This is about drawing and so all the sketches are in pencil. Learn about proportion and how it works, reduce the human body to a set of shapes and think about what lies under the skin. Different poses, how limbs etc look when doing a variety of things and how perspective works. Get to grips with light and shade, foreshortening and more; in fact, pretty much everything I can think of in an admirably short book filled with helpful studies. It certainly got me thinking about the body and how to put it onto paper, and even if you cannot immediately get hold of a real model you can learn a lot by copying the studies here. Of particular use is the first section of the book, which explains about proportion and structure, as without this nothing can come after. A very handy no-nonsense primer.  

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