Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone. Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again. What you'll learn from this book ... • The step-by-step process of drawing female figures, from thumbnail sketches to finished drawings • How to apply proportion, perspective, shading, and lighting to draw female figures in a variety of poses • Ways to incorporate knowledge of bassic muscle and skeletal structures to make figure drawings realistic • How to establish proportions for the human figure, as well as how to use the head as a measuring unit for determining proportion • Tips on shading and lighting to give form and realism to the figure