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Figure Drawings in Color

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 Form

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 an original reduced size 8.5 inch by 11 inch German edition.
How Harry Cook Learned to Draw

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 Figure

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.
Traite de Perspective

Traite de PerspectiveTraite de Perspective (book)

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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.

Figure Drawing

  • Bernard de Montfaucon - L'Antiquité Expliquée et Représentée en Figures

    2008 Nov 30






    Bernard de Montfaucon (January 13, 1655, France - December 21, 1741) was a Benedictine monk and scholar in France. He is considered to be a founder of modern archeology. He published an edition of the writings of St. Athanasius in 1698 and a catalog of Greek manuscripts, Paleographia Graeca,: Sive, de Ortu Et Progressu Literarum Graecarum, in 1708.

    His big achievement though was an extensive catalog of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman artifacts, sculptures and art, L'Antiquite Expliquee et Representee en Figures, in the year 1719. This was a massive 10 volume work. It alone contains 1120 plates and was a pictorial encyclopedia of gods, heros, everyday life, domestic customs, religious customs, and military actions of the ancient world. An English edition, Antiquity Explained and Represented in Figures, reduced to 5 volumes was published in 1721.

    He followed this monumental work with an almost equally huge history of France, Monuments de la Monarchie Française, which appeared in 5 volumes between 1729 and 1733.

    After the conclusion of this work and its enthusiastic reception (the entire edition of 1800 copies was sold out in two months) The regent, Philippe d'Orléans, wished that he become a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and he was elected in 1719.














    It remained the book to go to for information on the ancient world into the nineteenth century.

    Individual prints from the books on Ebay.
    You can search for a copy at Abebooks.com. Use the search terms "L'Antiquite Expliquee, et Representee en Figures ," or " Bernard de Montfaucon." The fifteen volume set will cost between 15 and 30 thousand dollars, 

















    Supplement 5 on the web: Montfaucon, Bernard de, L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures / Antiquitas explenatiore et schematibus illustrata (Supplement 5): Les funerailles / De funeribus. - Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

  • How to do Life Drawing and Anatomy

    2008 Nov 28





    New ebook, Life Drawing and Anatomy by Chuck Thorndike, 1940.

    He published a bunch of drawing books in the 30s and 40s, characterized by a strong line and simple illustrational style. This one combines his drawings of anatomy with the drawings by other artists of figure drawing to make a good introduction to figure drawing and the essentials of anatomy for the artist.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    The Male Skull, Profile
    The Skull, Facial Muscles
    Portraits
    The Male Skeleton
    The Female Skeleton
    Muscles of the Body, Front View
    Proportions of the Body
    Drawing from Life, Male
    Drawings from Life, Back Views
    The Female Skeleton. Back View
    Muscles of the Body, Male BAck View
    Muscles of the Body. female Back
    Front View Figure, Line Drawing
    Drawing from Life. Male Torso
    Muscle Chart of the Torso
    Memory Sketching from Life
    Quick Sketching from Life
    Life Drawing of Seated Figure
    Life Drawing, Female Front View
    Clothing the Nude
    Dry Brush Treatment
    Suggested Reference Works
    Anatomy in Illustration
    Anatomy in Sport Drawing
    Anatomy of the Hands
    Anatomy of the Feet
    Supplies and Materials
    Reproduction Process
    List of Outstanding Art Schools

    Paperback combining two other books by Chuck Thorndike: Cartooning, Caricature and Animation Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction), The Secrets of Cartooning - An Instruction Book on Humorous Drawing, and The Art of Cartooning: An Advanced Instruction Book on Humorous Drawings

    Other ebooks you might be interested in:

    Drawing the Female Figure by Francis Marshall and
    Better Figure Drawing by Cecile Hardy.

  • French Photographer Caillaud

    2008 Nov 27


    Intriguing photo by the French Photographer Caillaud showing forced perspective in the human form.  I haven't been able to find out much else. 

    Some work was published in PARIS MAGAZINE Revue Mensuelle for 1933 (numbers 17 to 28 inclusive), Moral, Jean; Schall, Caillaud, Brassai, Brandt et al. (photographers).
    There is a copy at Abebooks.com. Use the search terms "PARIS MAGAZINE Revue Mensuelle for 1933," or " Caillaud."  This link is to various years of the Paris Magazine Revue Mensuelle available at Amazon.com. A description of the Revue from the bookseller Autolycus: "Description: Sm. weighty folio orig. blue buckram, ruled in gt. on spine with red Mor. label gt. lettered. Pp. 710 ( Jaunuary to December 1933, complete, sometimes tightly trimmed) profusely illustrated throughout with b/w and colour plates, some actual photo plates, numerous drawings and cartoons; illustrated adverts. Fabulously evocative, atmospheric, risquee and "erotic" photos by Moral, Schall, Kertesz, Manasse, Brassai, Perkammen, Bill Brandt and many other fine photographers."

    You can search for a copy at Abebooks.com. Use the search terms "Paris Magazine Revue Mensuelle," or "Caillaud."



    Some more work was published in Formes Nues, Paris 1935.
     You can search for a copy at Abebooks.com. Use the search terms "Formes Nues," or " Albert Roux Mentzel."

    Photos by Caillaud on Ebay.
    Formes Nues 1935, at Amazon.com