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Click to enlargeDrawing the Living Figure

Joseph Sheppard
Our Price$12.95New!(Table of Contents)
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486267237
Page Count: 144
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11 1/4
This innovative approach depicts muscles and bones focuses upon the specifics of surface anatomy. 177 of Sheppard's drawings show many different live models in front, back, and side views, and in various standing, sitting, kneeling, crouching, reclining, and twisting poses. Each drawing is accompanied by two diagrams, one for bones, one for muscles.

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