Michel Lauricella

"In Morpho: Clothing Folds and Creases, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw clothing. By connecting the underlying anatomy to clothing, as well as considering the body's posture and movement, you can learn to draw accurate and realistic clothing. Whether you're interested in art, animation, or fashion, this book is a great resource for anyone sketching or drawing clothing. Geared toward artists of all...

This small, portable book presents more than 500 drawings for 100 species of mammals, collected into categories of habitat--land, water, and air. in this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella defines the anatomical characteristics that are common to this class of animals (to which humans also belong) and demonstrates the links between form and function for mammals based on their behaviors, such as burrowing, walking, running, leaping, climbing,...

"In Morpho: Fat and Skin Folds, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. The typical approach to teaching anatomy and the sketching of the human form most often focuses on the skeleton and musculature. What often goes ignored is the skin itself--how it moves and the expressions it creates as the body changes positions. This book presents a simplified and practical vision of the fat and skin...

In Morpho: Hands and feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and feet--arguably the most popular and, for many, the most challenging parts of the body to draw successfully. Breaking the subject matter down into the underlying skeletal shapes, followed by the musculature, then skin and fat, and finally, the veins, Lauricella offers...

Here you will find the most common and useful approaches to the body's underlying skeleton and bone structure, which will fuel your imagination and enrich your observational skills as you draw the living form. In this small, portable guide, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella focuses on the essentials you need to know, creating a book that is highly usable and helpful for artists of all kinds. Sections include: head and neck; torso and shoulders;...

En la quinta entrega de sus célebres lecciones de anatomía artística, Michel Lauricella aplica su conocida fórmula pedagógica a la mecánica de las articulaciones y su materialización en formas óseas y musculares. · Cerca de 400 dibujos de las articulaciones y los movimientos que estas posibilitan -como la flexión, la extensión y la rotación- organizados en cuatro apartados: cabeza y cuello, torso, miembros superiores y miembros inferiores....

Las extremidades --las manos y los pies-- presentan unas particularidades anatómicas que determinan muchos aspectos de su representación visual. En esta sexta entrega de sus lecciones de dibujo anatómico, Michel Lauricella utiliza su infalible fórmula pedagógica aplicándola a estas partes del cuerpo, con especial atención al sistema venoso, para facilitar la práctica del dibujo de memoria e incentivar el dibujo del natural. Cerca de 600 dibujos...