Serious figure painting needs special anatomy lessons. This book surely fulfills this goal. It contains all the necessary information about bones and muscles, their purpose, at least that an artist might need for a realistic representation of the human body.. Important also the underlining of the visual landmarks. All richly illustrated by the author with various techniques.
This is the book that you can judge already from the cover, the drawings are of high artistic level. Surely anatomy is not that entertaining, one should study well the images, take one's time, trying to memorize everything possible. I think this volume is very helpful to make it easier. Also, experienced artists might use it as a reference.
As an ambitious figure artist, I've read a bunch of anatomy books for artists, I judge this one of the bests. Highly recommended.

As an artist that is having trouble with anatomy, I find this book illustrating and teaching how to understand it better. It is helping visualize various and difficult positions easier. This book is very handy and will definitely be using as a learning material as I continue to study human anatomy to help me in my art.

A very well-done how-to book with lots of helpful drawings and diagrams. Very helpful for artists both beginning and veteran.

Thank you Netgalley for Essential Human Anatomy for Artists by Ken Goldman in exchange for an honest review. This book is beautiful and very helpful in drawing anatomy. I loved looking through the pages and relearning the body as well as practicing my drawing.

This book is broken down perfectly. It is easy to comprehend but complex enough that any reader can learn a lot. This is the perfect book for anybody at all levels and I can see it being a constant reference in my art.

This book was very informative! I will use it as a reference for years to come!! Thanks for the copy !!

What an amazingly detailed book with so many touchpoints and how each emotion changes the various parts of the face. So much attention to be paid to every controllable part of the body to get the sketch right.

“Essential Human Anatomy for Artists” by Ken Goldman is a great art book of the human body filled with skeletal bodies, muscles under the skin, different mediums, movements, and lighting changes. It is detailed on how to apply the knowledge of the human body to art and the to dos for it. I ended up really liking the book. 5 out of 5 stars.

This book was quite interesting. I have been drawing for over a decade now so I rarely read art books, but this one took my fancy and I thought it was generally a pretty good book. It talks about a lot of muscular and skeletal foundation works for art and how to reference and put emotion into pictures and details and shading a point of like I think it’s very well laid out and it goes through things very well so you can change which chat to you want to learn first and second so you don’t have to read it in order but I would highly recommend this to people. Even if you have been in the industry a long time, it’s still give you some tips and tricks that you may not of known.