Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

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From the creator of the classic Human Anatomy for Artists comes this user-friendly reference guide featuring over five hundred original drawings and over seventy photographs.
Designed for painters, sculptors, and illustrators who use animal imagery in their work, Animal Anatomy for Artists offers thorough, in-depth information about the most regularly depicted animals, presented in a logical and easily understood format for artists–whether beginner or accomplished professional. The book makes a speciality of the forms created by muscles and bones, giving artists a a very powerful three-dimensional understanding of the final, complex outer surface of the animal. Goldfinger not only covers the anatomy of the more common animals, such as the horse, dog, cat, cow, pig, squirrel, and rabbit, but also the anatomy of a large number of wild species, including the lion, giraffe, deer, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, elephant, gorilla, sea lion, and bear. Included are drawings of skeletons and how they move at the joints, individual muscles showing their attachments at the skeleton, muscles of all the animal, cross sections, photographs of live animals, and silhouettes of related animals comparing their shapes and proportions. He offers a new and innovative section at the basic body plan of four-legged animals, giving the reader a a very powerful conceptual understanding of overall animal structure to which the main points of individual animals can then be applied. The chapter on birds covers the skeleton, muscles and feather patterns. The appendix presents photographs of skulls with magnificent horns and antlers and a section on major surface veins.
Incredibly thorough, packed with very important information, Animal Anatomy for Artists is a definitive reference work, an very important book for everyone who depicts animals in their art.

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