Figure It Out Simple Lessons Quick Results

With this book, anyone can grasp the basics of drawing - and get the quick results to prove it.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

Bestselling author Christopher Hart helps artists master the fundamentals of drawing natural-looking figures. Eschewing esoteric "art poses," he portrays real-life gestures, such as standing, sitting, kneeling, and reclining, with arms folded, ankles crossed, hands on hips, and more, all shown from various angles. Hart also explores deeper concepts such as perspective, depth, shadows, and foreshortening, and provides step-by-step tutorials throughout.

Thanks to Christopher Hart's simplified process, anyone can create dynamic cartoon characters right away. He has developed the easiest-ever approach to drawing the basics like heads, bodies, and those super-important cartoon expressions. Hart helps beginners apply these fundamentals to a variety of fun types and settings including animals, under-the-sea locales, stock characters, and popular backgrounds. Each lesson is laid out in accessible steps, accompanied by Chris's personable instruction.

Beginning with heads and facial expressions, Hart moves on to full figures, male and female, ideal and average, some in fashion poses and others in dynamic action.

Combining content from his three previous Figure It Out titles, Christopher Hart's new, essential, travel-sized workbook offers artists step-by-step tutorials plus blank pages for practice. Hart begins with the basics of drawing the head and facial features, and then moves on to the body, keeping in mind proper proportions, movement, and true-to-life poses. The workbook's top-spiral binding makes it easy to follow the tutorial as you draw.

Learn to draw the human figure with a two-step approach used by the biggest animation studios in the business with Figure Drawing for Artists.

"From bestselling art instruction author Chris Hart, a fresh new approach to teaching the fundamentals of human proportion to artists who are learning how to accurately draw the human head and figure that also serves as a refresher or quick reference for more experienced artists"--