Morpho: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists): 6

Bought 5 of this authors books now for my daughter. She says they are amasing and really help her art. the way the spine is glued 1 side means the pages lay flat. They are a handy size to carry around too. Definitely recommended.

This book accompanied with the Morpho Simplified Forms book is excellent, it shows exactly what you need to create poses that don't look 'iffy'. I purposely bought this to assist in creating unique and imagined poses for manga style drawings, I am 100% certain using these books will help as I have only been using it for a day and have seen a huge improvement!

Great for learning basic anatomy for artists! Teaches you all the important shapes and structures.

Theis book is like the perfect pocket guide for simplified anatomy, with some really useful sketches inside to reference. It opens flat, which is useful for referencing, the images are high quality enough, and I had no problem reading the text. It's great for illustration and posebuilding from imagination.The pocket, however, is quite literal. These books are no bigger than A5, and are about 1 or 2cm thick. It makes them handy for carrying around, but like many other reviews here, the lack of size images in the listing can be quite deceiving. Because the spine of the book isn't glued to the cover except for the back page (I assume to allow the book to open flat) the book feels a bit flimsier than you'd expect.Despite it's flimsiness, I'd highly reccomend this book as a pocket guide alongside another more substansial anatomy book.

I bought 3 of the Morpho books(Hands and feet, Fat and skin folds, and joint forms and muscular functions) and all of them are great references and study books. I draw comics and was able to make use of them immediately as references. Very easy to quickly open and find a useful reference on the fly.The books are small, they are 7inchs by 5inchs. I personally love the small size. I've seen people mention the binding, that the paperback cover is not attached to the pages so I just wanted to say it's supposed to be that way.I really like the style of these books. It would be amazing to get more topics such as clothing/fabric from the same author. I would be interested in anything they choose to put out as I like their style.

Great book for studying the details of anatomy subjects

I do like the old fashion Bridgman books from Stoffer Bliksem, The Legacy. Lots of artistic vintage sketches. But the Morpho Muscular Joint Functions is beyond exceptional! So helpful and well covered in positions of muscles, joints and deep connective tissue. And it folds flat! More than I expected. A must have :)

Buen libro

My bad for not checking the size, yes they are tiny. young cat for reference. However, you probably need this book to study human figure. I say this because I have purchased: Proko's online course, new master academy online courses, all Burne Hogarth's books about human figure, head, anatomy, hands and feet, all of Bridgeman, Bammes's complete guide to life drawing, Stanchfield's drawn to life, Hale's drawing lessons from great masters, annnnnnnnd I still see value in this book to make a purchase. Mainly because it gives numerus examples of how everything fit together, in action. With the sacrifice of wordy explanation, this series of books can provide many examples for study(meaning actually draw these, over and over again until they become yours). You can't really learn anatomy in depth, this is not the book for that, everything else I mentioned above will probably help you with that(with the exception of Stanchfield).All in all:Not as mechanical as Bammes, but more structural than Bridgeman.Not as stylized as Glenn Vilppu from NMA, not as gestural as Stanchfield, but clear enough to get you through the understanding of human figure before moving on to those more loose approach.Bottom line is: no one book will be able to teach you everything, so be prepared to add many of them into your collection and these tiny books are worth the purchase.