How to Draw People: Step-by-Step Lessons for Figures and Poses Paperback – April 24, 2018

I'm learning how to draw late in my life, mixing several styles trying to find my own. I think my natural style will end up being a mixture of the old EC Comics style mixed with some manga influences. I think this book will help me create my own style if I follow the lessons in this book. It won't be easy, but when it comes together in the end it will be worth it.

Eric Barrett covers areas such as gesture drawing, torso drawing, head, arm and leg. With each area he covers structure, muscles, and male/female differences, lighting, and shading. There are so many practice situations set up for you to try what he is teaching. He also covers how clothing interacts with the model and what you need to consider. Love this book.

This book is informative and very helpful in numerous ways, but I don't like that the two folks drawn sitting have bu++ puddles. Nothing wrong with a little or a lot of flappy stuff back there but a little variety would be nice. And now of course my brain has taken off with the phrase bu++ puddles and won't shush about it. There's also an oddly angled dude with no neck that I can discern in the book. The angle is bizarre as all get-out and now I've got resting head syndrome stuck in my brain as well. I do think the book could also do with drawing pages included and those muscular models for us to trace muscle forms over included as well. For the price of the book, I expected more.

My daughter loves to draw, had really helped her with technique.

I bought Jeff Mellem’s previous book for my father and he really loved it, so I’m excited to give him this book. I’m not an artist myself but I can see that it’s a great starting point for learning to draw people. It starts off really simply so it’s not intimidating to start the lessons. By the end you’ll be drawing people with all the muscles.The part I like the most was pages 56-57 on how to draw eyes. That really showed me that if you don't get the eyes right you can miss the whole message of the piece you're working on.There are lots of books that cover drawing the figure, but a lot of them are more reference guides than a how-to guide. I think this book gets a lot of things right and would be really useful to artists of any level.

I have bought a multitude of drawing books over the last 12 years, and I believe this to be my favorite. What I found that I love about this book is it illustrated in a way that makes me feel like, "I can do this". Mr. Mullem's illustrations are drawn in the size one might draw in your own sketchbook,which is helpful to someone who is trying to learn the forms of the body and anatomy because you are not having to struggle with adjusting size along with recreating the form. the format of the book is so very approachable and full of great content without overwhelming you with too much detail.I recommend this book for a beginner as well as an experienced artist who wants to polish some areas of the body. not to mention there is also great instruction on face and head mapping. Great find!

Bought for son, he learned a lot!

the books is okay for someone who is looking to learn anatomy. however don't expect it to be easy. the way they pose the figures and everything and how they expect you to be able to picture the figures are not easy...this is definitely a book i do not recommend if you literally just started wanting to learn anatomy as you will get frustrated. there are plenty of sites and youtube channels that offer great explanations so start there first and then buy this book to get practice