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Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist (Galaxy Books)
Stephen Rogers Peck
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ASIN: 0195030958 |
Book Description
Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for students. It includes sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, equilibrium, and locomotion. Other unique features are sections on the types of human physique, anatomy from birth to old age, an orientation on racial anatomy, and an analysis of facial expressions. The wealth of information offered by the Atlas ensures its place as a classic for the study of the human form.
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fantastic.......2007-08-14
My professor/adviser of art advised me to get this.
It was great advice :D
Just when I thought it was ridiculous to get another anatomy book..........2007-06-07
This book surprised me. I already have several dozen books on art anatomy, but Peck's book has more. He goes into expressions, cultural and age distinctions, and locomotion. Is this the only book you'll need in studying anatomy, probably not. But each book you get on the subject, and study (NOT JUST COLLECT) will hone your visual memory until drawing the figure becomes second nature. Note: Study means putting time and effort on that drawing pad!!! Also, nothing beats drawing from life or imagination! These books are to supplement these areas.
Pretty Good for the Price.......2007-01-11
This book is a cheap and good reference for beginning figure drawers. The diagrams are fairly clear but some of the hand-drawn references get confusing.
Some sections need more diagrams.......2007-01-09
I bought this book on the account of the positive reviews here. A part of me regrets buying this book because I expected a figure drawing book. It isn't. It's a reference to human anatomy and I guess half if not most of the book is useful. I just can't give it 4 or 5 stars because Mr. Peck uses more words than visual diagrams to explain how the body moves and where fat develops. The section about fat is purely textual. It would have been better if there's a diagram of an average person overlaid with outlines where fat develops.
I still use it to supplement Joseph Sheppard's Drawing the Living Figure though.
I ordered Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais-Germain and I hope the high reviews of that book reflect its actual quality.
I guess it's true that there is no one-stop shop book on anatomy and figure drawing. An artist must have access to a library - personal or otherwise - to learn from.
Again, Mr. Peck's book in my opinion doesn't deserve 4 or 5 stars but if you do buy it, you won't regret it as much as let's say buying an anatomy book authored by Christopher Hart (blech).
A great reference.......2007-01-06
This book is very informative, and the best anatomy resource for artists that I have ever used.
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Horses, dogs, cats, lions, cattle, deer, etc. Muscles, skeleton, surface features. The basic work. Enlarged edition. 288 illustrations.
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An Atlas of Animal Anatomy for Artists.......2007-06-18
My daughter really liked this book but she wants to be a Veterinarian. Very involved. Excellent book if you want to capture all the nuances of the animals body. A must have for the serious animal artist. It helps to know the correct structure of the animal.
useful 3d modeling guide.......2007-01-11
I bought this book after a classmate in my 3d organic modeling class brought it in to share. It is great as reference for 3d modeling in maya, zbrush, whatever you are using. That's because it has all kinds of view like side, top, front and even more detail drawings of paws or head. The price is affordable too and the softcover makes it easy to scan and flip.
Great work.......2005-08-15
This is an easy book to understand an animal anatomy for people leaning toward the creative side of life and missing some understanding of the scientific part.
Not for the ordinary Joe.......2005-05-21
Not worth the buy: Borrow it or get it at a flea market. First off, it looks like some biology book, nothing artistic about it. The book is filled with old drawings that are probably royalties free anyway. Maybe it's OK as a reference book.
Get Jack Hamm's book instead: More tips and tricks on drawing animals.
Great Book for Artists.......2005-01-19
This is exactly what I needed for doing horse sculptures. A+ Very happy with my purchase. Will also use it for the other animals!
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Full text, plus anatomical illustrations; plates by great artists showing anatomy. 593 illustrations.
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A reliable "classic" book.......2005-05-05
I have been doing studies out of this book for several months and it has proven itself useful many times over in helping me learn the subtleties of human gross anatomy. The additional plates are useful in that they give you different styles to look at and evaluate. It may be outdated today, having first appeared over fifty years ago, but as a beginner this has only made it more comforting.
