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Anatomy for the Artist

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For millennia, the human body has been celebrated as nature's finest masterpiece. This superb drawing guide helps you unravel its complexity and capture its aesthetic on paper.

Packed with instructive illustrations and specially-commissioned photographs of male and female models, Anatomy for the Artist unveils the extraordinary construction of the human body and celebrates its continuing prominence in Western Art today. Through her detailed sketches, acclaimed artist Sarah Simblet shows you how to look inside the human frame to map its muscle groups, skeletal strength, balance, poise, and grace.

Selected drawings superimposed over photographs reveal fascinating relationships between external appearance and internal structure. Six drawing classes guide you through human anatomy afresh, offering techniques for observing and drawing the skeleton, including the head, ribcage, pelvis, hands, and feet. By investigating a series of masterworks juxtaposed against photographs of real-life models, Dr. Simblet also traces the visions of different artists across time, from Holbein's Christ Entombed to Edward Hopper's Hotel Room.

For any artist, learning about the human body is always a palpable delight. This imaginative reference guide will enhance your anatomical drawing and painting techniques at every level.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

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123 reviews2 followers
February 27, 2012
Some nice photographs and drawings however all the models are a bit too perfect. It would have been more interesting if more body shapes and different ages were included. Also the unnaturally coiffed body hair is a bit distracting. I found the anatomical drawings of most use. The text was not really helpful or instructive to me. I think this is aimed more at those with an interest in life drawing rather than for experienced practitioners. Having said that, it is a beautiful book with some lovely transparent overlays. The male models are gorgeous.
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796 reviews470 followers
December 4, 2012

(More pictures at parkablogs.com)

Sarah Simblet's anatomy book is a bit of a mixed bag for me.

Unlike other anatomy books, this one features lots of stunning photography of the body in nude. The models have lean muscular figures and the lighting and poses are great. Some photos are used as underlays with translucent skeleton overlays on top. Unfortunately, there aren't any muscles overlay using this method.

As a book that's targeted at artists, I thought the drawings were not good enough. They are done in a sketchy style that makes it difficult to make out different muscle groups. It takes a bit of effort to understand what you're looking at. You can't draw what you can't make out. That's the major weakness of this book.

There's not much on the head and neck. Overall, the book lacks the depth of coverage you find in other anatomy books like Human Anatomy for Artists by Eliot Goldfinger, which presents layers over layers of muscles each in different drawings, or the concise explanation of Classic Human Anatomy: The Artist's Guide to Form, Function, and Movement by Valerie L. Winslow.

With its great photography but not very defined drawings, it's a general anatomy reference book at best.
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3 reviews
September 17, 2009
Very informative, agreed. Everything anyone would want to learn how to "draw". Yet i don't believe in learning art practical - if you like to draw, draw. If it's not anything similar to the object you're drawing,sketching, painting, sculpting .. it's irrelevant. What matters is if YOU enjoy art. It's yours, you created it, it's a piece of you. THAT'S art. You do not need to "learn" how to "draw" .. Subjectivism.

However, Informative :)
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61 reviews4 followers
May 14, 2007
The only complaint I have about this book is that the models are MODELS. They're too perfect looking. Most people don't have such sculpted abs, and perfect butts. And since when was drawing or sculpting boring perfect-looking people fun?
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30 reviews12 followers
March 1, 2009
An absolute brilliant book to draw from. This book is ideal for referance work, for those who seek it i would highly recomend this. Not only does it show great quility photos of different poses and angles but also illustrate the relationship between the surface appearance of the body and the complexities of the underlying structure.
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122 reviews15 followers
July 9, 2007
Very helpful! This book is full of descriptive text, photographs, drawings by the author, art historical references, and, unlike many books on human anatomy, it doesn't ignore the genitals. No fig leaves here, my friends!
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120 reviews29 followers
January 20, 2019
There's surprisingly few anatomy books that focus on photos of people, most anatomy books I've seen before were predominately an artist's drawings and while that may be useful for showing the different layers of muscle and flesh with clarity, I really don't want to be looking at someone else's drawings when I'm learning to draw people for most of the time, because you're always looking at their particular approach, however realistic they draw.
Of course photos have their own layer of stylization but they're ideal for difficult poses that a model cant hold very long, getting a closer look and scrutinizing a pose for longer.

This has lots of good, useful poses that you wouldn't get in an ordinary life drawing class and the photos are much nicer than the next best option: the Art Models series by Douglas Johnson (which is in many different formats). I recommend those too, for a bigger variety of models and a different variety of poses.

Some have complained that too many of these models look like regular models found in advertising and fashion. I would have liked more shapes, sizes and ages but I don't know how easy it would be to actually get those people to appear in a book like this.

A pleasant surprise was that Leilani Dowding is one of the models (although I couldn't find any credits), she was a popular glamour model in Britain in the late 90s/early 00s, I underrated her at the time and these are better than most of the photos you'd find of her in newspapers and magazines from back then.

There's a lot of drawing advice from Simblet but it's mostly the photos I'm here for. After this book and the Johnson books, I'm going to look at porn (even types I don't like, for the variety of bodies), nudist culture sites, athletes, dancers and climbers, for all the different poses.
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518 reviews16 followers
March 22, 2021

320-Anatomy for the Artist-Sarah Simblet-Biography-2001

Barack
2021/03/22

" Anatomy for the Artist " was first published in the United States in 2001. It shows the muscles and bones of the human body, thereby showing the relationship between the appearance and internal structure of the human body.

Sarah Simblet, born in 1972. She is a portrait painter and author, and mainly teaches anatomical painting. Studied at Bristol University. Representative works: " Anatomy for the Artist " and so on.

Table of Contents
1.The structure of the human body systems
2.bones and muscles
3.The body and balance
4.Drawing classes

" The study of human anatomy is so much more than the one the understanding of their function; it Ils the celebration of our wondrous
physicality in the world. The biological complexity of the body can be
weighed against its aesthetic beauty so that the life that drives us is seen to ripple
and pulse above and below the boundary of skin. Art is the perfect tool for revealing
such knowledge. "

When I was learning art when I was a child, I also learned the sketch of the human body. But at that time, I was just sketching the photos, and there was no objective condition to face real people to sketch. The human body is beautiful, for the average person, just to see enough; but in terms of artists and doctors, this is not enough, but also be able to understand from the point of view of anatomy human body.

" An adult human body weighing about 68 kilograms (150lbs) contains
approximately 100,000 billion cells. Each cell is highly specialized and,
grouped together with similar cells, creates living tissue. There are four
principal types of tissue in the human body: epithelial (relating to glands and fine
membranes as in the lining of the nose, blood vessels, and the digestive tract),
connective (binding and protecting all internal parts), nervous, and muscular. ”

The complexity of the human body surpasses any man-made objects we can make. Each cell probably doesn't know what the whole is like, but forms an independent organic human body. Sometimes when you think about it, this is really surprising. I like bees, each cell is only partial, it is on the whole no idea, but it can form a whole.

" Eleven
systems combine to make up the whole body: they are the integumentary (skin, hair,
nails and mammary glands), skeletal (bone, cartilage, and ligaments ), skeletomuscular
(muscles and tendons of the skeleton), nervous ( brain, spinal cord, and
peripheral nerves), endocrine (glands and hormones), cardio-vascular (blood
supply), lymphatic (fluid drainage Pal immunity), respiratory, digestive, urinary, and
reproductive systems. ”

The human body is a compact instrument, and if any part of it goes wrong, some problems may occur. Some problems cause us trouble, but they are not fatal. Some problems are fatal. Sometimes thinking about it this way, it is not easy for a person to be healthy and healthy for the rest of his life.

" Weight for weight, bone is one of the strongest known materials. It develops
at about 37°C and yet only a few modern materials produced at extremely
high temperatures Surpass its strength. it can withstand compression forces
twice as well as granite, and stretching forces four times as well as concrete,
This is due to its unique composition of 66 percent earth matter insecure
mineral salts, chiefly calcium and phosphate) and 33 per cant animal matanal
(protein and polysaccharides), which converts to gelatine or glue when
balled, if the animal material is removed by burning, residual earth matter will
retain its shape, but tum to dust on being touched. ”

Since the texture of the bones so hard, why do people still likely to fracture it? And why can organisms composed of cells be so hard?

“ Muscle is a biological contractor that produces movement and heat,
Operating the joints, pumps, and valves of the body. There are three types:
striated, smooth, and cardiac. ”

The bones form a human frame, flesh and blood are filled in, and finally covered with a layer of skin, which forms the difference between people. There are tall, short, fat, and thin, and there are differences in beauty and ugliness, but their tissue materials are all the same, but the tissue The method is different.

“ Skin is the largest organ of the body and it is arranged in two distinct layers. The upper layer, called the episode, is a sheet of self-replacing dead and dying cells, and these are chiefly composed of sulfur-rich, water- and bacteria- a repellent protein called keratin. Beneath lies the dermis. ”

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it can clearly reflect my health. We if the appearance of their importance, then, we must be cautious to protect their skin.

" Fat is the body's energy resource or onboard food supply. The fat stored
within the hypodermis is called superficial or panniculus adiposis and is
made of soft adipose tissue (or specialized fat cells}. This layer softens the
contours of the angular skeleton -muscular frame and provides insulation
against cold. The largest concentration of fat is in the buttocks: it fills the
angles of the gluteal muscles (p. 35) to create a cushion for the ischial bones
of the pelvis (p. 33). ”

Fat is a very important part of the human body, when it is hoarding in order that we do not want our local time, it makes us feel troubled by exercise, dietary modification, and other ways to make it disappear. But when we want to have more fat in certain parts to make the part look more full and full, we also use injections of hyaluronic acid, autologous fat, and other methods to make it look better.

