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RatCreature ([personal profile] ratcreature) wrote in [personal profile] sqbr 2009-12-31 07:12 pm (UTC)

When I reviewed Tiner's book a few years ago, I scanned a couple of pages so people could see,you can see an example page here, so maybe that helps you to remember whether it was the same one, but I think not, because I don't remember him using "negroid" and such. But I am not surprised that this happens in drawing books, where also the "classics" from the 1920s and earlier get recommended again and again still. And it's not that they don't teach useful things, but it would be nice to have some updated standard works on drawing the human figure by now, that would be more inclusive. But then too often the newer ones still aren't any better. Like I have a drawing book by Gary Faigin that is really good for breaking down facial expressions, and shows you what is involved in even subtle changes, how age changes a face, but the example faces are almost all white people. There are a few others with whole faces, but all the looks at details of how to draw eyelids, noses and lips showed white people iirc.

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