Drawing the Draped Figure : Dover Publications : 9780486418025 : 0486418022 : 28 Sep 2001 : Many art students and professionals have mastered the art of depicting unclothed figures, but still have trouble accurately rendering clothing or other forms of draped cloth. Part of the problem &; before this book came along &; was that there was a lack of concise and simple instruction on the subject, and much that was written was too vague to be helpful. This comprehensive, well-illustrated book was created to solve the problem. In these pages George Bridgman &; a longtime instructor at New York's Art Student League and one of the nation's foremost teachers of figure drawing &; offers expert advice on depicting draped figures. "Clothing is none other than a drapery arranged around a body that is beneath it. To express the multitudinous forms it takes, one should learn to express in a direct way the different characters of folds, for each one plays its individual part as distinctly apart as ac