Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists, 4)

I love this book. If you are looking for a great reference book that is small enough to carry with you everywhere, then this is it. This book is small enough to set on your desk for reference without taking too much space, but big enough to be able to read it's content with out compromising the quality it's content. The information is well put togethe. I highly recommend this book.

I don't only think this book is a great book to improve your craft, but the entire collection is a great way to get an overall learning experience into the human body and anatomy for anyone looking to improve their drawing skills.

My teenage daughter was looking everywhere for references to paint, sketch, and sculpt plus size female bodies. She was using photos of Lizzo as a model for her sculpture until she found this book. She ended up asking in an art reddit and this little book was suggested to her. She absolutely loves this book and wants the rest of the books in the series. It is compact and light weight so it is easy to carry with her to school and elsewhere. It not only includes examples of plus size adults in many different poses, but it also has examples of seniors and chubby little babies.

As a Full Tenured Professor of Art, the “Morpho Anatomy for Artists” book, specifically the “Fat and Skin Folds”, is a quick reference book. It is visually impactful with anatomy of the human body. It offered cross-contour like forms to show the volume of the body. While it does not give a lot of wordy explanations, it does visually communicate the fullness of the body. I purchased this book to use in my classroom as a quick reference guide. It is lightweight and easy to access due to the smaller size. Full of drawings to problem solve quickly how to draw volume of anatomy. I highly recommend for upper level high school to college level sophomore.

This is a very specialized topic in figure drawing; however, with over a third of modern humans being morbidly obese, it is very useful information. Too much adipose tissue androgynizes both men and women. It obscures muscular definition and fills in the waist-hip ratio. This little booklet shows where the fat accumulates, placement of the folds, and how gravity effects the masses. I wish the publisher would combine all of the series of tiny booklets into a larger format single edition. I can only think that by purchasing more that they make more money.

Excellent reference book for beginners and advanced artists. Beautiful examples and the size of the book is perfect to carry in a small drawing bag. Only criticism is that they should offer the whole series for a set!@

I've been seeing this book get recommended every now and then in artist circles online and finally ended up buying it. No regrets! The explanations are brief, to the point, clear enough, easy to understand and remember. You quickly learn about all the fat placements in the body and how it works + skin folds. The book contains a lot of illustrations. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to draw body fat and skin folds better!

My bad for not checking the size, yes the whole series of books are tiny. young cat for reference. However, you probably need this book to study human figure. I say this because I have purchased: Proko's online course, new master academy online courses, all Burne Hogarth's books about human figure, head, anatomy, hands and feet, all of Bridgeman, Bammes's complete guide to life drawing, Stanchfield's drawn to life, Hale's drawing lessons from great masters, annnnnnnnd I still see value in this book to make a purchase. Mainly because it gives numerus examples of how everything fit together, in action. With the sacrifice of wordy explanation, this series of books can provide many examples for study(meaning actually draw these, over and over again until they become yours). You can't really learn anatomy in depth, this is not the book for that, everything else I mentioned above will probably help you with that(with the exception of Stanchfield). All in all: Not as mechanical as Bammes, but more structural than Bridgeman. Not as stylized as Glenn Vilppu from NMA, not as gestural as Stanchfield, but clear enough to get you through the understanding of human figure before moving on to those more loose approach. Bottom line is: no one book will be able to teach you everything, so be prepared to add many of them into your collection and these tiny books are worth the purchase.

Formidable ouvrage de référence & travail pour l'esquisse rapide sur modèle vivant, presenté dans un format compact Aussi, une rare référence sur ce sujet négligé qui est dessin du corps humain en surpoids.

If you’re expecting a verbose, technical explanation of how ya curves work— this ain’t the book. But if you learn by copying and observing, this is a perfect source of analytical, observational reference.

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Excellent reference book for the artist wishing to understand the various forms of anatomy.

I love this little book. It's quite extensive as far as images go, but they are sketched, not photographed. Invaluable if you want to know how to draw fat and skin folds on the human body. 5 stars!