sketching women lifelike female figures

By (author) Studio Atelier 21 , Edited by Tsubura Kadomaru
Paperback | 168 pages
Publication date 08 Dec 2020

In Sketching Women, three professional studio artists (Kozo Ueda, PhD, Takahiro Okada, PhD and Minoru Hirota, PhD) join forces to show you how to sketch the female figure through 55 step-by-step drawing lessons.

Each instructor walks you through their philosophy for croquis sketching. Croquis sketches are quickly-rendered drawings that capture the essentials of a subject's form and pose with relatively few expressive lines.

There are four levels of sketching described in the book.

Learn to sketch the following:

Individual body parts (including faces) and their bone structure and muscles
Standing and sitting poses
Nudes and clothed figures
Light and dark tonal variations
Dynamic poses
Color drawings

You'll quickly hone your sketching skills with this life-drawing classroom-in-a-book. The expert advice and observations, dozens of poses to study, as well as easy-to-understand notes and tips make it easy to understand how the skeleton, muscles and posture all come together to express the uniquely female form.