" The lungs almost entirely surround and protect the heart, and their outer
surface describes the interior space of the upper fly cage. They weigh very
little and are composed of over 700 million tiny air sacs called alveoli. Inhaled
air is warmed and humidified in the nose and trachea (or windpipe ), and
drawn into the lungs by the contraction of the diaphragm. A powerful muscle
fed to the inner walls of the ribs, stretches over the liver and stomach,
dividing the thorax and abdomen. Once In the lungs, oxygen passes into the
bloodstream in exchange for carbon dioxide. ”

The lung is an important organ of the human body. We know that smoking and other behaviors can damage the health of the lungs, but we still can't help but do so, because the happiness brought by this behavior is immediate, but the harm it brings is long-term. Especially once a habit is formed and inertia arises, the power of reason becomes weak.

" The nervous system is composed of the brain, spinal cord, and about
150,000 km (93,000 miles) of peripheral nerves. Its function is to
communicate. Every second of our lives, it brings together, makes sense of,
and reacts to millions of fragments of information, Nerves largé enough to be
886n appear as white threads running through the body. These contain mary
hundreds of parallel fibers formed of cells called méurons. Neurons carry
electrical impulses, the number, and timing of which encode information
traveling from one part of the body to another 4 large nerve fibers could carry
as many as 300 impulses nearly 120m (3941) in one second. ”

We say some people talented, some talented dull, whether it is because physiologically, these structures have been identified sake of it? Acquired really can be improved, but the improvement in the degree of how much can it?

“ Spinal cord is bathed in circulating fluid, wrapped in membranes, and cushioned by
fat. This is the brain's main cable of communication with the body. Paired roots
emerge from either side, between the vertebrae, and these divide to form a tracery
of peripheral nerves. ”

The spine is the main channel of the brain's control center and the body's trunk, and it must be carefully protected. If this road is not smooth, the body will have many adverse reactions. So once there is a back injury, the harm is great, and it may be very long.



February 8, 2024
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Płaskie buty biurowe:



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May 16, 2024
Overall its well-explained anatomy for the Artists what I liked the most were the beginning and historical highlights with the main characters and artists who played great roles in opening up about the human body and the importance of understanding Anatomy, what I didn't like was it looking like Fashion photography magazine, not Artists photography, models are a too perfect, most interesting part of drawing human body for Artists are different shapes and looks, artists look forward interesting type of bodies and features those differences are attractive and interesting for Artists. but at the same time I can understand the writer's perspective that she tried to show just a sample to explain the anatomy ,due to the importance of photography inside this book I can complain about the type of models that are supposed to be more artistic than those fashionable magazines.
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3 reviews7 followers
January 8, 2009
This book is pretty crappy. It reminds me of what an anatomy book would look like if E! did an anatomy book. It's all bells and whistles... and I'm sure it sells well, but in the end the all you'll really get out of it is knowledge of what an air brushed body looks like. blaaaa.
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5 reviews
June 19, 2009
By far the best anatomy book I have found so far. Amazing muscle reference and vellum overlays make this a permanent accessory at my desk.
11 reviews1 follower
July 2, 2011
One of the most beautiful and detailed anatomy books.
4 reviews
December 21, 2019
Very informative, well written with excellent photography. The semi-transparent drawings that are superimposed on the photographs are also really useful and something I hadn't seen before. Great ties into seminal works throughout history as well as reference to contemporary artists as well.
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187 reviews27 followers
September 12, 2020
I appreciated the use of photos and the concentration of usage of anatomy study *for* the artist, as not many books who claim to do so, don't.
I find it very helpful yet slightly lacking in content.
Overall a good one.
3 reviews
May 20, 2023
great introduction to anatomy, a requisite for anyone interested in making decent figure drawings (knowing foundational anatomy, that is). imo you don't need much more than this book. one of the essential art books for any self taught artist
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10 reviews
September 25, 2023
As the plot unfolded, it took unexpected and mind-bending turns that left me reeling. The narrative was so cleverly crafted that I couldn't predict the outcome until the very end. This level of unpredictability is a rare find in the genre.
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35 reviews1 follower
October 19, 2023
"This book is a gripping rollercoaster of emotions. It took me on a breathtaking journey, evoking laughter, tears, and everything in between. The characters were so vividly drawn that I felt like a part of their world. It's an unforgettable read that will stay with me for a long time."
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14 reviews
October 25, 2023
A beautifully written tale of love and resilience: The prose in this book is nothing short of poetic. The story of love, loss, and the indomitable human spirit is heartwarming and touching. I couldn't put it down.
9 reviews
August 24, 2018
This is a good resource but I wish there was more variety in the body types. Beautiful as they are the models are all young and fit.
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