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Figure Drawing Without A Model | 
| Author: Ron Tiner
Publisher: David & Charles
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 273177
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 1
ISBN: 0715329324
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.4
EAN: 9780715329320
ASIN: 0715329324
Publication Date: March 24, 2008
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Product Description
Figure Drawing Without a Model is a comprehensive manual of creative drawing covering everything readers need to know to draw the human figure from memory and the imagination. The content fires the imagination for drawing beyond what can be posed in a studio or drawn from observation, to bring originality and style to the readers work. The author explores anatomical structure, figure movement and character expression with practical demonstrations. Once the core elements have been mastered, the author reveals how to draw for book illustration, cartoons and graphic novels, providing some of his own artwork to show a wide range of styles and techniques.
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 Book, worthy of note. September 30, 2008
Not exactly what I expected, but a interesting book nonetheless.
I especially enjoyed the first half of the book(and it was the reason I got it).
This is not a clean cut "how to" book, this is not a beginner's book either.
It is general guide, from the viewpoint of a veteran British illustrator, for those who already know how to handle a pencil.
As I said before, an interesting book.
A Great Book for Anyone Wanting to Draw or Draw Better July 27, 2008
Ron Tiner's book is a gem. Starting with the design of the book it's self. It's a hardback book with a wire ring binding. A conventional is hard to keep open if you want to draw or view a page. This book is designed to open and lay flat and that's handy. Inside are pages full of great direction and advice on how to improve at the art of drawing. Both beginner and intermediate level artist will get something from this book. This book has material you'll go back to again and again. Anyone interested in drawing for comics will find this book essential to learning how to draw from thier imagination.
One of the best books on the subject November 29, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first and best advice comes from Robert Crumb, underground artist extrodinaire: "Wanna draw better? Draw. Wishing won't make it happen!"
Now, if you still want to spend money on the subject there are art classes or in this case inspirational/advisement/genre books.
This book helped me go a level up by pointing out I could pause a VCR (or in this day, Cable TV and DVD) for endless "Life Drawing" classes. Filled a few sketchbooks that way. Even though I do cartoony art, doing that helped tremendously. Ron Tiner's a good artist, buy his book.
Observer's guide November 26, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This isn't a book about copying someone else's art. The author instead takes the approach of guiding you to make your own observations from life drawing. Many new artists want to skip drawing from life and instead want to copy other artists works. Ron Tiner takes the time to remind us that if you want to draw the figure, you need to observe the actual figure in person. If you're looking for a step by step, draw a circle, draw a square and now its a figure ... well first of all, your figure drawing will suffer from using those kinds of texts alone, but that is not this book.
You will find primers in here on proportion, body types, foreshortening. These are things that you should not only look for in the artist's illustrations, but in your actual studies from life. I think he makes very clear that drawing from your imagination takes a lot of knowledge, practice and memorization which new artists tend to willfully ignore looking for the easy route. You can imagine and have probably seen the "artists" surrounded by books, copying other artists, probably improving but only slowly.
As Tiner points out, when you observe and draw at the moment of a real life scene you're surprised at how FAST you'll improve. You have to because the subject might only be there briefly walking down the street.
Not only that, but he takes the time to express how to turn these observations into the scenes that you've imagined. That's something I haven't really seen in a book before. Understanding that thought processed opened my world of drawing. Now I'm professional artist and illustrator (BA in Fine Art).
Definitely give this book a chance and do what he suggests. Don't just do the things you want to hear. You'll be successful.
 Solid instruction November 3, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Not a beginners book but for someone who has mastered the rudiments of draughtsmanship, this is a goood guide to taking the next step...drawing from memory. The quality of Tiner's drawings should inspire anyone wanting to go beyond mere copying of the figure.
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