World Famous Comics: Mastering Drawing the Human Figure From Life, Memory, Imagination
Mastering Drawing the Human Figure From Life, Memory, Imagination
By: Jack Faragasso Publisher: Faragasso Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Faragasso Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Product Description: This book was written to foster the creative spirit of the artist and to aid in the development and the continuation of realistic representational art. It is for all who love to draw the human form. It is for those who have never drawn a line, for those who are students who can draw to a certain degree, and for those professional artists who are proficient in drawing. This book shows step by step how to construct and draw the human figure and face as well along with all it’s features. It reveals in great detail the rarely perceived and little understood hidden underlying structure of the human form and how light and shade relates to it. All of this combines with the use of expressive line and the principles of "growth" and "action" produces drawing in its most complete sense. Once these ideas are assimilated and mastered the student is encouraged to draw from memory and imagination which thereby expresses his own creativity as an artist.
Book designed for mediocraty While the cover might lead you to believe that the artist of the book is competent, his disproportioned and scratchy sketches are not notable enough to buy a book of and certainly not something you want in your repetoir of skills. His use of proportions is just incorrect.
This book is not a usable source any type of academic art study. The artist of this book needs to take some art classes badly.
Don't waste your money if you want a good book to learn how to draw use better and more accurate references that are out there because there are plenty.
Blind trying to lead the blind One is supposed to be kind in most circumstances, but when this poor book is STILL offered to the unwitting student, it finally seems appropriate to speak out at the risk of seeming mean-spirited. Mr Faragasso's own weak drawings offered as examples should serve as ample warning that he is not in any way a master draughtsman and his instructional notes are on the same level. It is a backward, fragmented approach. How he has survived at the Art Student's League surprises me.
It's especially unique & complicated... The title here is interesting: great choice(!). The actual contents, however, are unique yet unrefined. I bought this based on the interesting cover & title; I hadn't actually seen its contents. When I received this in the mail, my immediate 1st impression was that this looks like someone's loose & rough notes for an *eventually* finished product. This seems like the idea for a *possible* book, not the actual book itself. Many of these drawings are exceedingly sketchy, and many are highly stylized.
Is this helpful though? That's the bottom-line, for me at least. The many pages on the planes of the figure are so incredibly complicated, it's kind of impressive & frustrating at the same time. I give the author a lot of credit in the sense that this is one of the most unique-looking drawing books I've ever seen. 5 Stars for originality! But what good is that if the actual information here isn't as good as in other currently available books? It's just too needlessly complicated & expensive for me to honestly recommend.
Maybe it's great classroom teaching, but as an individual work- it just seems like a nice try at best. If anyone's interested in drawing from memory, I highly recommend Bridgman's books. My other favorites are by Burne Hogarth, as well as The Figure: The Classic Approach to Drawing and Construction by Walt Reed.
The absolute best book on drawing that there is. Let me say first that I am highly predjudiced in favor of this book.Also, learning to draw is DIFFICULT for most of us!! I had the good fortune to study with Mr. Faragasso about 20 years ago at the Art Students League. My father studied with Frank Reilly and Mr. Faragasso was one of his classmates. After so many years as a professional painter I can say that the knowledge that he gave to me has served me well. I am so grateful that all of this information has been assemled in one book for all to benefit from.It is also woderful that the information has been preserved (none of us are getting any younger!). The planes are clearly explained. They relate to the structures which underlie them, therefore they can be a bit challenging. However, that IS our anatomy and it is what we have to learn in order to move forward and learn to really SEE and UNDERSTAND what we are seeing. This book will be a classic.
Superb manual on the craft of drawing This is one of the finest book on the craft of drawing currently available, if not the finest. The book is an execellent presentation of the program developed by the late Frank J. Reilly at the Art Students League. I know this because I was one of Mr. Reilly's drawing class monitors for two years. This is a book for people who are truly serious about learning the craft of representational drawing. Short of having Mr.Reilly or Jack Faragasso pointing out the wat, this is as good as it gets in art instruction books. Candido Rodriguez (...)
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