11 Best reference books like Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

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Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

By: Michael Hampton

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention is an instructional figure drawing book geared towards the nov…

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Cover of Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art) by James Gurney

1. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

By: James Gurney

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully cr… read more

Similar categories in James Gurney's Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art) book and Michael Hampton's Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
"There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. …"

-James Gurney, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

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2. Drawing the Human Head

By: Burne Hogarth

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In 300 extraordinary drawings, Hogarth shows how to draw the head from every angle, age the face fr… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
Cover of Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

3. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Cover of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee, John Buscema

4. How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

By: Stan Lee , John Buscema

4.03

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Written by the iconic Stan Lee, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way is a must-have book for Marvel fa… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
Cover of Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators by Michael D. Mattesi

5. Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators

By: Michael D. Mattesi

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for AnimatorsCapture the force in your life drawing subjects with this … read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson

6. Keys to Drawing

By: Bert Dodson

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodsonshares his complete drawin… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
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7. Perspective Made Easy

By: None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Perspective, the author tells us, is easy; yet surprisingly few artists are aware of the simple rul… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

8. Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

By: Michael Hampton

4.50

Format: 182 pages,

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention is an instructional figure drawing book geared towards the nov… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
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  • design
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Cover of What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude

9. What Is Art?

By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"

-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

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10. Anatomy for the Artist

By: Sarah Simblet

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Specially taken photographs show the construction of the human body while underlying anatomical str… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination by Scott Robertson, Thomas Bertling

11. How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination

By: Scott Robertson , Thomas Bertling

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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12. Drawing the Head and Hands

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: None pages,

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13. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By: Scott McCloud

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more

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14. Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

By: Eliot Goldfinger

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The power of the image of the nude - the expressivity of the flesh - has always inspired artists. "… read more

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15. The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

By: Richard Williams

3.72

Format: 640 pages,

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16. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

By: Robert Henri , None , None

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert … read more

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17. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist

By: None

3.88

Format: None pages,

Stephen Rogers Peck's Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist remains unsurpassed as a manual for stu… read more

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18. Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers

By: None , Marcos Mateu-Mestre

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The ultimate guide to visual storytelling! How to make the audience "feel" the story while they are… read more

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19. The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

By: Walt Disney Company , Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The most complete book ever written on the subject, this is the fascinating inside story, told by t… read more

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20. How to Be an Artist

By: Jerry Saltz

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."

-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist

Cover of Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists, 2) by Michel Lauricella

21. Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists, 2)

By: Michel Lauricella

4.50

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! This small, portable book presents a… read more

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  • art
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13 Top nonfiction books like Figure Drawing: Design and Invention by Michael Hampton

Transform Your Habits

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

James Gurney

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Drawing the Human Head

Burne Hogarth

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Andrew Loomis

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way

Stan Lee , John Buscema

4.03

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Transform Your Habits

Fun with a Pencil

Andrew Loomis

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

George B. Bridgman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

James Gurney

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Art Forms in Nature

Ernst Haeckel , Richard P. Hartmann , Olaf Breidbach

4.12

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