- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (Mar 5 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0471396966
- ISBN-13: 978-0471396963
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 907 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #273,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators
Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
* Over 530 high-quality photographs
* Both male and female nudes
* Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
* Detail shots and full-body photographs
* Many poses shot from multiple angles
Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
* Over 530 high-quality photographs
* Both male and female nudes
* Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
* Detail shots and full-body photographs
* Many poses shot from multiple angles
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A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators
Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:
- Over 530 high-quality photographs
- Both male and female nudes
- Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening
- Detail shots and full-body photographs
- Many poses shot from multiple angles
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1.0 out of 5 stars
interesting poses, bad position and poor quality photographs,
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This review is from: Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective (Paperback)
The poses in this book are indeed very dynamic and interesting but the one MAJOR draw-back is that they are all with the models laying down on the ground. Definitely not a very practical figure reference book for an illustrator like myself. I mean lets be honest, how many times are you going to be drawing a figure contorted on the ground verses standing and engaged in some sort of action. It may, however, be possible too adapt some of the poses for a standing position and yet gravity affects the body completely differently when it is horizontal instead of vertical. The photographs themselves are very poor in terms of quality in that they are: muddy, bad resolution, slighty out of focus, badly lit etc. etc. etc. Basically this was a very disappointing purchase. The "Fairburn System" series is far better than this book for photographic figure reference material; however, very hard to find.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good laying down shots - no variety!,
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This review is from: Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective (Paperback)
Although this book would be great if you wanted to draw a bunch of shots of people lying down - there's no action! No standing up, no shots in motion, nothing to do with holding objects or running or walking or anything. It's just all laying down. Quite boring, I wish it was better for the price that it was. :/ I'm considering selling it. Wish there was something better.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful,
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This review is from: Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective (Paperback)
There are lots of visual reference books out there. It would be easy to populate a bookshelf with them. After a while, though, they start to look the same.Not this one. Heavily foreshortened poses are the hardest (for me at least), so this book devotes itself to genuinely distinctive views. It may sound like distorion to describe an arm or leg as being a third length of the other. In fact, it is distorion if they are the same length, when viewed from some angles. This book gives an uncommon perspective - it has earned its place on my shelves. [review of first edition]
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