ANATOMY REFERENCES FOR ARTISTS

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, THERE ARE SEVERAL REFERENCES TO PONDER.

How far you go with anatomical studies is dependent on how realistic and appealing you want your figure drawings or paintings to be. What people love about Sarah Simblet’s reference(right) is that there are transparencies between the pages which show you what bony structures make what bumps and shadows on the surface, which is the minimum to understand, to enable good results.

A popular anatomy reference for artists (find it on Amazon)

Cyclopedia Anatomicae

by György Fehér,Black Dog& Leventhal Publishers,Inc.,ISBN 1884822878.

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist

by StephenRogers Peck,Oxford University Press,ISBN0195030958.




Drawing the Head and Figure

by Jack Hamm,PerigeePress,ISBN 0399507914.




How to Draw the Human Figure : An AnatomicalApproach

by Louise Gordon,Viking Press,ISBN0140464778.




How to Draw the Human Figure

(Famous ArtistsSchool :Step-By-Step Method) by Howard Munce,Henry Holt,ISBN 0805015280.




The Human Figure :An Anatomy for Artists

by DavidK.Rubins,Viking Press,ISBN 0140042431.




How to Draw What You See

by Rudy De Reyna,Watson-Guptill Publications,ISBN 0823023753.




Dynamic Anatomy

by Burne Hogarth,Watson-Guptill Publications,ISBN,0823015513.




Dynamic Figure Drawing

by Burne Hogarth,Watson-Guptill Publications,ISBN:0823015777.




Figures in Action

(How to Draw and Paint Series) by Andrew Loomis,Walter Foster Publications,ISBN1560100095.




The Figure in Motion

by Mark Smith and ThomasEasley,Watson-Guptill Publications,ISBN0823016927.