Showing posts with label how to draw legs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to draw legs. Show all posts

Saturday, October 31, 2009

1762 Drawing Book - The artist's vade-mecum: Being the Whole Art of Drawing

How to draw the head in perspective.
Proportions of the head.


The artist's vade-mecum: being the whole art of drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper-plates, To which is prefixed, an essay on drawing.

R. SAYERS, AT THE GOLDEN BUCK, IN FLEET STREET, MDCCLXII.

Click here to see the 1762 prints for sale on Ebay.

Vade-mecum means a book for ready reference. This book is a compilation of prints designed for the student of art.

How to draw the nose, eyes and mouth.

How to draw the nose and eyes.








How to draw eyes.







The folio was influential to other publishers of drawing instruction books including Chapman's American Drawing Book.

How to draw hands and arms.
How to draw the hand holding objects.



































How to draw clasping hands.

How to draw feet.









How to draw feet.
How to draw the arm.












How to draw feet.

How to draw the leg.












How to draw feet and legs.

How to draw hands.












How to draw the arm and hand.




How to draw hands.



The artist's vade-mecum; being the whole art of drawing, taught in a new work, elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper-plates; ... To which is ... third edition, with considerable additions.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

How to Draw Legs and Feet




Two more images from the portfolio of etchings published for the purpose of instruction in the art of Drawing by Robert Sayer, Printmaker and Mapmaker in 18th Century London.

More about his history in the previous post: How to Draw Hands.






The next three pictures are drawings of casts by a 19th Century artist named Edward Oaksmith of New York.


How to Draw Hands an ebook at Figure-Drawings.com.

Draw Real Hands! (Discover Drawing Series)

Drawing Hands and Feet: Form, Proportions, Gestures and Actions (The Art of Drawing)

Drawing & Painting Hands & Feet







Artistic Costume Designing
Simple clear illustrations characterize this very complete introduction to costume and fashion designing by the founder and Director of Lipson's School of Costume Designing in Los Angeles. The book is designed as a home study book with exercises to work on. It includes sections on how to draw the figure, how to draw hand, feet, legs and how to illustrate costumes and fashions.


Print of the bones of the foot for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay

Vilppu Drawing Hands and FeetVilppu Drawing Hands and Feet

Also see How to Draw a Foot