I would hesitate to call this, or any one anatomy book, a definitive one, but it is a good choice to tote around since it's relatively small and comprehensive.
Poor.......2004-04-27
This book contains blurry reproductions of master drawings (Michelangelo, etc.), crudely executed original drawings, hard-to-read text, and at least one error in labelling. Better artistic anantomy books are out there. Three books come to mind: Paul Richer's Artistic Anatomy (from which some of the best drawings in Schider are taken), Eliot Goldfinger's Human Anatomy for Artists, and Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist.
Excellent.......2002-02-16
I'm not amazed that this book is still in publication. I bought the first press back in 1981 while still a junior in high school on the advice of Joe Kubert to study anatomy. It still sits in my reference today. The wealth of information that it contains should make this book cost more. The plates from Leonardo, the hand section, the muscle groups,on and on and on. This is the must have. You will not be disappointed.
Great Reference !.......2000-04-30
I bought this book almost ten years ago for a drawing class I took. I still use it today for reference. This book has to be the most useful book I ever bought while I was a student. I have never gone back to my math or science books. But I always go back to this book. Buy it you won't regret it.
A trusted friend.......1999-11-19
I use this book constantly for both drawing and sculpting. There is enough variety that I don't really need to reference any other books.
Book Description
A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators
Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
- Over 530 high-quality photographs
- Both male and female nudes
- Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
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- Many poses shot from multiple angles
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goooooood.......2007-09-23
It's a great material!!!! a great research book and reference!!! there really are few chances for people in arts field to gain the knowlege this book provide. Usually the best way is real life observation, but you don't have a model any time you want to draw, do you? so this book is a great material when you don't have that chance and a guide for those who want to improve his work with a real model.
My only complaint is the poor contrast on the pictures. It doesn't have to show deep black shadows but a little bit more of contrast could emphasize better different muscular groups. Any way, most of reference books are the same at end, but not this one!!! Foreshortenig is one of the hardest views to archive for artists (painters, art and human figure students, comic book artist and illustrators, etc)
Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure is Deep Perspective.......2006-08-07
The book is okay. My biggest beef is that a lot of the poses that the models are in are pretty boring and could have been more interesting. They seemed pretty repetative to me as well. However, it does over insight on the muscles shapes formed when looking at the body from deep perspective. You can then takes that and push it to your needs.
It could have been better but it's not bad.
Exellent!.......2005-09-22
This is the book I've been searching for for years! Most art photo reference books will either give you very standard standing, lying, walking poses or very artistic poses(ie unclear) . This book has clear photos of the body in unusual positions. There's a wide variety of poses and sections. Both male and female models.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It's a must for those who can't afford to hire a model everyday.
Very useful.......2004-06-11
There are lots of visual reference books out there. It would be easy to populate a bookshelf with them. After a while, though, they start to look the same.
Not this one. Heavily foreshortened poses are the hardest (for me at least), so this book devotes itself to genuinely distinctive views. It may sound like distortion to describe an arm or leg as being a third length of the other. In fact, it is distortion if they are the same length, when viewed from some angles.
This book gives an uncommon perspective - it has earned its place on my shelves.
[review of first edition]
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Wonderful Reference Book.......2002-09-30
I have been using Mark Edward Smith's two excellent photographic references as a source for practicing figure drawing over the last year or so. I was a bit hesitant to buy this book - afraid that it might just be duplicating what I already have - but once it arrived in the mail I was really glad that I did. The quality of the photography is *fantastic* and it's printed on a glossy stock which preserves the halftones and detail which unfortunately sometimes get 'washed out' in Smith's books.
The range of poses is great too - from some very classical poses to some really "out-there" angles and poses which border on contortionism. Some of the most beautiful poses in this book are ones which a live model couldn't hold for more than 2-5 minutes, so having it captured on paper is a real bonus. All in all, I wuold say that the combination of poses and camera angles provides a fantastic reference work for studying the muscles of the body in various states of tension and compression.
