>>5764864Bridgman's books are not for beginners, or even for ic /int/s (actual /int/s are way the fuck above this shithole). Bridgman never taught drawing classes - you were expected to know how to draw already. He taught anatomy for artists and had figure drawing sessions. This blog post [1] comments on some parts of his demeanor. His students, the ones that copied his large chalk drawings down (the ones who would make it), were a priori very proficient at drawing. What they were learning was strictly the anatomy of the body and how to conceptualize it's sculptural form. This is why Bridgman's figures look more like WIP sculptures than they do actual soft muscle and bone figure drawings. For those, you can look at "Classical Life Drawing Studio", a book that features drawings done by Bridgman's students to a good degree of rendering finish.
Bridgman, as a teacher, was there to really do two things: 1) Lecture the inept, incompetent hacks who wouldn't get anywhere regardless of how hard he tried to push them, and 2) nudge the ones that did make it because they would have made it without him.
Bridgman's own work was mediocre. You can be exceptionally knowledgeable about the mechanism and artistic structure of the human body, but you can still end up a talentless hack who can't do anything worth shit like Bammes. But, at least Bridgman knew how to draw and paint (which is miles above Bammes, by the way).
So, you can choose to copy Bridgman's students' chicken scratch, without knowing how to draw, and get maybe 5-10% of what he intended students to get. Or you can learn how to draw and do some figure sculpting to really learn the damn thing.
[1]
http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2010/08/george-bridgemans-art-class.html 
