Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds: Anatomy for Artists (Morpho: Anatomy for Artists, 4)

really fantastic book, so so helpful when drawing fat bodies. highly recommend!

I've been seeing this book get recommended every now and then in artist circles online and finally ended up buying it. No regrets! The explanations are brief, to the point, clear enough, easy to understand and remember. You quickly learn about all the fat placements in the body and how it works + skin folds. The book contains a lot of illustrations.I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to draw body fat and skin folds better!

My bad for not checking the size, yes the whole series of books 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.

As a Full Tenured Professor of Art, the “Morpho Anatomy for Artists” book, specifically the “Fat and Skin Folds”, is a quick reference book. It is visually impactful with anatomy of the human body. It offered cross-contour like forms to show the volume of the body. While it does not give a lot of wordy explanations, it does visually communicate the fullness of the body. I purchased this book to use in my classroom as a quick reference guide. It is lightweight and easy to access due to the smaller size. Full of drawings to problem solve quickly how to draw volume of anatomy. I highly recommend for upper level high school to college level sophomore.

I bought an order of "Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds" and "Morpho: Skeleton and Bone Reference Points", "Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists", "Morpho: Hands and Feet", and "Morpho: Anatomy for Artists".The content of these books are great and the books exteriors are in perfect condition, but...This is rated 3-4 stars for a major thing because of manufacturing. I've ordered 5 Morpho books and 2 out of the 3 that have arrived so far have both had their spines broken off since I opened the box but were in otherwise perfect condition.Both of the spines of "Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds" and "Morpho: Skeleton and Bone Reference Points" specifically were broken off. Everytime you try and turn a page you're afraid it's going to fall apart any second.Major Cons on possibly all the books but definitely the smaller ones:This isn't a shipment problem, this is a manufacturing problem. The glue doesn't hold the book very well. Only one side was barely still attached on both of those books. If you have epoxy you might be able to fix it yourself.Pros:The size of the books give you a little more space for more utencils :)Pro?/Con? (Depends on your preference or usage):For the books, "Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds" and "Morpho: Skeleton and Bone Reference Points", "Morpho: Hands and Feet", and "Morpho: Simplified Forms: Anatomy for Artists"The size is a bit smaller than you expect but I think it's perfect size for a travelling artist or an artist on the go. Something where you might have a bag with not a lot of space but could fit one or two older reading sized books in with a sketchbook and a few drawing utencils.For the book, "Morpho: Anatomy for Artists"It's about the thickness of a small-med book but the size of a medium notebook. So still good for travel but a it's little bit bigger and wouldn't fit in a really small bag, but maybe a medium sized one.

My teenage daughter was looking everywhere for references to paint, sketch, and sculpt plus size female bodies. She was using photos of Lizzo as a model for her sculpture until she found this book. She ended up asking in an art reddit and this little book was suggested to her. She absolutely loves this book and wants the rest of the books in the series. It is compact and light weight so it is easy to carry with her to school and elsewhere. It not only includes examples of plus size adults in many different poses, but it also has examples of seniors and chubby little babies.