Heinrich Lautensack -Male and Female Proportions

 Front view - male skeleton, male figure and proportional mass drawing of a man,

Side view - male skeleton, male figure and proportional mass drawing of a man

Heinrich Lautensack wrote a treatise on perpective,  Des Circkels und Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectiva und Proportion der Menscher, which owed much to Durer. The entire book can be viewed online at Digitale Bibliothek - Munchen.

Proportions of the female body, front and side views, back and side views.

Proportions of the male body, front and side views, back and side views.

 The female body divided into eight parts, the male body divided into eight parts.

The following information is from The Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical By Michael Bryan

LAUTENSACK, Henry, [or Heinrich.] This old German engraver is miscalled, by Mr. Strutt, Hans, or John. He was born at Nuremberg about the year 1506, and was the son of Paulus Lautensack, an obscure painter, who taught him the rudiments of design. He engraved some plates in the style of Sebald Beham, though very inferior to him. He usually marked his prints with a cipher composed of the initials H. L. on a tablet, with an instrument resembling a graver, and the date.

He is said to have engraved on wood. [With regard to this artist, real or supposed, the inquirer should consult Bartsch, Brulliot, Nagler, and others that they indicate, as there is much obscurity about him and his works. Some think that Heinrich and Hans are one. Zani says he died about 1590. The word leytzen is inscribed on some of the prints attributed to him: this is a subject for German etymologists.]

A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, from the revival of the art under Cimabue ... to the present time: with the ciphers, monograms, and marks, used by each engraver

The History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts By Ludwig Choulant, Mortimer Frank, Fielding Hudson Garrison, Edward Clark Street has this to say about Heinrich Lautensack:

Heinrich Lautensack: Desz Circkelsz vnd Richtscheyts, auch der Perspectina, vnd Proportion der Menschen vnd Rosse, kurtze, doch griindtliche vnderweisung, desz rechten gebrauchs. Mit viel schonen Figuren, aller anfahenden Jugendt, vnnd andern liebhabern dieser Kunst, als Goldschmiden, Malern, Bildhauwern, Steinmetzen, Schreinern, etc. eigentiich furgebildet, vormals im Truck nie gesehen, sonder jetzunders von neuvxn an tag gegeben, Durch etc. Gedruckt zu Frankfurt am Mayn bey Egenolff Emmel, Jn verlegung Simonis Schambergers. Jm Jahr, M.D.C.XVIII, colophon: Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, Jm Jahr 1618, folio.

Contains 4 and 54 pages with many woodcuts printed in the text; the third part of the book dealing with the proportions begins on page 326 and contains many woodcuts, which, however, are smaller than Diirer's. On page 51a the text on the proportions of the bodies of horses begins, illustrated by three woodcuts. It has been published_before at Frankfort on the Main by G. Rabe, S. Feyerabend, and H. Lautensack, in 1564. folio. Weigel: No. 8545, 19427. The author, on the title-page, calls himself a goldsmith and painter of Frankfort on the Main.

History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in Its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts

Albrecht Durer: Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion some of the plates at the NIH website.

The Art Student's Guide To The Proportions Of The Human Form

Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) On Human Proportion

A few more images at How to Draw a Volume Study of the Human Figure  

Leonardo da Vinci - Trattato della pittura. Studies of Proportion

Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura.

MILANO, SOCIETY OF Tipografica Classic Italian, 1804.

CAP. CCCI.

A fare una figura nel muro di 12 braccia, che apparisca d'altezza di 24.

Se vuoi far figura o altra cosa, che apparisca d' altezza di 24 braccia, farai cosi. Figura prima la parete M. N. ( Fig. 48. ) con la metà dell' uomo che vuoi fare , di poi l'altra metà farai nella volta M. R. Ma fa prima su '1 piano d' una sala la parete della forma che sta il muro con la volta dove tu hai a fare la tua figura, di poi farai dietro a essa parete la figura disegnata in profilo di che grandezza ti piace, e tira tutte le tue linee al punto F. e nel modo ch' elle si tagliano su la parete N. R. così la figurerai su l muro che ha similitudine con la parete, e arai tutte l'altezze e sporti della figura e le larghezze, ovvero grossezze che si ritrovano nel muro dritto M. N. farai Ja sua propria forma, perchè nel fuggir del muro la figura diminuisce per se medesima . La figura che va nella volta ti bisogna diminuirla, come se ella fusse dritta, la quale diminuzione ti bisogna fare in su una sala ben piana, e lì sarà la figura, che leverai dalla parete W. R. con le sue vere grossezze, e ridiminuirle in una parete di rilievo, e fia buon modo.

This is a description of how to reduce a figure, in this case from 24 hands high to half that size, or twelve hands high.

First you find the height of the smaller wall by locating the center of the large figure.  The line AM describes this. Then using the points as they pass through the arc you can reduce the figure in correct proportions.

The image is from Henri Godts Librairie.

Leonardo. Dagli studi di proporzioni al Trattato della Pittura (Leonardo. From studies of proportion to the Treatise on Painting)

di Pietro C. Marani e Maria Teresa Fiorio

Google Books Edition.

Edition at the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana, at the Internet Archive.

LEONARDO DA VINCI'S TRATTATO DELLA PITTURA. TREATISE ON PAINTING. ABIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED EDITIONS 1651-1956 BASED ON THE COMPLETECOLLECTION IN THE ELMER BELT LIBRARY OF VINCIANA

Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci (Italian Edition)


Trattato della pittura


Trattato Della Pittura [Preceded by a Life of the Author by C. Amoretti]. (Italian Edition)
Related book at Google Books, Trattato della pittura [preceded by a life of the author by C. Amoretti]. By Carlo Amoretti

Images from Leonardo's books at ExLibris Mario Taddei.

Other images at The University of Rochester.

 
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings

Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

How to Draw People - Harriet "Petey" Weaver

Body Proportions

Harriet "Petey" Weaver published a book titled Cartooning Plus Good Drawing in 1939.

She must also be the same person who was at the time the first woman ranger in the California Division of Parks. She authored a book about the parks, THEM WERE THE DAYS Early Days at Big Basin, Richardson Grove, Seacliff Beach & Big Sur by Harriett "Petey" Weaver, CSPRA's Honorary Ranger 1971. There is a film, FIRELIGHT SONG, being developed about her.

Here is a cartoon by Harriet "Petey" Weaver of the Park Service which shows a view of the Big Basin Redwood Park in California which seems to prove by its style that they are one and the same.


Analysis of Form

Construction of the Head











Facial Expression

Problems of Characterization











Cartooning Plus Good Drawing at Amazon.com,
Another copy Cartooning plus good drawing,



Her work as a cartoonist is mentioned in Women and the Comics by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode

Other cartoon books include:
Weaver, Harriett E. ["Petey"]. Cartooning Sports. Worcester, MA: Davis Press, 1949.

Other examples of her work:
How to Draw Action
How to Draw Heads


How to draw cartoons at Figure-Drawings.com:

The Course of Cartooning - By Raye Burns


The All American Art of Cartooning - By Bert Cholet

Amazon cartooning books.