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Print: $28.00 Download: $6.00 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.
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Print: $29.00 Download: $17.50 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 an original reduced size 8.5 inch by 11 inch German edition.
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Print: $16.00 Download: $5.00 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.
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Print: $19.00 Download: $5.00 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.
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Print: $34.00 Download: $17.00 This book has two parts. The first is a series of 27 outstandingly beautiful lithographs from three sources. 24 of them come from Dr. Julien Fau's Anatomie des Formes Exterieures du Corps Humain, a l'usage des Peintres et des Sculpteurs, with lithographs by M. Leveille. There is an additional plate of skulls by an artist who was trained in medicine but was naturally attracted to the arts. He made lithographs for several medical books and worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for popular publications of his day, Anton Elfinger. The last 2 prints were added to the English Edition by William Norris. Each plate is faced with a page of labeling. The original book was published in the mid nineteenth century.
The second part is 12 pen and ink anatomical drawings of the structure of bones and muscles with labels.
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Print: $27.00 Download: $7.50 Drawings of Paris life by Pierre Lissac as published in the pages of La Vie Parisienne in the early part of the twentieth century. Pierre Lissac was an astute observer of boulevard life and brought wit and humor to his drawings of these ladies, artists and artist models.
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Print: $29.00 Download: $17.00 This is the most complete, one of the most influential and without a doubt the most beautiful book on perspective ever published.
Every other page has a description of the principle being illustrated, followed by a hand engraved plate (in the original you can see the impressions the plates made on the page) to illustrate the principle.
The descriptions are in French but as you can see from the plates, each plate is drawn with such care and clarity that even a reader who does not know French can easily understand the principles illustrated.
Some of the plates are repeated so that the description of the principle and the illustration may appear consecutively because sometimes the plates illustrate two ideas, or the description exceeds the length of a page.
The first plates show a small human figure to demonstrate the position of the eye. Later plates show the various complexities of drawing perspective including curved figures, shadows, and reflections.
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Hardcover Print: $36.00 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 an original reduced size 8.5 inch by 11 inch German edition.
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original edition.
board edition.
