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Title: Drawing the Draped Figure: The Seven Laws of Folds by George Brant Bridgman ISBN: 0-486-41802-2 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good basics, poor illustration
Comment: This book offers some essential learnings as to types of fabric folds and falls that one would encounter in trying to draw a draped figure. While the writing is lucid, this book suffers from a serious flaw of terrible prints of drawings of such folds which do little to elucidate the writing in a substantial manner. More illustrations would have been helpful, as would have been covering close focus photographs of the draped figure as painted by some of the masters excelling in the same.
Rating: 1
Summary: This book is NOT the original
Comment: This book is a poor representation of the original hardcover book, with better representations of the drawings, printed in 1942 -- thus the one 'glowing' review, and the other less enthusiastic ones. Find an older hardcover copy and save your money on the paperback ....!
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but not great
Comment: Bridgeman is an indispensable teacher of human anatomy (even though he worked in the early 20th century), but this isn't the best book out there. The drawings are too loose and sketchy to see clearly what he is describing. He goes through the seven typs of folds all right, but they need to be illustrated more three dimensionally. I'd choose this over Hogarth's book, though, because Bridgeman's written descriptions are to the point, and at least the drawings aren't overdone. And it's [inexpensive]. The world cries out for the definitive book on drapery: one that is concise, accurate, and with good drawings. I saw one once on a guy's desk in an animation studio, it looked like it was written in the '50s, but I can't remember the name; it had superbly elegant drawings and lean, no-nonsense explanations of the 7 folds. I made some copies, but not of the title. Oh well, Bridgeman will have to do.
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Title: Heads, Features and Faces by George Bridgman ISBN: 0486227081 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Constructive Anatomy by George Brant Bridgman ISBN: 0486211045 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Book of a Hundred Hands by George Brant Bridgman ISBN: 048622709X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Human Machine: The Anatomical Structure and Mechanism of the Human Body by George Brant Bridgman ISBN: 0486227073 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Bridgman's Life Drawing by George B. Bridgman ISBN: 0486227103 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1971 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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