Figure Drawing: A Complete Guide (Art of Drawing)

Unlike Loomis, whose illustrations are probably from the 1950's, Civardi brings you into the 21st Century with with modern, realistic, excellent illustrations in every one of his books. What I like best is that he shows you techniques, poses, of heads, bodies, anatomy,clothing (and how do shade folds of clothing, etc., without, to me, wordy discriptions and you just get it!His books are chock full of illustrations. You can't go wrong buying any one of his books, though I don't feel they are for beginners.

Would need to say this is a book to read about drawing, it explains the methods the artist used in some of their examples. It does explain some of the techniques. This is not a book which teaches you step by step, instead it describes the reasons for the technique.

This book is great. It has a lot of useful information and reference photos. I will get a lot of use out of this book and so will the next buyer.

Lots of pictures to draw with some instruction for beginners, he doesnt delve too much with techniques which is a shame.

I got this for my daughter who wanted to learn to draw people and she loves it. Its easy to use and has helped her greatly improve her ability to draw detailed humans.

This book is just what I wanted to teach me how to sketch.

Been getting into drawing again. This is really helping me learning more on my work.

Like the info great diagrams