Books like Dynamic Figure Drawing

Burne Hogarth was the artist for the early Tarzan comics- his style is brilliant but rather mannered and at times odd looking with stylised poses and over-sized feet (to my eyes). There is a lot to get out of this book however it is a perseverance test to get at it and you will be best advised to work at it yourself and spare yourself the trouble of trying to get through his TERRIBLE prose. He really suffers for not having an editor who could stand up to him I guess- the prose is quasi-accademic as though a 4th former had grabbed a dictionary and a thesaurus and for every straightforward one syllable word had substituted a four syllable obscure one. Some of his prose is simply laughable, for example:Where the approach to the figure is neither tactual nor visual, spatial orientation may depend on the total positional stress of the third form concept.That is to say the viewer is given the task of interacting with the figure; it is a case where the viewing angle of the total figure form demands special noticeThis was taken at random and gives a good indication of his style- florid, wordy, use of jargon, never use one word where a few will doso, look at the pictures, don't bother with the text- it will defeat you after a couple of pages