Poses for Artists Volume 1 - Dynamic and Sitting Poses: An essential reference for figure drawing and the human form

by Justin R. Martin

This book was created by an artist who understands that sometimes, you just need a creative nudge to help get the pencil moving and break that pesky block. By simplifying the human form, we hope to remove the inevitable anxiety that comes with drawing a person, and speed-up your art, over time, increasing your own understanding of human anatomy, proportions and movement.

Genres: Art, Drawing

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 2, 2016

About the author

Justin R Martin is American author and artist. He is best known for founding an active community of creatives via his blog PoseReference.Tumblr.com. He continues to share his simplified poses online, inspiring tens of thousands of people to pick up a pencil or stylus and create new art. In his heart, he believes that helping to empower artists makes the world a better place.

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Reviews

[Aloha · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I was looking for!

Getting back into drawing figures and particularly interested in transitioning from art class figure drawing to manga, I was looking for a figure reference book that was a good medium. This book is not too stylistic like manga reference book nor too traditional. It’s a perfect balance of realistic figure drawing in dynamic poses that can be used for manga. This book also contains a lot of drawings in myriad poses. I will be looking for his other books.

[Jules Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book series is a number of progressions of characters in different poses. It shows people lightly sketched out with ball joints to straight lines connecting body parts, then it shows another figure in the same pose but more fleshed out, with curved human (or sometimes fairy, or monster). This allows you to start your own outline, and fill in your own character details in a similar pose.

In volume 1, people are resting, sitting, moving, and in various poses that will help to inspire you to create your own characters in similar poses. As any artist knows, it's really hard to imagine where the different human body parts fit when you get outside the basic standing or sitting portrait style of art, so this is a valuable tool for people creating characters from scratch.

This is not a how to draw book for beginners, and in fact does not contain instructions on how to begin to draw people. But for artists interested in creating characters in a variety of unique poses (there are over 100 pages here!) this is an amazing resource to use as inspiration to create more lifelike humans, and humanoids.

I was given a free review copy in exchange for my honest review of this book. I truly love this book, and I highly recommend it.

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book maps out different poses of the human body so that beginning artists can use them to start drawing. I think the author wants to give just a little push to people who hang back and say “I can’t do that.” First in a series of 6 books, each is categorized into types of poses. Good for someone who wants to do fantasy art.

[May · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great pose reference for all kinds of artists. With a "table of content" in the beginning (a few pages of the miniature poses, in order, so you can get a rough idea of where the pose you want is) to the flipped poses throughout the book, this is a great resources. The book is huge, the poses diverse, and I, at least, found the style of the poses really helpful in translating them to my own style.