TUS UGA$21.95 U.S.A/$25 95 Canada QYNTHDIG FIGUAE OAFAIIG ste mos ‘essential—and the most difficull—of all skills for the artist to learn, The hardest problem is to visualize the figure in the tremendous variety of poses which the body takes in action, poses which plunge the various forms of the body into deep space and show them in radical foreshortening Foreshortening itself i, in fact, the single most challenging aspect of figure drawing This book introduces the author's own revolutionary system of figure drawing—a system which makes it possible to visualize the forms of the human body from ‘every conceivable point of view as they interlock in deep space. With this system you will be able to draw an incredible variety of poses, actions, and gestures without a model, and with the correct relationships between forms. Burne Hogarth was a founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he served as Coordinator of Curriculum, Design, and Art History. His famed lecture demonstrations of anatomy and drawing provided the material for Dynamic Anatomy, Drawing the Human Head, Dynamic Figure Drawing, Drawing Dynamic Hands, and Dynamic Light and Shade. Mr. Hogarth received his education and art background in Chicago, where he started a diversified professional career that embraced some forty years of experience in art ‘education, fine art, illustration, advertising, and newspaper art. He achieved worldwide recognition with his illustrations for the Sunday newspaper illustrated "Tarzan" and has since published Tarzan of the Apes and Jungle Tales of Tarzan in book form. His cartoons, drawings, prints, and paintings have been exhibited at the Musée des Arts at Decoratifs of the Louvre in Paris. |SBN-19:97¢.0-8250-5774 'SeN-0: 000 977"7 54 s!a0e2st015771 | ‘Jacket design by Bob Fille, Graphiti Graphics WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS, wwnw.watsonguptil.comDYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING