Art Models 7: Dynamic Figures for the Visual Arts (Art Models series)
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Artists in search of figures in intense action—flying through the air, punching, kicking, and crouching—will find more than 100 poses of male and female models in 28 categories of dynamic movement in the latest addition to the Art Models series. Informed by diverse sources such as baroque art, with its moody lighting and twisting figures, and comic books, with heroic figures in strong stances and suspicious crouches, this visual reference will inspire any artist—comic book artists, animators, video game designers, and illustrators—interested in depicting drama. A section of time-stopping photos of actions including jumping, falling, or swinging a sword offers artists a series of expertly photographed views that would be very challenging to achieve with a studio model. Art Models 7 also presents a number of the series’ trademark stationary poses photographed in 24-point rotation and shot in the round. For artists who work in fine detail, close-ups and dramatic perspectives have been added for numerous positions and can be found on the companion disc in resolutions up to 20 megapixels.
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lunalechache –
Ceci est la version numérique de ce qui était initialement un livre. Le disque (compatible Mac et PC) contient une version PDF du livre ainsi que (et même surtout) des dossiers regroupant des vues à 360 degrés de chaque pose. Les photos couleur de haute résolution autorisent un fort agrandissement très utile pour travailler sur une zone bien précise. Les models sont des deux sexes et de physionomie variées ce qui est très appréciable et aide à mieux appréhender les subtilités de l’anatomie. À vos crayons!
Sweet Iced Tea –
This review is for the Kindle version but I do plan on buying the books because of how pleased I was with this and the Kindle version of Art Models 5. This is my first time using art model books so I can’t give you a professional opinion about the lighting or precise photo quality, but to me the photos were beautiful – very bright and clear with sharp edges. There were a variety of fun male and female poses with dynamic shadowing that provided great sources for practice or inspiration. Based on the description of the actual books (you get photos of the main pose plus several angles of that pose) I’m guessing the Kindle versions have less photos because in Art Models 7 each pose had a different number of, or in some cases no, angle photos accompanying it while Art Models 5 has four angles of each pose. Overall I’m quite satisfied with these Kindle versions and have used them for many school assignments.
Unprepared –
While I love what the book has to offer – the layout is completely confusing to me. Many poses are cropped on the page so that you only see an upper body and not the full pose. Much attention is paid to stacking and overlapping the figures in an interesting way – and often to the detriment of the pose – or the purpose of the pose. On one page a girl KICKING in the air, has her KICKING LEG and FOOT blocked by the body of the next picture next to her. It’s great to see her body twisting, and her arms, and her stance… but if you’re missing THE KICKING LEG of the KICK POSE… it’s kind of USELESS!!!! This occurs over and over again – yet there is at least one full page just of someones face. A perfectly good image for a portraiture book…. but in a DYNAMIC FIGURES book – couldn’t the kick pose have been salvaged at the exclusion of a full page face picture?????
I’m sure the CD ROM with pictures of these poses in 360 will make this far more valuable than the layout of the print material itself. Mr. Author: this book is not a work of art on it’s own. Clever layouts and stacking figures overlapping each other does not make this book effective – it makes it less effective – tedious, inefficient – or in many cases useless. Just show these wonderful poses so that we can SEE THEM. Don’t cut off legs to get a cool layout… do WHATEVER it takes to allow us to see the full pose – or you’re serving no purpose at all.
Antonio –
This is one of the best reference resources I have ever found and I’m not talking about the actual book. Forget about the physical book, it only contains a tiny fraction of the poses available in the companion disc and the images are crudely cropped and silhouetted, even overlapping between them. BUT the companion disc have hundreds of images, each pose photographed from many different angles and in a very good resolution.
にわか中世ファン –
ライティング? フォトショ加工? 等の
「不要と感じる演出が(少)ない」ので 良い意味で生々しいです
(カメラレンズの歪みも含め プリクラ機能は描き手がすれは良いと思う)
人体を骨・筋肉(+脂肪)・皮膚・毛 筋肉の動き でとらえ
解剖学的知識を 描くことで定着させよう
とする際 良い資料と思います
ROMにぐるぐる方向変えた画像があるので
立体的理解に大助かり
thirdtwin –
No substitute for a real model, even if you like using photos as source for your art the format is small in this work and the binding doesn’t open flat enough so using these pictures as reference would be nothing more than an irritation even if you do like books to practice portrait work this one isn’t really effective for that because of the way it was produced.
JJ –
Ce livre est un excellent outil destiné aux artistes portant intérêt à l’anatomie, que l’on soit dessinateur, peintre, sculpteur ou autre…. Il s’agit de poses de modèles de toutes tailles, âges, poids permettant de travailler sérieusement. En effet, le livre présente de nombreuses poses qui sont définies sous tous les angles sur le DVD. Un extraordinaire outils en main.
Andrew Buckle –
Super useful selection of models in a variety of poses and perfect for sketching and painting and using in my comic work. A very useful reference selection and the only problem I have with them is that they are all nude (some clothing on some of the models would be great) as well as being of the entire body and not parts such as closeups of the face, hands etc. The images are very large as well so you can use them and crop them in all kinds of ways to create pages to sketch and draw from.
jamesha –
I love this book. I sat thinking about what book to return and this one was not one of them. I love the perspective on some of the pictures. I love the the girl at the end of the book her poses are a like a creepy thing. It has a good mix of men and women. One guy does have something covering he area but he’s the only one but i don’t care.
laura dixon –
I think models do great job I only really dislike Dave wearing underwear, when I as an artist want to draw a nude that’s what I want to see, covering the articulation of legs and hips, buttocks, and genitals is stupid, I might as well use GQ or Sports Illustrated, if he’s going to be such a prude maybe he should do something else. This is done for the purpose of art, nothing shameful about it, I only see beauty in the body, and I also feel cheated, I don’t need censorship.
As far as everything else keep up the great work.
Jeff’s Love Child –
Models (both male & female) completely nude in various poses. No backgrounds or props. Just the human form in an all white room. Each pose is featured from several viewpoints. The included DVD is what sets this series of books apart from other pose studies. It has enough shots of each pose to effect a 360 degree view that can be rotated under your control.
This is the 7th book published, so they are obviously doing something right!
Also, the book & DVD are self-explanatory. It is not necessary to own the previous 6.
J. Morse III –
Actually, I love all of the books in this series, and I have a membership on their website.
This book is dedicated entirely to various action poses. The shots are very dynamic, and as usual, the quality of the photography is excellent. The authors came up with some very creative methods of showing various poses (shots in which the models are suspended from above, for instance) and the models offer a very impressive array of body types, ethnicity, etc.
Poses range in type from running, falling, being crushed, pushing, pulling, lifting, throwing, and others.
The only issue I have is that the photographs in the book are, at times, limited by space and editing requirements. As usual, the real gold here is found in the DVD included with the book; this gives you full 360-degree turnarounds of each pose in the book, extra poses, and shots taken from unusual angles (above, below, ground level, etc.).
A lot of Classical Realists will find many of the poses to be TOO dynamic, but the book makes up for it by presenting plenty of reference that is still useful. Illustrators and comic-book artists should be very pleased with it.
I highly recommend all of the books in this series, and the publisher’s website serves as an excellent resource, as well.
Charles Floyd Rhodes –
As with most books in this series, the models are male and female and this time there are a few action shots, a few of the models use martial arts poses. The few props in the sets are related to action and a few involve weapons. As always, the reproduction quality is great and there are a variety of angles.