Customer Reviews
Excelent book, classic - By: Dejan Corovic, 24 Apr 2005 
This book had been written from the perspective of an artist. There are no unnecessary detailed anatomical studies that show how individual muscles link to the bones. That would be far too detailed. Instead author, Burne Hogarth, just showsin many illustrations how muscles do appear on the surface from many angles.
As well, by using a human head as a standard relative length, he provides accepted proportions for other parts of the body. For example, human body is 8 1/2 heads tall, 2 to 2 1/3 heads wide over the sholders etc. This approach suits me, but you'll find lots of teaching web sites reference this book.
This book is worth every penny.
Perhaps the best ever "how to" book on creating action poses - By: , 27 Aug 1999 The inimitable Burne Hogarth breaks down, with startling simplicity, the secrets & tricks behind inventing YOUR OWN dynamic action poses! Once you've mastered his techniques, you REALLY WON'T ever need reference again!
As an artist (15 years illustrating), I can whole-heartedly reccomend this book to any other artists (especially aspiring comic & sequential artists), struggling with the difficulties of posing the human figurein deep perspective (and making it look right).
While I'm not a big fan of Hogarth's style (all the drawings... hundreds of them... are renderedin his style), I was nonetheless SO blown away by the techniques he revealed that I went & bought ALL the other Hogarth books.
For the experienced artist... the benefit is this: Burne Hogarth doesn't try & teach you how to draw like HIM. He shows you how to use what he knows, to better serve your OWN art. And his tricks are time tested! Well worth the investment.
Great book with lots of reference, but some views not shown - By: , 15 Jul 1999 
I've referred to this book time & time again for details when drawing a figure to get correct muscle position. It comesin very handy. My only complaint is that some positions just aren't shown. Most drawings are drawn from an angled position so you still can't get a good idea of the depth of the muscle. Also at times, I'll refer to the book to see what a region looks like only to find that the piece I'm interestedin is obscured in every rendering, the underside/back of the arm being one such place.
Pretty Good! - By: , 14 Jul 1999 This guy is a good artist! If you are a beginner at drawing don't bother with this book, even if you have experience you will learn something new!
