The Sculptor and Art Student's
Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form
Famous but very rare english translation of the treatise by Dr. Johann Gottfried Schadow,
the classical sculptor, based on the work of the Greek sculptor Polycletus.
Artistic Costume Designing From 1940 a thorough and authoritative introduction to figure drawing for the costume and fashion designer, great lessons and tips from the author. 95 Pages with 50 illustrations by the author.
The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body and Lessons on Foreshortening Johann Gottfried Shadow's first book for art students, very clear studies of bones and muscles derived from the work of Albinus, plus plates on normal and ideal proportion of the human figure and plates on the foreshortening of the head from various views. 30 plates, a forward, an introduction and an appendix of Albinus' work.
How to Draw the Human Figure - The Figure Drawings of Grace A. Young
This ebook was inspired by the figure drawing notebook of Grace Young a student at the Philadelphia School of Art in 1927 and 1928. The school was the first among a group of women's design schools found in the 1800s. The drawings show the work of a confident and talented artist who was studying a new course of drawing from the figure.
How to Draw Hands
This is a wonderfully illustrated instruction book about drawing the hand. The text is clear and so are the illustrations.
Life Drawing and Anatomy 47 pages including 33 pages of Illustrations and Diagrams. A complete intyroduction to figure drawing and anatomy for the artist.
Figure Painting in Water Colours by Contemporary British Artists
24 Colored Plates And a Foreword.
Frank Brangwyn, Edmund Dulac, Sir William Orpen, John S. Sargent, and others.
A Treatise on Muscular Action
This 1794 book demonstrates with 30 intricate and beautiful plates the advantage of exercise. For illustrators and artists interested in action figures and animation the plates provide inspiration.
Figure and Animal Drawing Studies and comparison of the human figure in action and animals in action.
Figure Drawing By Richard G. Hatton This is an unusually complete book on drawing the figure from the beginning of the last century. In his time he was one of the most prolific authorities on the art of drawing.
The Life in Figure Drawing How to put Life in figure drawing, illustrated with photographs and drawing examples. This book is intended for those beginners who want to learn how to draw human figures for the pleasure to he derived from it, and also for those professionals who wish to learn new simplified methods of drawing human figures to make their skills more profitable. With the ability to draw human figures you will find the learning of other subjects relatively easy.
A Manual on Drawing the Human Figure. - An inspiring and useful ebook abiout drawing the figure with lively sketches showing how to describe the form. From the Introduction: "The illustrations in this book are simple very simple quick sketches. They are not specimens to copy, nor examples of how to work; every artist has his own method. Certainly these plates do not teach the subtleties of figure painting and drawing. Their purpose is to emphasize the simplicity of the human figure more than its complexity."
Elements of Drawing - Drawing From the Life - 2 hard to find portfolios of techniques and methods of drawing the human figure by Professor Edward Stiefel of Switzerland. The Human Body and Parts of The Human Body. From the Introduction "The qualification needed for drawing from the life are: artistic sensibility as to the human figure and intense interest in the rhythm of its movements. The remarks accompanying these 12 plates are intended to suggest to the beginner the most elimentary conceptions and methods, so that he may be enabled to develop an individual use of them. " -
Anatomical Atlas
Six Hundred and Thirty Six Figures in beautifully detailed engravings. Bones and Ligaments, Dermoid and Muscular Systems, Organs of Digestion and Generation, Organs of Respiration and Circulation, and The Nervous System and Senses. $4.95
Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing
Rare treatise on life drawing by Adolphe Armand Braun, editor of the popular
The Human Form in Art republished by Dover books in 2006.
This book has a series of essays about life drawing which proceed from the idea that life drawing can be
both taught and learned and that there is a short cut to learning which will come from observing the muscles of
the form and concentrate on the perfection of the line.
Following the essays on Hieroglyphic Drawing, there is an essay on posing, charts of anatomy and photographs of a young
model, Miss Dorothy Lees. At the back of the book are essays on drawing made from the photographs, and charts of
specifics of human anatomy, arms, legs, hand, feet, eyes, ears, and noses.
Anatomical Engravings Selections from two early works about human anatomy. These two volumes, one by Eustachius and one by Bernardino Genga formed the basis for the modern study of anatomy.
