Pocket Anatomy: Figure Drawing Handbook in Color for Artists, Learning How to Draw Human Body by Simplifying the Complex Structures of the Body and Understanding the Human Form

My son is enjoying it as he uses it for his Art lesson

Didn't help at all and I still think I'm gonna fail. Said it would simplify into simple shapes and only does it half the time. Or only simplifies half the drawings so one part is easy and the rest is hard

This book isn’t really for complete beginners. You’ll need some prior knowledge of 3D space and how to draw a complete human figure. It’s more about enhancing your work and giving it that extra polish, kind of like decorating a boring room to make it more vibrant and personal. To me, this book feels like a secret sibling to Morpho: Simplified Forms. It’s almost as if the author broke down the Morpho book, turned it into personal notes, and then arranged them into this guide. I can’t say for sure if that’s true, but that’s definitely the vibe I get!

Exactly as pictured. Small pocket size. Very useful reference for drawing human figure

Recently, I’d been having troubles with drawing, (I mostly draw people) and decided to buy this book to help out. This book is, quite literally, on the anatomical side. You get detailed descriptions and diagrams of all of the different BONES and MUSCLES of the body, which made me realize that this book was a bit too advanced for what I was looking for. (I realized my problem was with proportions, not learning how to draw the shapes of the body themselves.) The book briefly touches on proportions and doesn’t really expand on it enough for my taste, but this is an ANATOMY book not really a “proportions” book, so I won’t dock any stars just because this isn’t what I exactly needed. Overall, this is very well made and probably helpful for more advanced artists. Even though this book isn’t what I was looking for, there are loads of beautiful drawings of the human body filling every page that I like to look at for inspiration, and who knows, maybe this book will help me more in the future.

Great book, slowly working through it and already improved a lot. great for reference and i love the small format