Book of a Hundred Hands (eBook)

George B. Bridgman (Autor)

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2012
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-13260-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The legendary Art Students League of New York teacher offers 100 fine drawings and in-depth instruction in this guide to drawing virtually every aspect and posture of the human hand.

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Mr. Bridgman states unequivocally in his introduction that before preparing this book he had "e;not discovered a single volume devoted exclusively to the depicting of the hand."e; Apparently Mr. Bridgman has appreciated what few others have felt - the human hand's great capacity for expression and the care that the artist must take to realize it. The hand changes with the age of the person, is shaped differently according to sex, reflects the type of work to which it is put, the physical health, and even the emotions of the person. To represent these distinguishing features, to capture the expressiveness of a particular pair of hands, the artist must understand the construction, anatomy, formation, and function of the hand.There is probably no better instructor to turn to for this understanding than Mr. Bridgman, a well-respected artist who for nearly 50 years lectured and taught at the Art Students League of New York. In this volume, a full text is accompanied by many illustrations depicting virtually every aspect and posture of the human hand. He first considers the back view of the hand, the wrist bones, the tendons, the muscles, the hand bones, the arch, and the veins; and then those of the palm. Throughout he pictures the musculature at work beneath the surface of the skin. He continues by showing how the muscles operate on the thumb side and on the little finger side when each is the center of force; how the thumb and fingers are constructed, their freedom of movement, joints, and complete anatomy as well as views of them straight, bent, and flexed; how the knuckles are formed, what shapes the fist can take and how flexible it can be; and he concludes with illustrations of the total movement, either turning or rotary, of the hand in its various positions.The 100 illustrations the author has selected perfectly define the regions of the hand so that any artist, beginning or experienced, will increase his mastery of it. Better rendering of the human hand is sure to add new expressiveness to your human figures along with new forcefulness and new interest.

Autor

Canadian artist George Brandt Bridgman (1865–1943) studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and taught at New York City's Art Students League. Generations of students have learned the principles of anatomy and figure drawing from his books, which rank among Dover's most popular art instruction texts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Anatomy for Artists
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: anatomical • anatomy drawings • anatomy lessons • angles • art library • art major • art students • aspiring comic • Beginners • body moves • bones muscles • books on anatomy drawings • books on anatomy lessons • books on art libraries • books on art students • books on body moves • books on bones muscles • books on comic artists • books on commercial artists • books on drawing classes • books on drawing hands • books on drawing skills • books on dynamic anatomies • books on dynamic figures • books on female hands • books on figure drawings • books on frank frazetta • books on hand positions • books on human anatomies • books on human figures • books on human hands • books on human machines • books on learn anatomies • books on learning anatomies • books on life drawings • books on professional artists • books on serious artists • books on students leagues • comic artists • commercial artist • construct • constructional • Constructive • copying • draw anatomy • draw class • draw hands • draw human • drawing class • drawing hands • drawing human • drawing skills • draw skills • dynamic anatomy • dynamic figure • explanatory • female hands • figure drawings • foreshortening • Frank Frazetta • full-figure • Hamm • hand positions • Hogarth • Human Anatomy • human body • Human Figures • human hand • Human head • Human Machine • intermediate-level • joints • knuckles • learn anatomy • learning anatomy • life drawing • loomis • Muscle • Musculature • Norman Rockwell • poses • professional artist • Proportions • realistic figure • serious artist • Shading • shapes • Sketches • sketch-like • sketchy • step explaining • students league • tendons • Wacom
• ISBN-10: 0-486-13260-9 / 0486132609
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-13260-0 / 9780486132600