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Title: Virtual Pose 2 by Mario Henri Chakkour, Missy Loewe ISBN: 0-9666383-5-2 Publisher: David & Charles Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Virtual Pose 2 is a must have for all artists!
Comment: This product is a MUST-HAVE for all artists! Life drawing skills are important for all artists... I work in the game industry, often 60+ hours a week; There just aren't enough hours in the day to make it to a life drawing class. And that's where the Virtual Pose series saves the day!
Thanks to Mario Chakkour's Virtual Pose series I am able to improve my life drawing skills without having access to live models!
It's a quality product all around, but it's really the CD-ROM that shines. You open up a model to draw, spin him/her into the position you want - and draw! AMAZING. GENIUS. And what a great deal! There are other companies selling inferior product for 10, 15 times as much.
TIP: If you're a beginner to computers, there's a nice interface to help you through and gives you nice music to listen to while you draw... But if you have any computer skills at all, open up ("explore") the CD-ROM and you can double-click the .MOV files and enlarge them to full screen! That's one more massive plus about this product, you're NOT forced to go through a custom interface to view the models unless you choose to.
I highly recommend this product. It is truly rare these days to find such a high-quality product for such an affordable price. Get it now and build your life drawing skills!
- Matthew G. Cox...
Rating: 5
Summary: Bravo!
Comment: In my youth, I was an artist's model. There is a difference between modeling live, where you have the immediate and intimate connection you make with the artists, with whom you establish a trust and having your "business" spread out books and and CD-ROMS where who knows who is looking at them. I am glad Virtual Pose, a product which pays its models royalties from the profits, has chosen the path other titles in the genre have (The Pose Series, for example) which is to make some poses a little bit more modest by "editing." Anyone who buys similar reference books knows and expects to see that. Call it tradition if you like. But, from my perspective, that way nothing comes in the way of the beauty and serenity of the pose. Overexposed female genitalia is never drawn (well...in mainstream art that is...typically, you see pubic hair covering the area for modesty) Also, I seriously doubt this book and CD would have been otherwise sold openly in all major bookstores, as it is, without a plastic cover or brown paper bag. This is about artistic inspiration.
I wouldn't want to see all the inner details of the female genitalia, anymore I would want to see a very huge male "package" It's simply too distracting! Because some of the pauses were quite simply too "revealing" something had to be done. I am glad. Chakkour, somehow, was able to walk a fine line between what is artistic and what is sensual, and pulled it off. Missy Loewe's photography is attractive and provocative-a perfect vehicle to jump-start your creativity!
Furthermore...can anyone just walk into a life drawing class? Here, anyone can purchase a copy!
In this age where just about anything goes and there is practically nothing sacred anymore, and nothing is left up to the imagination, it is refreshing to be able to see Virtual Pose 2 books selling in hi end bookstores (for example), cover facing out, where everyone can see them. The web is filled with "too much" information. I guess, to each his or her own. To me, The Virtual Pose series is consistent in the sense that it does not waiver from its mission of bringing a great product at a price you still cannot beat. I was pretty disappointed in the first one. I wanted more poses and better resolution. Guess what, Mario Henri Chakkour worked hard and kept his promises. He gave us triple the poses, the models and much better resolution. I recently also found out that parts of the proceeds are donated to the Lupus Foundation. I love knowing that my money is helping the models and a great cause! Oh, and for those of you who wish to skip over the intro movie, simply press the "S" key...better yet, read the READ ME file! :)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not enough balance between men and women
Comment: I think the book is wonderful, and has many active poses which I find very useful, but I would have liked the book much better if there had been an even distribution of poses between men and women. I also would have preferred a side-by-side format where you could see the woman in one pose and the man in an identical pose beside her. In this way you could see the differences more clearly between how a woman should be drawn and how a man should be drawn. As it is the women take up the majority of the front of the book and the men the back 1/3, and there are absolutely no shared poses.
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Title: The Figure in Motion by Thomas Easley, Mark Smith ISBN: 0823016919 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Basic Figure Drawing Techniques (North Light Basic Painting) by Greg Albert ISBN: 0891345515 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rogers, Peck ISBN: 0195030958 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Virtual Pose 3 by Mario Henri Chakkour ISBN: 0971401047 Publisher: Hand Books Press Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Atlas of Foreshortening, 2nd Edition by John Cody, Ron Tribell ISBN: 0471396966 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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