Figure It Out! Drawing Essential Poses

By the world's bestselling author of how-to-draw books - more than six million copies sold worldwide. Accessible and clearly written step-by-step instructions. Covers a wide variety of subjects, including manga, human anatomy, cartooning, comics and animals.

Figure It Out! Drawing Essential Poses provides the fundamentals of drawing natural-looking figures.

Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart helps artists fine-tune their skills with the fundamentals of drawing natural-looking figures. Eschewing the esoteric "art poses" and wooden mannequins commonly found in art books, he portrays everyday, real-life gestures on human-looking foundation figures: standing, sitting, kneeling, and reclining, with arms folded, ankles crossed, hands on hips, and more, all shown from various angles. Hart also explores deeper concepts such as perspective, illusion of depth, casting shadows, and foreshortening, and provides step-by-step tutorials that take artists through complete, naturally posed figure drawings from start to fin