Morpho

A great book that goes over the whole general anatomy of the body and does a wonderful job of showing you bone landmarks you can use to simplify your forms. I was one of those kids that vehemently resisted learning real anatomy because I was aiming for a specific style, and now I'm here to say: don't do that!! Gosh I wish I never glossed over learning these things. Even if you feel that you have a specific style, learning the real anatomy is valuable. Knowing the real forms will do wonders for your style because then you can figure out how to simplify them your own way. Otherwise you will eventually hit a roadblock of "this doesn't look right and I don't know why!" Get this book, seriously. It's really helped me make up those lost years.

I really like this book, but the main thing I'd say is that this isn't where you should start learning anatomy. Where the Morpho books really shine in my opinion is when you've already learned anatomy in a more structured/guided way, and now you're looking for ways to practice what you've learned. If you go through all the Morpho books and draw everything you see, that'll give you a really excellent way to practice drawing humans and anatomy, and improve your knowledge. The reason why Morphos are not great for beginners in my opinion is that there are very little explanations (it's mostly just a series of drawings with very little comment), and the drawings are in a pretty vague style that makes it hard to distinguish the muscles and bones. So when you're starting out, I'd instead recommend the following books in that order: "Anatomy For Artists - Drawing Form and Pose" by tomfoxdraws, "Basic Human Anatomy" by Roberto Osti, "Dynamic Human Anatomy" by Roberto Osti. Then you can come back to the Morpho books once you're done with these. Another thing I like is that the books are small, which is useful when you want to keep the book on your desk while you draw from it. They don't stay open easily just by themselves, but you can buy binder clips to solve that problem

drawing appendices with anatomical references

Piaciuto tanto!

I own a lot of anatomy books for artists, and this is easily one of my most referred to. The are several reasons. 1) This has a lot of drawings of muscles in action at different angles for different positions of limbs and body parts. This is different from a dry technical labelling of anatomy from a couple of positions prevalent in many artistic anatomy books. 2) Not wordy at all. A big plus for me, since I'm a visual learner. The consistent labelling with small footnotes on every page is way more informative and digestible than reams of dry text. 3) The sketching style is loose but precise and this feels like what a teacher would draw when explaining the subject. 4) It is compact, with a lot of knowledge compressed in its small volume. Easily worth the price and more.