Anatomy for Sculptors, Understanding the Human Figure by Uldis Zarins with Sandis Kondrats (2014-05-03) Hardcover

It's a great book - but please, please don't pay the £300+ that some of these vendors are charging.You can get the hardback book via Amazon in French for around £37 (look forL'anatomie pour les sculpteurs). It's exactly the same content, just the descriptive text is in French. Just use Google Translate in realtime via your phone camera to translate the text into English.I used the book mainly for ZBrush - and it was really useful.

I bought the hardback of this book directly from the author on his website, as such, I will only be rating based on the content and quality in/of the book and not the poor delivery offered.So I have managed to aquire A LOT of art books over my time of learning the craft, and by a lot, I mean almost 130. Some of these are the typical "How to draw X" books meant for beginners, then upto intermediate and so on. Within my collection I've every Morpho book, Loomis, Stonehouse's Anatomy and the "bible" of anatomy and figure drawing, "Figure drawing: design and invention by Micheal Hampton".I'd honestly say this book sits around a 4 or a 5 out of 10 and I'll explain why.It qutie literally has nothing other, much cheaper, and much older books don't have. It has barely any simplification of the major muscle masses (Unlike Hampton or Stonehouse), scarse information on how the masses react to one another (apart from a brief page or two on the biceps and triceps in action), it shows almost all the minor muscle masses too (some of which are covered by major masses, and are not really needed unless you're doing an anatomical statuette for a medical school) and has far too much filler. A fair chunk of the authors pagination is just portraits of people making silly faces (which again, lacks important text and he could have completely cut out and put in his facial expressions book instead) or limbs at questionable angles very few people would even want/need to draw.The book does have some saving graces though. It contains a proportion chart for ages/genders of your subjects which is very accurate and on a handy few page spread. It explains the way female breasts "squish" and are affected by gravity depending on the angles and it has some very handy tips on the maximum deviations the human wrist/hand is capable of.I would really, really recommend some of the other books above instead of this, but if you really have to get it, there is probably one or two things in there that may help you.

C'è tutto quello che serve per disegnare la figura umana, immancabile a professionisti e non, per scultori , ma anche disegnatori

***Review for the 2018 (not 2014) HardBack Edition because this is what I received !!!!Five Stars for the Book itself !!!!! Great guide and mentorship for Artists who just want to better understand Anatomy and how to get drawing and sculpting correctly ! I highly recomend it....It just unlocks your creative skills, I recomment exercising along with the examples in the book as much as you can and just rewind and repeat until you get good at it !!!!The first 50 times you'll get it wrong but make no mistake, this book will help you if you put in the effort ! It's 99% perspiration and 1 % Inspiration-Talent....If you can't find motivation, this book will give it to you !!!!!THREE stars for Amazon's Delivery because it arrived with bumps, bent corners and tares.....I figured for paying THAT much for Express Shipping, it was going to be sent out with all the care but NAH........Will post photos !

I love every page of this book. Very informative and nicely explained.

It looks like an excellent book however it has two major problems. First the ebook is a tilt your head to the left to read and second the price of the paperback places it on the moon. It is a tough read.

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