The Nude: Understanding the Elements of Life Drawing (The Art of Drawing). This item is unavailable.The Nude: Understanding the Elements of Life Drawing (The Art of Drawing)

Giovanni Civardi explains how to draw the human figure, building from the first principles of proportion, structure, posture and volume to more complex ideas such as rhythm and composition.
This approach provides all artists, from beginner to expert with a comprehensive basis for all aspects of drawing the nude; including advice and suggestions for the practical aspects of drawing the nude from life.
This beautiful book is packed full of ideas and techniques for drawing the human figure, a constant source of inspiration for artists.

Giovanni Civardi is a best-selling Italian artist and author, with over 600,000 copies of his books sold worldwide in English alone. Civardi was born in Milan, Italy in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus. For more work and information visit his website: www.giovannicivardi.it.