How to Draw: Heroic Anatomy #1

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This is a collection of tutorials from Wizard Magazine. I already had some of them scanned but I am really happy I bought the complete book. The book is a good quality with hard cover, glossy paper and metal spiral binding so I it looks like it can take lot of abuse. It not only contains lot of anatomy drawings and how to chapters but also few chapters on perspective, poses, head and hand expressions, hair and shading. Overall I am very happy with the book, I am actually going to buy the next in the series right now :) If I should think about one thing I am missing here it is a complete anatomy chart with the names of the muscles. I guess, you don't really need it to draw cool looking comic characters but it would be nice touch. If you are an artist looking for definitive anatomy book I highly recommend to add Anatomy Coloring book by Wynn Kapit to your collection. It is a medical anatomy book which is great as it can explain in detail all the muscles and their attachments to the...Read more

Back in Wizard: The Comics Magazine's heyday, they had a monthly feature called "Basic Training." In this article, comic book professionals would give little 2-3 page tutorials on some aspect of comic book art, from the simple (the basics of shading) to the more complex (Mike Mignola showing you how to draw a cemetery or, say, Lenil Francis Yu showing you how to draw Wolverine). Now, unfortunately, that great feature is no more, but Wizard has been republishing them in their "How to Draw" series. How to Draw: Heroic Anatomy #1 is a compilation of a number of great articles helping the eager drawing student get acquainted with drawing the human figure.

Now, first of all, reader beware: there are 28 separate tutorials in this book, and at least 15 of them were previously collected in Wizard: How to Draw several years back...Read more