Quickly learn to draw realistic people and characters! Learn to draw people, characters, and the human form by exploring the subject s fundamental principles with expert Michel Lauricella artist, teacher, and bestselling author of the Morpho drawing series of books. This brief but information packed guide covers essential concepts such as: Body proportions Facial features Skeletal structure Muscular anatomy Simplified forms Silhouettes and contours Perspective and foreshortening Value and shading Clothing folds. Each concept is clearly explained and richly illustrated, which will allow you to deepen your understanding and effectively apply these techniques in your own work.

Michel Lauricella received his education at Paris's Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts (National School of Fine Arts). He has been teaching morphology for over twenty years, first at the Emile Cohl school in Lyons, then at the city of Paris's Ateliers des Beaux-Arts, the Gobelins school in Paris, Lisaa in Paris, and the Atelier in Angouleme. He currently teaches at the Fabrica114 studio in Paris.