Dynamic Figure Drawing Review

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(More customer reviews)Subtlety is certainly not the strong point of this book. If you want realistic figures, look elsewhere like the Barcsay anatomy book. DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING doesn't explore the nuances of quiet poses or the beauty in overweight, underweight, or aged figures.
But if you aspire to draw or paint powerful, idealistic, and expressionistic figures, combine the lessons of this book with drawing from athletic models. If you're into Michelangelo with his use of larger-than-life figures that use exaggerated poses and anatomy to convey strong emotion, you'll like this book.
After practicing the lessons inside the book, you'll be able to spot and draw them better when you draw from a model. Your powerful figures will have more authority to them. And with enough figure drawing under your belt, plus what you've learned from this book, you'll be able to draw figures out of your head in any position you want them in.
The Disney animated feature "Tarzan" was obviously inspired by Burne Hogarth's version of the comic strip "Tarzan." The animators learned many lessons from Hogarth, including foreshortening and dynamic poses and anatomy. I'll bet this book was an important reference to whoever worked on that film.

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This powerful book offers a systematic approach to rendering action figures that seem to leap off the page.

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Child on His Knees Review

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(More customer reviews)The Child On His Knees by Mary Dixon Thayer was originally published back in 1926 by the MacMillan Company and now is available again from Roman Catholic Books [...]. It is filled with beautiful poems and prayers to Our Lord and Our Lady that is appropriate for all ages young and old but geared toward children. All the poems are so lovely such as the following:
"If Only"
I wish I'd been a child, dear God,
When You were little too!
O! Think of all the lovely things
We would have thought to do!
Perhaps I would have lived across
The street, and everyday
Perhaps You would have asked me to
Come over, God, and play?
Perhaps You would have taught me how
To saw up wood or clean
The shop or build a little house? --
What fun that would have been!
And then perhaps when we had worked
At that for quite a while,
Your Mother would have come right in
And kissed us with a smile!
O! If I'd only been a child
When You were little too!
Just think, dear God, of all the things
We would have thought to do!
The End
Buy this and you will not be disappointed! A grandmother of 12 called this title to the attention of RCB publishers, and lent it to them for reprinting. I thank this grandmother immensely for bringing this classic back to print and for helping me make it a staple in my homeschooling curriculum for my children.


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