Figure drawing is the most essential
- & the most difficult
- of all the skills for the artist to learn. In this manual Burne Hogarth introduces his own system of figure drawing which should make it possible to visualize & accurately render the forms of the human body from every conceivable point of view. First Hogarth describes the forms of the human figure. Then he demonstrates his deep space" notion a systematic sketching order that is the key to drawing the figure with believable interconnection of forms & control of foreshortening. By mastering this remarkable system artists should be able to draw an amazing variety of poses actions & gestures without a model while maintaining the correct relationship between forms."