Many of his students have become influential educators in their own right and he is thus a lynchpin of the current revival of representational painting. My good painter friend the wonderful Sadie Valerie, lately of Women Painting Women fame, also studied with him for a short time, and has good things to say about it. He studied and taught at the Art Student’s League in New York and counts such artists as Jacob Collins and Anthony Ryder as his past students. Just in case you spend the majority of your days under a wet and clammy rock, or so focused at the easel that you never come up for air, Ted Seth Jacobs is one of the foremost teachers of representational drawing and painting of our times. About Ted Seth Jacobsįirst, a bit about Ted Seth Jacobs. It is certainly not your usual ‘Anatomy for Artists’ book, and I have a feeling that it will be of much more practical use than the more usual approach. The book looks at the forms of the human body and the way they fit together from a variety of conceptual perspectives. What appears to me to set this book apart from the more usual figure drawing fare is way it conceptualises structure as it applies to organic forms, specifically the human body. The web site devoted to the book is excellent and does have a lot of information, certainly enough to be able to get a good general overview of the approach it takes, and also enough example pages to be able to see how it covers particular aspects in detail. That said, I wouldn’t be writing this post if I didn’t think that the book looks very interesting. For that reason, this post isn’t a personal review or a recommendation, it’s more of a heads up. I don’t have a copy of this book myself, and know only as much about it as can be read on the site devoted to it here. I generally write about practical stuff these days, but I’m breaking with tradition a little here to write a short (well, about as short as they ever get for me) post about a new book on figure drawing by Ted Seth Jacobs.
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