An award-winning artist and teacher demonstrates how to draw the human figure with shading and texture, using pencil, chalk, and charcoal. With easy-to-follow advice and 82 magnificent illustrations, he covers proportion, anatomy, composition, motion, drawing from memory, and capturing emotion and character with an economy of line. Includes an 8-page color insert. Reprint of the Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., London, 1931 edition.
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