Sketching Women: Learn to Draw Lifelike Female Figures, A Complete Course for Beginners – over 600 illustrations

Book Description

In Sketching Women, three professional studio artists (Kozo Ueda, PhD, Takahiro Okada, PhD and Minoru Hirota, PhD) join forces to show you how to sketch the female figure through 55 step-by-step drawing lessons.

Each instructor walks you through their philosophy for croquis sketching. Croquis sketches are quickly-rendered drawings that capture the essentials of a subject’s form and pose with relatively few expressive lines.

There are four levels of sketching described in the book:

• 1-minute croquis: very rapid gesture drawings that capture only the artist’s impressions of the form, and where the pencil stays in contact with the paper for practically the entire session
• 2-minute croquis: another quick sketch, but with more attention paid to the character and rhythm of the lines and how they help to express the essence of the form
• 5-minute croquis: a more finished drawing where added tonal variations suggest volume and anatomical details
• 10-minute croquis: more of a finished drawing than true croquis, the longer session allows the luxury of adding fine details such as the facial expression, the character of the hands and clothing texture

Learn to sketch the following:

• Individual body parts (including faces) and their bone structure and muscles
• Standing and sitting poses
• Nudes and clothed figures
• Light and dark tonal variations
• Dynamic poses
• Color drawings

You’ll quickly hone your sketching skills with this life-drawing classroom-in-a-book. The expert advice and observations, dozens of poses to study, as well as easy-to-understand notes and tips make it easy to understand how the skeleton, muscles and posture all come together to express the uniquely female form.

中文：

书名：素描女性：学习画栩栩如生的女性人物，初学者完整课程，600多幅插图

在……里面素描女性，三位专业工作室艺术家(上田幸三，博士，冈田隆弘，博士，广田真郎，博士)强强联手，通过55节循序渐进的绘画课，为你展示如何素描女性形象。

每一位教练都会向你介绍他们的鳄鱼素描哲学。鳄鱼素描是一种快速绘制的绘画，它用相对较少的富有表现力的线条捕捉到了主体的形态和姿势的本质。

书中描述了四个层次的素描：

• 1分钟的手势画：非常快速的手势画，只捕捉到艺术家对形式的印象，铅笔几乎在整个过程中都与纸接触
• 2分钟曲棍球：另一幅速写，但更注重线条的特点和节奏，以及它们如何帮助表达形式的精髓
• 5分钟曲棍球：一幅更完整的图画，其中添加的色调变化暗示着音量和解剖细节
• 10分钟曲棍球：比起真正的曲棍球，10分钟的曲棍球更像是一幅成品画，更长的时间允许添加精细的细节，如面部表情、手部特征和服装质地

学习绘制以下内容：

• 身体各个部位(包括面部)及其骨骼结构和肌肉
• 站姿和坐姿
• 裸体和衣着的人物
• 浅色调和暗色调变化
• 动态姿势
• Color drawings

通过这个写生课堂，你将很快磨练你的素描技巧。专家的建议和观察，数十种可供研究的姿势，以及易于理解的注释和提示，使得人们很容易理解骨骼、肌肉和姿势是如何结合在一起来表达独特的女性形态的。