How to Draw the Human Figure

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. Formerly students at the school had draw from casts and prints and studied the rules of perspective. Lectures in anatomy were started at the school in 1920 given by George B. Bridgeman. Bridgeman's classes in New York City were so large that students were turned away.

Emily Sartrain, the principal of the school in the early 1920s expressed her belief in the study of figure drawing, "Even if the designer never needs to reproduce the human form, constantlyas it occurs in decoration, yet if he has neglected to study it, his combinations will be hackneyed, his curves poorly drawn. This is sufficient answer to the question why we have established a life class."

The ebook includes all the drawings from Grace Young's notebook plus examples of the knowledge of figure drawing from the time from a self-published anatomy book Anatomy in Art by Jonathon Scott Hartley, and illustrations from Studies of the Human Figure, and The Human Form and It's Use in Art by Ellwood and Yerbury. Also included are details of Grace Young's drawings, plus a special Bonus of full color scans of the drawings.

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