Figure Drawing Books

Figure Drawings in ColorFigure Drawings in Color (book)

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This book is a collection of colored pencil figure drawings by a twentieth century Canadian artist, Cedric Fleetwood Weaver. When I saw the drawings I was impressed by the confident line and interesting use of color. In many he achieved the effect with just black and red. Included is a section step by step figure drawing instruction in color and another section of color figure drawings by me that were inspired by Mr. Weaver's work.

The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human FormThe Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form (book)

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This famous book by a classical German sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow (the figures on the Brandenburg Gate - among many other works) is next to impossible to find. It is based on the pioneering work by Greek Sculptor Polycletus. This is a reproduction of an 1883 translation of the German Atlas Zu Polyclet Oder Von Den Maassen Des Menschen Nach Dem Geschlechte Und Alter. The original is a huge book, for this reproduction the 18 inch x 24 inch double pages have been both photographed for a full page view, and scanned in sections to provide the largest possible reproductions. In addition there are full page reproductions of the original German edition.

How Harry Cook Learned to DrawHow Harry Cook Learned to Draw (book)

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In 1897 a young student at Dartmouth College studied free-hand drawing and made this journal. His drawings are supplemented by lessons from the time that he used as examples to copy. A interesting window into how drawing was taught 100 years ago and the high value placed on it as a way of thinking visually in preparation for other careers, such as science or engineering. This book consists of a student journal drawn by harry Irving Cook and examples of lessons and engravings published in a book called Chapman's American Drawing Book. The illustrations in this book could easily provide the basis for a modern course in drawing. You could use them as examples of forms to draw or even as a pattern book to copy. Each drawing is done in pen and ink with no mistakes or erasures so a good deal of practice preceded the making of this journal. Each exercise builds on the other and demonstrates a growing mastery of the art of drawing.

How to Draw the Human FigureHow to Draw the Human Figure (book)

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This book is based on the figure drawing notebook of a young student in Philadelphia in 1927 and 1928. It illustrates the methods of drawing the figure which were used at the time, and will be interesting to anyone learning to draw the figure today. 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. The book 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.