Complete Guide to Life Drawing

I am a figure drawing instructor and I use this book almost daily. It has beautiful illustrations and is structured in a smart and easy to follow way. I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning to draw the figure.

My favorite guide to life drawing I own till now. There are many good drawing books on the market but personally I find this one very helpful. Bammes is a very good teacher. He really speaks my language. It is a good book to follow when one starts drawing. Really simple explicative suggestions, exercises to do while learning. I can't speak for the advanced artists but for me it worked just fine. It worked so fine that I bought "The Complete Guide to Drawing Animals" by the same author, too. :)

I thought this was going to be another student show off book but this one is the real deal! The actually book by Gottfried Bammes but in English! Aside from some well made reference drawings it has exercises to do as well. My only gripe is that it relies on you flipping around the book to see specific drawings being mentioned while doing so which can get a little annoying at times. Otherwise a must have.

Four stars out of five because the binding on this book is not so strong so I have to gently open it all the time in fear that one day in the not too distant future it will come apart and I will be left with a bundle of loose pages.The actual content of the book is super, it is a good book to get especially if you follow a more constructionist approach to figure drawing. I wish his other books also had an English translation.

I've been searching and waiting for english versions of any one of Bammes' masterpieces . This one isn't the Der Nackte Mensch that I've been waiting for but this one is also amazing. The German title for this book is Menschen zeichnen. While Der Nackte Mensch is more like Elliot Goldfinger's book; Menschen zeichnen is more like George Bridgeman's books. I highly recommend this book. I love the illustrations in Der Nackte Mensch but I've never been about to read the words. I don't "love" the illustrations in this book as much but the information presented here is pure gold.

Absolutely fantastic. Top-notch break down of the mechanics of joints, beautiful illustrations of many styles and mediums, easy-to-read prose, and just hands-down the best figure drawing book I've ever purchased.

A serious gem. A true translation and not one of the earlier knockoff books assembled by his students. The books greatest strength is Bammes brilliant and functional simplifications of the human body. Any anatomy book can overwhelm you with photorealistic renderings of bone and muscle, but Bammes sifts through all that biology and gives you what the artist needs to know, in a way that actually helps you learn and draw.

If you are looking for a fantastic book for drawing people....this is the book to buy! It is great and practicing by redrawing the pictures is this book is challenging but very possible with the intricate and dynamic drawings that are in this book. Notice, I stated drawings and NOT pictures of people.

Very insightful so far. Hefty 300 plus pages book on artistic approaches to anatomy. If you are an artist or are interested this is the place to start.

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This is a beautiful well written book is about observation, anatomy, life drawing, years of study and a resource of the human form. It deals with seeing relationships between forms and negative spaces. It requires the person drawing to really look at the model and observe the position of the body in a fresh comparative way. This book has a strong sense of proportion which is often a concern with beginners. If you are looking for a good reference book, this is it.

全身の構造、プロポーション　比率簡単な身体の各部位から重心の位置・傾斜動き、骨格・筋肉の構造が掲載されている。古典の画家たちの作品も多数ある。身体の構造を理解する事で、説得力のある作品が描ける。