{"id":1560,"date":"2011-04-13T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2011-04-13T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T21:16:41","slug":"book-log-human-anatomy-made-amazingly-easy-expressive-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy &#038; Expressive Anatomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy<\/em> by Christopher Hart<br \/>\n<em>Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books)<\/em> by Will Eisner<\/p>\n<p>So here we have two books on drawing&#8230; one by a relatively young guy, and another by a giant in the field, published posthumously from his notes.<\/p>\n<p>It surprises even me that, while I liked both books, I found the young guy&#8217;s more educational.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious that Will Eisner is the better artist. \u00a0There are many drawings from Christopher Hart&#8217;s book that I find&#8230; less than publishable-quality. \u00a0But Christopher Hart is the first person to really make me pay attention to skeletal and muscular structure. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know why; Almost all the figure drawing books I have go over this. \u00a0But there&#8217;s something in the way Hart breaks it down that made it easy for me to digest. \u00a0Amazingly Easy, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the books don&#8217;t have the same aim. \u00a0Eisner is addressing expressiveness and storytelling. \u00a0Hart is trying to communicate the basics. \u00a0It&#8217;s entirely possible I&#8217;m just not ready for the Eisner.<\/p>\n<p>I can accept that. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got it in my library for later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Anatomy Made Amazingly Easy by Christopher Hart Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books) by Will Eisner So here we have two books on drawing&#8230; one by a relatively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,290],"tags":[466],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creative","tag-book-log-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}