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Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School
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Drawing Lessons from the Famous Artists School

by Stephanie Haboush Plunkett, Magdalen Livesey
June 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
6h 20m
English
Rockport Publishers
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How does the body communicate in art? As important as facial
expressions are, their impact is enhanced and carried forward by
the expressive gestures of the hands and body — by the “language”
of the human form itself.
In the sketch below by Austin Briggs, additional details are not
necessary to give us a sense of what is going on. It seems abundantly
clear that this figure, perched on a rocky incline with one arm thrust
into the air and the other set for stability, is in trouble ...
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ISBN: 9781631591228