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Click to enlargeThe Energetic Line in Figure Drawing

Alon Bement
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ISBN: 0486470121
Page Count: 144
Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Well-crafted and class-tested, this guide features more text than typical art instruction books. Its unique pedagogy focuses on learning to draw complete figures prior to study of individual components, and it stresses the figure in action rather than static examples. Numerous illustrations accompany 30 figure drawing lessons.
Reprint of Figure Construction: A Brief Treatise on Drawing the Human Figure, The Gregg Publishing Company, New York, 1921.

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