- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Edition edition (22 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471396966
- ISBN-13: 978-0471396963
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 622,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
∗ Detail shots and full–body photographs
∗ Many poses shot from multiple angles
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
∗ Detail shots and full–body photographs
∗ Many poses shot from multiple angles
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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
- Detail shots and full–body photographs
- Many poses shot from multiple angles
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved the idea of this book. A book just on foreshortened views was just what my life-drawing shelves needed but I was quite disappointed with the quality of the images. They are not printed very clearly and are very grey and lacking in contrast. I would also have liked to see some more natural poses but from interesting angles- from above say. Most of the images were of reclined poses, and a lot of the Mild Foreshortening poses had already been covered in other books.
However it did offer some images that were of use and if you don't have any figure reference books it would probably come in useful.
However it did offer some images that were of use and if you don't have any figure reference books it would probably come in useful.
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Bad for Illustrators looking for reference!!
25 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
This book like It's title clearly indicates is not an illustration reference book.It's extremely useful to students and practitioners of the fine art of figure drawing ,it provides poses which are very diffrent from what we are used to seeing in normal life thus forcing us to see how many familiar shapes change when viewed at an unfamiliar angle,for a figure artist struggling with foreshortening a book like this one and Burne Hogarths Dynamic Figure Drawing used in tandem could work wonders.This is the only book of its kind and is in one word "BRILLIANT" .
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Very useful
11 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
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]
//wiredweird
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]
//wiredweird
67 of 77 people found the following review helpful
interesting poses, bad position and poor quality photographs
29 Sep 2000
Format:Paperback
The poses in this book are indeed very dynamic and interesting but the one MAJOR draw-back is that they are all with the models laying down on the ground. Definitely not a very practical figure reference book for an illustrator like myself. I mean lets be honest, how many times are you going to be drawing a figure contorted on the ground verses standing and engaged in some sort of action. It may, however, be possible too adapt some of the poses for a standing position and yet gravity affects the body completely differently when it is horizontal instead of vertical. The photographs themselves are very poor in terms of quality in that they are: muddy, bad resolution, slighty out of focus, badly lit etc. etc. etc. Basically this was a very disappointing purchase. The "Fairburn System" series is far better than this book for photographic figure reference material; however, very hard to find.
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