I think I'm going to be spending lot of time drawing from this book.
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This Sale is a Ripoff.......2005-08-26
This book sells off the author's website for $34 USD, brand new. Do not buy this used copy from a very indecent seller.
Practical, beautifully illustrated, a must-have!.......2001-11-14
This book is the 2nd book by the author on the subject (the 1st one is out of print.) It's widely recognized as the ultimate source of information on how to make mokume gane.
Mokume gane is a traditional Japanese metalsmithing technique by which sheets of different metals - generally copper, silver, gold, and alloys of those - are stacked and welded together. This results in a piece of metal that displays a woodgrain-like pattern that shows the different metals' colors.
This book focuses on the different techniques to make mokume gane. It addresses the 2 usual methods, liquid and solid bonding, and also deals with more complex and high tech methods. One of the best feature is an entire chapter on a great low cost method. Not only does it address the methods to make the raw billets, it also talks about each technique that can be used to reveal the internal pattern.
The book is maybe 50% to 75% written by Midgett himself, but he has not hesitated in leaving others talk about different techniques. This results in a text that addresses each area with great confidence.
The book is enriched with many photographies, both step by step illustrations of techniques as well as examples of art works, many of them trully stuning. Again, Mr. Midgett gave a lot of rooms for other contributing artists to display their work.
The last chapter is a series of projects, increasing in difficulty, profusely illustrated with clear pictures.
All and all, one of the best "how to" book I've ever purchased. Complete, clear, and yet not boring at all. Highly recommended!
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Great Introductory to fabrication.......2007-09-24
This book offers a concise and pheripheral approach to introductory microelectric fabrication. It covers the essentials that are needed to delve into more intricate and complex fab issues. It is a good starting material for me, even though I might sometime get lost reading concepts from it only. It is great resource when you have it in company of another fab book. hence complememting each other. Have fun digging this!!!!!!!!
Almost adequate.......2005-11-22
Book is seriously lacking required information to solve the examples let alone the problems. For example chapter six's first example is 6.2. What happened to 6.1? The equation for mean free path (6.6), what is p? Is it the same as P in equation (6.5)? Who knows since there is no example or explanation. Attempting to get the same reults in the text become time consuming and frustrating because all the required information is absent. The book is lacking detail. Avoid it at all possible costs. Hey anyone out there thinking they can write a better book than this go for it. This one needs to be put off the marketplace.
Excellent Book for begineers and practicing engineers.......1998-07-19
It is an excellent book for beginners who need a good understanding of the basic unit processes associated with a standard microelectronic foundry. It gives a quick reference to almost everything in modern processing and refers to a variety of textbooks and journals for further information. In summary, this is the book you must have if you are in the semiconductor profession and require a quick but useful reference to almost everything in the business.
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As someone who has a background in the fine arts and who has recently began working at a metal shop I found this book to be an extremely valuable and understandable introduction into the world of metal fabrication. It is well writen with many color photograghs. It is not ment for the advanced metal worker, except maybe as a reference, but as a beginer it is a must read.
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Save yourself some money.......2007-09-19
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super saver shipping.......2007-09-15
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This digital document is an article from IIE Transactions, published by Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. (IIE) on January 1, 1996. The length of the article is 5831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: Using data gathered over many years, people working in sheet metal fabrication have compiled lists of errors that are frequently made by designers in the field. These errors (or violations) are common to the design of sheet metal components used in a wide variety of products from computer chassis to automobiles. This paper outlines the efforts to use this information to aid in the development of a rule-based design advisor for sheet metal fabrication. The design advisor is a module of Promod-S, a concurrently engineered, application-orientated product modeler that is being developed by researchers at the Automation and Robotics Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The paper presents algorithms for both the identification and correction of design violations. The correction approach includes methods for updating an entire part after a feature has been modified.
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Title: A design advisor for sheet metal fabrication.
Author: Shuchieh Yeh
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IIE Transactions (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1996
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Volume: v28
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