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Summary: good idea, bad execution
Review: As other reviewers have mentioned, the photos are grainy. very grainy. However, left unmentioned was something even more troubling - many of the photos have been digitally cropped in photoshop or some such program. this was done presumably to save ink by not printing backgrounds. The cropping was done extremely poorly and amateurishly - there are toes that come to points, feet that look like blocks, all sorts of bizarre and unnatural concavities. a real hatchet job. the end result looks like someone took a pair of scissors and crudely snipped photos from a magazine. this sort of problem is particularly distressing in a book intended for artists as the accurate depiction of the outer contour of a form is vital for drawing.
On another note, the models are not actually that thin. more average. This would have been a useful book, if not for the botched photos. An older edition would likely be satisfactory.
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Summary: More artists should use this
Review: Do it yourself: just jump. You're almost certain to feel different body masses shifting with the motion. Moving figures really are different.That's why this book is so valuable. Every image is dynamic and unstable, impossible as static poses. But that's true even of someone walking - it's a sequence of unstable positions. The poses are all vivid and dynamic. The models are chosen to show not only the movement, but the shifts of body masses, tension of muscles, and play of hair, all things that contribute to the dynamics. The large majority of photos are of women - several different ones, and the variety is worthwhile. In this case, the male minority makes some sense. Most men have more lean mass than women do, so women tend to display more shifts of mass when in motion. There are a few male figures, though, and a few images with infants or more than one model. This book really does show possibilities that other pose books don't, and that even live models can't. If you ever draw figure, this book will be very useful.
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Summary: ok
Review: does the pictures qualitie is like on the cover photo ? grey like on the cover ? i need to practice for pose this may help me and i draw a lot of manga and real life is the best key for drawing other things
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Summary: Nice poses but it lacks image clarity
Review: Graininess is my only dislike with this book. The models are attractive and in an abundance of poses; but the clarity and detail is lost in the graininess of the photographs. Sharp photos are a must for a figure drawing book, and this book has average sharpness. Graininess should not prevent someone from gaining the details needed for a drawing. The book is usefull, but large reproductions of the model become impossible because of lack of clarity. I recomend the book. I'm just saying there are better books of the same subject which cost about the same price. Judge for yourself.
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Summary: Grainy, hard to see, silly, unrealistic poses
Review: I loathe this book, and will sell it. All of the pictures are poorly lit and grainy, which don't show you anything in terms of structure. All of the models are super thin almost to a nauseating point. Its sad when you have to search through the book hoping to find the LEAST ugly person to draw. Also, the poses are in motion. I will give him that. However some of the poses are so funny and unrealistic, that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. We have the "I have an object stuck in my rear" pose and...Some of them are so out there I cannot describe them. I totally do not recommend this book.
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Summary: Not bad, but there are better of the same.
Review: I must say that the photos in this book do not lack dynamism. The photographers have gone to extremes to ensure that the poses are full of motion and gesture. However, as a figurative artist I can not use this book extensively because of the lack of feasibility of the poses. The figures jumping and twisting around are interesting but the poses are generally not useful.
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Summary: i love this book
Review: It's a pretty straightforward resource. It is hard to get your friends to peel off all their clothes and suspend themselves in midair, I will grant you that. Also, it does not fill up half the book with those inevitable chapters telling the reader, "This is a pencil, you can draw with it and use an eraser, too. This is a watercolor brush..." However, most of the poses in this book are unnatural poses of people making gestures I don't see in real life. A large majority of the images are of women, and skinny L.A. style women at that. (Interesting shave, there, missy.) Some of the photos are very, very dark and don't reveal anatomy at all. Also, they are very grainy. I don't know if this is a function of the film or the printing process (to keep the cost of printing an all-photo book down.) I have to say, it was one of the better ones in the bookstore, but it leaves a good bit to be desired. It would have been nice if there were more males in it, the poses were more natural, and there were people of different sizes and (hello?) colors in there, too. I have been using it to draw from, but all the flying in the air spreadeagle poses are not going to make it into my sketchbook. I think I will invest in a good magnifying glass and do some drawings from Muybridge's photo collections of people and animals in motion.
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Summary: I'll Take Muybridge and a Magnifying Glass, Please
Review: It's a pretty straightforward resource. It is hard to get your friends to peel off all their clothes and suspend themselves in midair, I will grant you that. Also, it does not fill up half the book with those inevitable chapters telling the reader, "This is a pencil, you can draw with it and use an eraser, too. This is a watercolor brush..." However, most of the poses in this book are unnatural poses of people making gestures I don't see in real life. A large majority of the images are of women, and skinny L.A. style women at that. (Interesting shave, there, missy.) Some of the photos are very, very dark and don't reveal anatomy at all. Also, they are very grainy. I don't know if this is a function of the film or the printing process (to keep the cost of printing an all-photo book down.) I have to say, it was one of the better ones in the bookstore, but it leaves a good bit to be desired. It would have been nice if there were more males in it, the poses were more natural, and there were people of different sizes and (hello?) colors in there, too. I have been using it to draw from, but all the flying in the air spreadeagle poses are not going to make it into my sketchbook. I think I will invest in a good magnifying glass and do some drawings from Muybridge's photo collections of people and animals in motion.
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Summary: Motion is the key to feeling in a rendering of motion.
Review: The figure at rest is contained energy, one in motion is explosive energy. In order to appreciate the complexity of rendering the human figure, seeing on in the frozen stages of motion is key to rendering the mood, the life, the energy such a figure exudes. Nicely illustrated, accompanied by well done text.
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Summary: Motion is the key to feeling in a rendering of motion.
Review: The figure at rest is contained energy, one in motion is explosive energy. In order to appreciate the complexity of rendering the human figure, seeing on in the frozen stages of motion is key to rendering the mood, the life, the energy such a figure exudes. Nicely illustrated, accompanied by well done text.
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