Life Drawing for Artists

Preface

The purpose of this book is to provide guidance for one of the most difficult tasks in the known creative world—to describe, define, and capture a living human being on a flat piece of paper in a meaningful, compelling, artistic, and attractive way. This difficult and beautiful practice is known as figure drawing, and it is a subject that I and many, many, many of the great artists in history have fallen in love with and continue to practice and be obsessed with to this day.

In this book, I will humbly attempt to share some of my ten years of know-ledge and experience on the subject. I say “some” because the topic is so complex and so deep that one book alone can never be enough. What I want to do with this book is provide support in ...