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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.

There's no short cut to learning to draw the human figure realistically in space. What you will learn from Mr. Hogarth is in essence his own system with it's own deep-seated lapses. If you want to learn to draw like somebody else, why not study Alex Raymond and Hal Foster, two great realist-illustrator cartoonists who were far superior to Hogarth?Although his fans will disagree, if you read carefully between the lines of their reviews, they're often saying the same thing; with a radical difference in emphasis. They think it was worth it. In my opinion learning this system is a form of artistic suicide, a one-way ticket to hack-dom. I sincerely doubt that what is valuable in this book can be separated from what is artificial, hackneyed, mannered and sterile.Even if you want to draw super-heroes (the only application of this book that I can remotely entertain), you should read and work through a variety of books. The public library usually has decent ones available for free. Of the books that I've used, Master Class in figure drawing by Robert Beverly Hale gives you a taste of what it must have been like to sit in on Hale's legendary classes, and Artistic Anatomy by Richer provides more than you'll ever need to know about the human body. Learning to draw the figure should be approached as a great adventure (as all great challenges are). Learn anatomy systematically - don't learn a system of anatomy... You'll end up with a system anyway, but it will be your own, earned through study, practice and inquiry. Using this book is caking out. Don't do that.

Das Buch ist für mich als Hobbycomiczeichner von unglaublichen Wert, grade weil mir einige Körperhaltungen extreme Kopfschmerzen verursachen. Hogarth nimmt sich hier gezielt Posen vor, vor denen selbst Fortgeschrittene zittern. Ich habe oft gelesen, dass Hogarths Bücher teilweise belächelt werden, weil die Figuren etwas überproportioniert dargestellt werden, dies ist aber durchaus gewollt. Man soll einen besseren Einblick in den Muskelaufbau bekommen. Ich hole die Bücher bei zeichnerischen Problemen immer wieder hervor! Wenn man die Bücher komplett durcharbeitet und viel übt, macht man gewaltige Fortschritte.

This is a must buy book for artists,animators comic book artists,or enthusiasts of figure drawing,who have dreamed of drawing foreshortened human figuresand human figures in action from memory/imagination. This book doesnt contain realistic anatomy,the author uses his own verson of human anatomy toexplain his methods andprinciples,these have to be taken as tools only and not rules. But after you have practised from this book hard enough you will find that your life drawing speed and skill is miles further than when you started,i also recommend the other books by burne hogarth ,dynamic anatomy,drawing dynamic hands, dynamic heads,dynamic light and shade and dynamic wrinkles and drapery.Only one word of caution its very easy to get influenced by burne hogarths work,and your work might start looking like a clone of his.So the key is get inspired not influenced ,keep your own style and use this book to add to that.

Burne's book on dynamic figure drawing is an excellent addition to any illustrators book collection. It covers alot of what I expected, from drawing the human figure in a frontal view, from a backward view, even drawing a succesful image of someone tipped toward the viewer! It's biggest bonus is how proposes new (easy!) ways of approaching those difficult, yet spectacular poses that might be near impossible to acquire from a model in the studio! The anatomy tends to be a bit exaggerated though... A suggestion is to get this book, and look for Jack Hamm's anatomy book, both books are one powerful duo!