Anatomy for Life Drawing

Life drawings by David Briggs

Anatomy for Life Drawing is a five-day workshop held in the magnificent top floor studio in the Chapel at the National Art School in the Summer and Winter School for the last ten years. For beginning anatomists the focus is on the skeleton, but content is flexible for those with prior knowledge.

Useful reference books:

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist, Stephen Rogers Peck
http://www.bookdepository.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-for-Artist-Stephen-Rogers-Peck/9780195030952

Artistic Anatomy, Paul Richer, Translated by Robert Beverly Hale.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Artistic-Anatomy-Paul-Richer/9780823002979

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, Robert Beverly Hale
http://www.bookdepository.com/Drawing-Lessons-from-Great-Masters-Robert-Beverly-Hale/9780823014019

Figure Drawing for All it's Worth, Andrew Loomis
https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Figure_Draw (read online/pdf)
http://www.bookdepository.com/Figure-Drawing-for-All-its-Worth-Andrew-Loomis/9780857680983

Drawing the Head and Hands, Andrew Loomis
https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Drawing_the_Head_and_Hands (read online/pdf)
http://www.bookdepository.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/9780857680976

Constructive Anatomy, George B. Bridgman
http://www.archive.org/details/constructiveanat00briduoft (read online/ pdf)

Bridgman's Life Drawing, The Book of a Hundred Hands, Heads, Features and Faces, George B. Bridgman
http://www.bookdepository.com/Best-Bridgman-Boxed-Set%3A-WITH-Bridgmans-Life-Drawing-Hundred-Hands-Heads%2C-Features-Faces-George-B-Bridgman/9780486459141

The Human Figure, John H. Vanderpoel
https://archive.org/details/humanfigure00vanduoft (read online/ pdf)
http://www.bookdepository.com/Human-Figure-John-H-Vanderpoel/9780486204321

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, Michael Hampton
http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780615272818

Morpho series (Michel Lauricella)
https://www.bookdepository.com/author/Michel-Lauricella

Anatomy for Sculptors
https://anatomy4sculptors.com/

Figure Drawing, Hatton, Richard, 1904.
http://figure-drawings.com/figuredrawing.html (pdf, $4.95)
http://www.bookdepository.com/Figure-Drawing-Richard-G-Hatton/9780486213774
https://archive.org/details/figuredrawingcom00hatt (1895 edition, free)

Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1749. Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/albinus_home.html (jpgs)

Fau, J, 1849. The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, Intended for the Use of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors.
https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/fau (jpgs)

Richer, Paul, 1890. Anatomie Artistique.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N205845 (text [French], pdf )
http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N205846 (plates, pdf)

Richer, Paul, 1906. Nouvelle anatomie artistique du corps humain
https://archive.org/details/nouvelleanatomie01rich
https://archive.org/details/nouvelleanatomie02rich

Apps

Essential Anatomy (Windows)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/p/essential-anatomy-3/9wzdncrdsl7j

Skelly - Poseable Anatomy Model for Artists, Stan Prokopenko
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Proko.Skelly&hl=en
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/skelly-poseable-anatomy-model/id976920216?mt=8

Websites

Anatomy lectures by Robert Beverly Hale
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_Yf0hghQSFJSvaPd5T3twgq8G2X6L-j8

Historical Anatomies on the Web (US National Library of Medicine).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html (browse authors)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/addlinks.html (browse authors on other websites)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_intro.html (Dream Anatomy exhibit)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html (Dream Anatomy gallery)

Artnatomy (Victoria Flores).
Interactive demonstration of facial anatomy and expression.
http://www.artnatomia.net/uk/index.html

Google Sites

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