Figure Drawing: A Complete Guide (Art of Drawing) Paperback – 24 October 2016

Illustrations shown in this book are not even useful for beginners also. Sketchings in this book are not in proper size and ratio.

Very comprehensive and helpful. Many people don't have easy access to live model drawing etc. This is exactly for them. Anatomy is explained in a beautiful easy to understand fashion. Hit a thumbs up if you find this review helpful

Very good for a beginner artist and everyone don't judge this book by its cover.Use your artistic sense to understand this book

very clear discription on sketching..

Very useful

Professional

I really like Giovanni Civardi’s work and I have several of his books. His artwork is second to none and his skill is unbelievable. However, there’s four things wrong here.1. The quality of some of the reproduced artwork (round about page 50 and in some other spots) is not good and looks cheap.2. I can’t guarantee this 100% but each section is not new. It’s a copy of another existing Giovanni Civardi book focused on one topic, then brought together for this 440 page whopper. Certainly the sections here on The Nude, Sketching People and Heads & Faces are all exact copies of his books I already have, the difference being they are all A4 and this book is A5.3. Which conveniently brings me on to the next gripe. A5 is not a good size as a picture reference book. I much prefer the A4 size and the pictures and typeface in this book have all been reduced accordingly.4. My final gripe is that although Civardi’s pictures are excellent, he doesn’t actually show you how to do anything. Each section is packed with superb drawings but I want to know how he got there. I’d like to see two or three examples in each section where he showed the different stages of getting to the final picture. I go to life drawing sessions each week and no two artists tackle their work the same way. Some start with an envelope of the shape, some draw the main curve lines, some start with the eyes etc. How does Giovanni Civardi do it? He’s told me what equipment to have and the difference between various pencils but I want to see his method.All in all I like his work. In fact I love it, and I think his books are great but the four shortfalls go against him. My advice is don’t be put off buying his books, but go for the A4 size, individual subjects. More expensive in the long run but better quality and easier to manage.

This is not a drawing guide at all.It is a book of figure drawings with absolutely no instructions as to how they were created.Nothing at all. Not a single piece of advice. It is not a guide or a teaching book.I can't imagine why he thought this would be of any value to anyone, it's a drawing exhibition mainly.I deeply regret being conned into buying it. If it had been anything but a book I would have requested a refund.The figure drawings which are all done by the autthor are adequate but hardly Leonardo.Buy a book of great Matisse figure drawings to look at instead.Then you can wonder how they were created - instead of doing the same with this useless and overpriced vanity book.

I’ve been wanting to start drawing again and due to the lockdown I thought I’d give it a go. This book is just right to encourage ideas and gives helpful tips.

Great book for beginner and intermediate artists. Lots of information, lots of illustrations and explanations as well - this is really as the title says a complete guide. The writer's approach and style is very clear.Only disappointment was the format: unlike all the other books on drawing, this one is in a smaller (A5? B5?) format, so the illustrations are rather small. It would be much better in a larger format.

It's amazing for more advanced artists. I'm a beginner and I found it a bit difficult. A lot of info and step to step but too much body anatomy. I thought I would give anatomy exams in the end lol