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Top left:
Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing
- my favorite anatomy book for muscles and mass
Top Right:
Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection
I heard of Robert Capa through my favorite short story of Patrick Modiano's
His photos are some of the best photojournalism I have ever seen and I've been wanting to revisit
this book again after visiting my alum's art library,. Phaidon is a great
publisher and while this book could've been a smidge bigger, I think the size suits the photos.
Left:
Free Hand New Typography Sketchbooks by Steven Heller, Lita Talarico
Got really obsessed with typography again and this is a newer typo
sketchbook published recently Iwant so bad.
Middle:
Klimt and Schiele: Drawings
Accompanying book of an exhibition I saw at the MFA in Boston. I prefer Schiele's drawings over Klmits because of the energy he puts into each line.
It's a larger format (more coffee table sized) and the reproduction is amazing.
Right:
Alice in Wonderland, Illustrated by Lisebth Zerger
I can't get enough of her watercolors.
I Second,
Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing. It has led me down the right path to learning and exploring gesture, in a way, I didn't think a book could do with art. I highly suggest anyone who is starting out and interested in character design/anatomy to pick this one up. After that I would suggest:
Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators, by David H. Ross, if you're following that same path. It was a really good look, for me, into how a professional handles their characters and style throughout all their drawings. The main focus of the book is his "glass mannequin", which is also good for beginners to anatomy and perspective. What I really took away from it though, was how to develop my own shape language for characters; to create a cohesive style. Though, if you look at my "art" right now, that's not apparent, but I'll need it for when/if I start comics.
