I have just started my Life Drawing class and this first week's reading assignment for this book was very easy to understand and very clear.

This book was purchased for class. The content is exactly what I expected and has very detailed drawings of the human anatomy. I was extremely pleased with the prompt delivery of this book and it was in perfect condition upon arrival. Thank you!

All the drawings are basically from Bridgman though there are photos of models, accurate skeletons and other elements that make up for it. For the price I got it for, it's pretty good though I don't use it much compared to my other Anatomy books so it's not required material. Save your duckets for a better volume.

its a very useful book for life drawing, detailed images on the bones and muscule.

As a teenager, I bought this book to help me draw people better. Learning body and head proportions is key to drawing more realistic-looking people, and this book can help you along. Peck's illustrations show you different ways to look at the human body, sometimes using blocks, spheres, and other objects to represent how a certain muscle group works or looks to help you better understand how it should be drawn. He covers everything from musculoskeletal structure to facial expressions, emotions, and photos of faces from around the world. And for those who like to warm up their skills by sketching people but have no model to use, there are several human model pictures towards the back of the book to help you out. Before I took college courses and had real models to work with, I used these photos to do my many quick pencil or charcoal sketches as a warm-up for drawing. Having this book before those courses definitely helped me draw better and faster than some of the others who were learning to draw people for the first time. I have referenced it several times since then when drawing or painting people to make sure I'm getting the right idea of the muscle structure. I have used other books for learning to draw people that was more step-by-step, but this book has a lot of different detail other books don't have.
And I was surprised to find out it was from the 50's when I looked it up here on Amazon, since it doesn't really appear that way at all.