Drawing from Life

by Clint Brown and Cheryl McLean

Book Overview

The leading textbook for college figure-drawing classes, DRAWING FROM LIFE provides a clear, comprehensive, and thought-provoking guide to drawing the human form for anyone interested in exploring this time-honored artistic tradition. For centuries, drawing the human figure has given artists the tools and vocabulary for creating paintings, sculpture, drawings, or prints-from Renaissance classical to contemporary expression. In addition to working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030289343
• ISBN13: 9780030289347
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Art Book For Artists

Very well written, the text includes many well-chosen quotes from various aartists. Overall, the reading is interesting and useful for understanding and apprecaiting figure drawing. Much better than most drawing books. The included illistrations are also very well chosen.

Very good book!

This is a very good book to learn about the methods of life drawing. There are several examples in every chapter, each from very different artists. The book is laid out well and easy to follow. It has been a good addition to my life drawing class.

Drawing

I bought this book for a class I was taking and I ended up keeping it for myself once I finished the class. It is filled with information and instruction. I love this book and I very rarely keep book I buy for classes and this is one of the few I kept because I know I will use it many more times in the future. It works well for references and how to stuff.

A book to Keep

This book gives you the bones to enrich your experience with figure drawing. Professor Brown draws from varied sources and presents helpful images along with text that is intelligent and imformative. It is filled with sketches from masters such as Da Vinci as well as descriptive sketches from Clint addressing the figure as a subject filled with motion. I have continued to refer back to the book and appreciate its portable size. This is a book to take with you and keep even if you are moving around!

Figure drawing books don't get any better than this one.

"Drawing from Life" is a treasure an artist, teacher, and drawing lover finds once in awhile. It is very logically layed out. I enjoyed variety of illustrations, the learning exercises, and glossary. Alas... some negatives: the price, the quality and detail of the reproductions, especially the anatomy ones. The book needs to be bigger in size and make use of detail enlargements to show the beauty of the drawings