use the outline of the desired motif on the display as a pause template. Freehand drawing - made easy! Even in a digital world, freehand sketching is still a recipe for success for impressive works of art. It is your own hand that makes your art unique. Many people don‘t know their ability to draw. But even unpracticed line drawings can make for impressive images. It is actually the imperfection that turns your images into works of art. This exercise book makes you an artist! Tracing is a simple and proven method to learn freehand drawing. After your exercises in this book, you will also succeed without templates because you will have developed a sense of proportion and contours. The result: impressive drawings that you have made yourself, even on the first attempt.These are originals that you should even sign with your own name. It is your hand that has created this remarkable work of art. The beautiful motifs are what make each stroke of the pen or pencil pure joy. 132 pages. 20 unprinted pages for your originals. www.practice-drawing.com
Download or read book Expressive Figure Drawing written by Bill Buchman and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of art, figure drawing has been regarded as the very foundation of an artist’s education and the center of the art-making process. Bill Buchman’s Expressive Figure Drawing presents the classic fundamentals of this genre, but with a distinctly contemporary twist—celebrating freedom, expressiveness, and creativity. This unique method incorporates more than 30 essential exercises, empowering you to draw the figure dramatically and with confidence, no matter your current level of skill. Filled with step-by-step demonstrations, inspiring images, and insightful text revealing a wide range of techniques and concepts, this book presents new ways to think about the figure and use your materials to free the artist within.
Download or read book Sketching Women written by Studio Atelier 21 and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easily learn to sketch the female figure with these 55 step-by-step drawing lessons! This life-drawing, classroom-in-a-book is packed with expert advice and observations, dozens of poses to study, as well as easy-to-understand notes and tips. Your sketches will improve rapidly as you learn all about how the skeleton, muscles and posture all come together to express the uniquely female form. You'll hone your gesture drawing skills with this book and all of your artwork will improve as a result, no matter the application: storyboarding, cartooning and graphic novels, illustration, formal drawings, painting and more! Learn to sketch the following: One, two, five and ten minute sketches, with each level adding more and more realism Individual body parts (including faces) and their bone structure and muscles Standing and sitting poses Nudes and clothed figures Light and dark tonal variations Dynamic poses Color drawings
