Poses for Artists Volume 3 - Fighting and Various 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

178 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 22, 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

[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 3, people are fighting 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 especially true when people are punching, kicking, crouching, and all the out-of-the-box style movements that accompany fighting.

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 who are fighting.

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.

[Sharon Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay book of poses

This is a fairly good selection of poses for those learning to draw the human figure. I like that it offers several different body types, rather than just the typical idealized models.

[Mitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was pretty good

The poses were really helpful, and exactly what I needed! However, I had a little trouble with the pictures. They weren’t loading completely and that was a little frustrating. But over all, it was pretty good!

[Sheila · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third of 6 volumes of poses for beginning artists. As this was mostly fighting poses, it wasn’t that useful to me.