The Complete Guide to Figure Drawing for Comics and Graphic Novels

• Author : Dan Cooney
• Publisher : Barron's Educational Series
• Release : 03 February 2023

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing figures for comics and graphic novels, detailing how to sketch heads and facial features, bodies, and clothing, as well as how to draw backgrounds and compose panels.

• Author : Kensuke Okabayashi
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 31 January 2011

Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples in Figure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this elusive figure.

• Author : David H. Ross
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 28 July 2015

Draw the Human Figure Anywhere, Anytime For today’s in-demand comic creators, animators, video game artists, concept designers, and more, being able to quickly draw the human figure in a variety of action-packed poses is a requirement. But what do you do if you don’t have models or photographic reference readily available? In Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators, artist and instructor David H. Ross provides an alternative solution, showing you how to master freehand figure drawing without visual reference

• Author : Dan Cooney
• Publisher : A&C Black Visual Arts
• Release : 03 February 2023

This one-of-a-kind book instructs artists of all skill levels, and not just those interested in drawing comics. Professional artists demonstrate their techniques for designing and drawing effective comic book characters, both by using photographs of models and by drawing figures from life. Figure Drawing for Comics and Graphic Novels shows you how to compose models to pose for photographs, to build up a reference collection. It covers every element, from conceptualising a composition involving characters and backgrounds, equipment, locations for

• Author : Andrew Loomis
• Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
• Release : 31 May 2011

The illustrator Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered among artists - including comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, Realist style. His hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered, and Figure Drawing is the first in Titan's programme of facsimile editions, returning these classic titles to print for the first time in decades.

• Author : Burne Hogarth
• Publisher : Watson-Guptill
• Release : 01 August 1996

This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.

• Author : Michael Massen
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 03 June 2016

An intuitive approach for figure artists to get proportions right. Traditional methods of measuring body proportions rely on the abstract memorization of convoluted fractions or multiples of the human head. But artists shouldn't have to be mathematicians. Figure Drawing in Proportion introduces a better, more intuitive, less intimidating way to get proportions right. It starts with the revelation that--despite the wonderful variety of bodies in this world--the human figure has standard size relationships artists can build upon for accurate renderings.

• Author : Glenn Fabry
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 February 2023

The author offers a primer in drawing the human form, focusing particular attention on musculature in eight hundred drawings taken directly from his own sketchbook, accompanied by his own commentary. Original.

• Author : Joanna Henly
• Publisher : Rockport Publishers
• Release : 14 August 2018

In Pocket Art: Figure Drawing, the second book in the new Pocket Art series (be sure to check out the first book on portraits!), learn to draw figures on the go with the quick visual exercises in this compact book. The lively, graphic approach of this guide will have you drawing figures right away. Look and learn with step-by-step illustrations and expert tips provided by London-based fashion and portrait artist Miss Led, a.k.a. Joanna Henly. Following an introduction

• Author : Steve Huston
• Publisher : Rockport Publishers
• Release : 01 June 2016

Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark Count is not a typical drawing instruction book; it explains the two-step process behind juggernauts like DreamWorks, WB and Disney. Though there are many books on drawing the human figure, none teach how to draw a figure from the first few marks of the quick sketch to the last virtuosic stroke of the finished masterpiece, let alone through a convincing, easy-to-understand method. That changes now! In Figure Drawing for Artists: Making Every Mark

• Author : Robert C. Harvey
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 03 February 1996

Traces the history of comic books, discusses the economics of the field and the changing relationship between the words and the pictures, and profiles leading artists

• Author : David H. Ross
• Publisher : Watson-Guptill
• Release : 28 July 2015

Draw the Human Figure Anywhere, Anytime For today’s in-demand comic creators, animators, video game artists, concept designers, and more, being able to quickly draw the human figure in a variety of action-packed poses is a requirement. But what do you do if you don’t have models or photographic reference readily available? In Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators, artist and instructor David H. Ross provides an alternative solution, showing you how to master freehand figure drawing without visual reference

• Author : John Paul Lowe
• Publisher : Watson-Guptill
• Release : 12 August 2014

A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to crate comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art forms. Based on SCAD's world-famous sequential arts curriculum with examples of professional comic book

• Author : Dan Gheno
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 30 April 2015

How to draw like the masters! With Figure Drawing Master Class, you will discover the secrets to creating masterful figure drawings through examples of Old Master drawings, as well as Dan Gheno's own beautiful drawings, demonstrations and diagrams. This take-home course covers everything you need to put yourself on the fast-track to successful figure drawing. Inside you'll find: • The basics of training your hand to draw • Gesture drawing lessons • How to draw heads and hands • How to accurately compose your

• Author : Christopher Hart
• Publisher : Chris Hart Books
• Release : 05 March 2019

Aspiring comic-book illustrators can begin their artistic journey with this specially produced journal, which features an introduction from art instruction superstar Christopher Hart. Every page offers blank, black-framed panels formatted in the comic-book style, and separate sections throughout allow artists to create several different stories. Those with more experience will enjoy fleshing out their narrative and visual ideas, while beginners can experiment with the format. The possibilities are endless!