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"I own the hardcover version of this book. I purchased the kindle addition, but am very dissapointed with the low quality of the image scans that were taken of the diagrams from the original text for the kindle. The drawings are badly washed out in many cases with multiple contour lines are missing. It was a waste of money to buy this version. With a little more care in the scanning process this could have been available tool for many artists, but little was given. Artists who buy anatomy books generally expect image the images in such books to be better than low grade photocopies. In digital format there is no reason these scans should be so bad other than carelessness on the part of the person doing the scanning."

Product details Paperback Publisher Oxford University Press, USA (1991) ASIN B00A07C876

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Human Anatomy for Artists The Elements of Form by Goldfinger Eliot published by Oxford University Press USA [Hardcover] Eliot Goldfinger Books Reviews :

Human Anatomy for Artists The Elements of Form by Goldfinger Eliot published by Oxford University Press USA [Hardcover] Eliot Goldfinger Books Reviews

• really needs to separate the ebook from regular book reviews. The regular hardback is an easy 5 stars. In the version, the images are a little too compressed, and although they get the point across, are to low resolution for this kind of technical book. Just zooming in a little bit on a hi-rez tablet, and you see texels and compression way too early in the illustrations, and you can hardly make out the muscle fibers, etc. that are so clearly illustrated in the original image. This anatomy book, originally a fairly large and heavy technical AND illustration hardback is a standard in the film/game industry, and the illustrations, are expertly rendered with painstaking detail by the author. aught to give these types of technical books, or any illustration book for that matter, a MUCH higher memory allowance than they are allowing these days. I was hoping this book was available as an ibook where visual quality would probably be given a higher priority, but is not yet available (11/2015), hence buying the version.
• I own the hardcover version of this book. I purchased the kindle addition, but am very dissapointed with the low quality of the image scans that were taken of the diagrams from the original text for the kindle. The drawings are badly washed out in many cases with multiple contour lines are missing. It was a waste of money to buy this version. With a little more care in the scanning process this could have been available tool for many artists, but little was given. Artists who buy anatomy books generally expect image the images in such books to be better than low grade photocopies. In digital format there is no reason these scans should be so bad other than carelessness on the part of the person doing the scanning.
• 'Human Anatomy for Artists The Elements of Form' by Goldfinger is just perfect, especially if you want to know where the muscles actually attach to bone, something many anatomy books for artists simply don't cover. The Goldfinger book, for each muscle or group of muscles, has one or more side-by-side series of illustration and photos that shows
  
  - the naked bones in a given area with highlights that show you the surface areas where an individual muscle attaches, even if that muscle is an underlying muscle that normally is completely covered by surface muscles.
  
  - the muscle or muscles in question attached to their bones in isolation (no other muscles illustrated).
  
  - all the muscles in the given area to show the relation ship between them and the muscle that is the subject of the series, even if the muscle in question is virtually covered up.
  
  - a photo of a well-toned human model in the same pose as the illustration series with labels to the various muscles.
  
  - one or more cross-sections (up to five or more) of the area being illustrated with each muscle labeled to show clearly how the muscles over-lap and lay across each other and the underlying bone.
  
  - if necessary, the model will be shown in a pose that shows how an underlying, virtually hidden muscle is important to the artist when the subject is in a certain pose (e.g., an underlying muscle can lift and change the form of the surface muscles when it is in contraction and/or the body is in a certain pose).
  
  - a series of 'mass' diagrams that may be of use in building a 'shorthand' for the muscle or group in question.
  
  - It's not just a picture book. It has a lot of descriptive text for each of the series of illustrations, and covers aspects important to artists, such as the different types of muscle fibers, etc.
  
  I counted at least 17 of these series dealing just with attachments to the clavicle, but I might have missed some since the organization is by area (trunk, neck, upper arm, forearm, etc.) and there are a lot of attachments to the clavicle from more than one of these areas. Also, there may be more than one series dedicated to a given muscle or group of muscles so that it is shown from back, front, side, and/or above, sometimes. The illustrations are as good or better than the best I've ever seen in any other anatomy book, especially ones for artists, which can be sketchy to a degree.
  
  I really don't think you need a library of anatomy books if you get just this one.
• I recently got this book and really love it. It is exactly what I've been wanting. It shows you -- all on the same page -- every muscle, its origin and insertion on the skeleton, what it looks like alone, where it falls in the muscles surrounding it, and finally what it looks like on the surface of the living model (in a small photograph). I had been working with the Anatomy Coloring Book, which is a very good book also, but felt I needed to understand where each muscle is attached to the bone. I was looking up this information muscle by muscle from a medical dictionary -- but it was rough going. Goldfinger's book has it all already! And it is presented visually all on the same page so you can see it at a glance and really understand it. The body is so complex -- it is still going to be rough going to get to the point of understanding where I want to be, but I think this book will be my most helpful resource in getting there.