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The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing

a Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition
by Anthony Ryder
Anthony J. Ryder studied at the Art Students League of New York, the New York Academy of Art, and the Ecole Albert Defois in France with oil painter Ted Seth Jacobs. He began his teaching career at the New York Academy in 1985, and has taught at the Art Students League and in various locations in the United States and France. His paintings and drawings are in many private collections. Mr. Ryder lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ISBN 13: 0823003035
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

About this book…

Demonstrates a three-step drawing method exploring outline, contour, and the capture of light, volume, and mass. Many of us want to learn ”how to draw“; but as artist Anthony Ryder explains, it‘s much more important to learn what to draw. In other words, to observe and draw what we actually see, rather than what we think we see.

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