The face is more than just muscles! Faces, heads, and necks are rarely static; in addition to emotions, various factors contribute to their appearance, including age, ethnicity, gender, body type, and anatomy.
In this book, we describe and teach these elements. We provide a wide range of examples and block-outs to help you understand how to incorporate this knowledge into your everyday work.
Uldis Zarins Anatomy For Sculptors ® Anatomy Next, Inc.
Appearance and its anatomy
Main facial differences
1st and 2nd level block-outs
3D and live model references
Color-coded muscle diagrams
Face is an ever-
changing structure
Which makes modeling or drawing it full of challenges. Faces are rarely static and, besides emotions, other factors make them look different from one another. Factors like age, ethnicity, gender, body type and a little bit of anatomy.
Why we look
the way we do
What exactly makes a person’s face look older or more masculine? Is it the nasolabial fold? Or perhaps it could be the jawline?
In most cases, facial muscles are not the ones that define the form of one’s face. This book will help you understand the relationship between the face’s visible appearance and the anatomy beneath it.
The book gives literally hundreds of easy tips for new and experienced sculptors interested in pursuing their anatomy studies but not sure how to begin.
To me, the most helpful section was the head and legs, the head for its complexity and amount of very tiny muscles composing it; the legs for its shapes and silhouette.
The book doesn`t only teach you the name of the muscles but more importantly shows you how the muscles interact to form the big forms.
Regardless of your skill level, there is always something to learn and better when it comes to anatomy. Whether you are sculpting a character yourself, or giving feedback to your teams, finding good visual reference can be challenging.
Anatomy for Sculptors books are a great reliable resource that will make this knowledge easy to understand and accessible. There are a wide range of breakdowns from simple, isolated forms to more complicated, from young to old, from human to animal anatomy. Not only do they make the process easier, they also provide new ways of looking at shapes, structure and flow.
I highly recommend incorporating this resource in your workflow even if your preferred medium is not sculpting.
Anatomy for Sculptors books are my go to references for whenever I’m sculpting a character.
The books have all the information I need as a sculptor and are super well organized to easily find whatever area of the body I am working on. The way they simplify shapes to help modelers understand them in three dimensions is something I haven’t seen done that well in other anatomy references books and that I find particularly helpful.
I highly recommend those books to anyone looking to learn anatomy or for any sculptor to have on hand to quickly find specific anatomy references.
We used the Anatomy for Sculptors book a lot while modeling all the characters of Arcane’s season 1.
These books are absolutely amazing, and especially super clear. The way they explain how muscles interact with each other and how they simplify them was an incredibly valuable resource for us.
Even for stylized characters, we needed the anatomy to be as accurate as possible, and those books provided some much needed help for it.
I definitely recommend it, whether it is to learn anatomy, just as a reminder or to go even further in the knowledge of it. Be sure that they will be used to improve our characters in season 2!
I think that being able to explore, simplify and express your own and unique perception of the chaos is the holy grail when designing anything, also the hardest and most time-consuming skill to flourish.
This book does a remarkable job helping us understand, see and feel the human anatomy from this perspective. There can’t be an endgame book about shapes and forms but this one should definitely be part of anyone’s early development.
The books are fantastic and suitable for any artist or sculptor who wants to improve their knowledge of the human body. There are plenty of beautiful illustrated examples of the anatomy, the muscles, and bones.
The books are packed with tips, techniques and 3D sculpted models with schematic lines as examples. This is a fantastic resource for creating believable characters and is definitely worth the money because it’s really helpful. Highly recommended.