As a beginner I think Michael Hampton's book is fantastic. I've been working my way through his book page by page, section by section, and he builds solid fundamentals and provides a really good "here's form drawings, here's dynamic poses, here's adding volume, let's look at a skeleton, now the muscles" building blocks so not only do you get better you build a better understanding of how the body fits together. Haven't read any of the others, but if you suck at drawing people and want to get better without just focusing on hands and feet and faces, Hampton's book is worth its weight in gold.
For me personally, Michael Hamptons book is the best, Loomis's figure drawing book was just too complex and not that well explained imo, it just seems to have fancy drawings with little to no guidance of how to get to that point. Its like one of those step 1 draw a line and step 2 draw a full rendered human. Might be an unpopular opinion but yeah, the only value i got from it was the proportions and basic skeleton. Havent tried his head and hands book but I'll go for it. Also I hate to say this because you really should support these teachers but if you are really broke and desperate to learn... figure drawing design and invention as well as figure drawing for all its worth and how to draw the head and hands can be downloaded as pdfs from google for free.
@@janellecande Michael hamptons book is so much better I think. It shows you the shape and basic form of pretty much every major mass and minor mass and if you already know basic forms and volumes then its definitely the most helpful in terms of learning basic or even advanced anatomy. I like loomis's stuff with the skeleton but he doesnt really have anything for anatomy practice tbh.
It's not that Loomis is a bad book per say. It's just marketed by the art community incorrectly. It is not a beginners book. You need your fundamentals down to really get it.
I will say that it's alot more helpful to have the book in physical form when it comes to art & drawing books. I would NEVER convert pdf pages to jpg & printed them off myself though 👀🤥
Thanks for the nice reviews, I have all three books and like them a lot too. FYI, Michel Lauricella sutied at Paris Beaux-Arts National School. Being french is first name is pronounced like "Michelle" in english , and cell in his lastname is pronounced like "cell" in english.
I'm going to buy these books from a used bookstore so not only you don't get any of the money through an affiliate link but the artist sees no money either cuz that's the way the ghost rolls
I would just watch the video loomis method because I bought his book it's extremely hard to understand in the way it's written . there's no exercises or anything so if you're a beginner you're not going to know what he's talking about
I have 4 of the morpho anatomy books but I don't know how to use the books input into actual practice, how do I do that? Some of the books barely have words.
Strange how there are no black or asian heads in Loomis' books 🤔 As someone once pointed out to me, just because he's an old geaser from before modern culture doesn't make him the cream of the crop. Better to just use Morpho and or youtube tutorials than that old racist (by modern standards, he was probably a nice teacher. But it's better to learn from someone who actually teaches diversity in art with contemporary understanding.)
I don't think aisan, black or any race's anatomy has such a major difference that it needs it's own category, plus it's a beginner's book so it shouldn't really have detailed difference in races. PS: im not saying that being white is the default form of a human. im just saying that a beginners book shouldn't cover minute details.
@@CVM5LVT I agree. Since it's for beginners you gotta make it simple for a beginner so they don't feel overwhelmed if they get overwhelmed they'll quit or fail
@@CVM5LVT That's literally what he wants to point out. The author of the book not showing different "racial groups" and people like you not noticing HOW IMPORTANT that is are part of the problem. Body masses are distributed a bit different amongst different human groups, most Chinese women don't have the same body types as Indian women, afrocolombian wom3n or Congolese wom3n. In fact if we dig dipper Congolese, cameroonese and Ethiopian wom3n doesn't have the same body type and face structure... You just need to analyze how even 20 years ago people would go through hell and back just to get the huge variety of monolid eyes, different types of black African facial structures, afro hair, skin tones... etc right while drawing. All this just made it more clear that white sprmcy didn't fade away, it destroyed info about any other human group that wasn't "ar1an white". Books like this only add to that mess... I think you should educate yourself a bit about this. Human beings shouldn't need to learn from one standardized version of their own species and then make an EXTRA EFFORT to draw "everyone else". Is that simple.
@@SantaceBagheera actually if you read the book. The author does tell you play around with proportions and bone structure to get different looks. There is no said...extra effort.
@@gtrrohit5078 that doesnt change any of the words I said. Thats doesn't change the fact that, non white people have been forced to "play around" to get things that white people got with way less effort. Such as being the standard for everything including drawing tips.
