Friday, June 12, 2009

How to Draw the Head and Figure - Manikins for Drawing



I was asked where to get a model head like that shown in the e-book The Life in Figure Drawing. It turns out there is a new product made by a sculptor called the Facial Feature Model.
Go to Blick Art Materials and search for "Facial Feature Model" in the search box. It comes in 5 ethnic varieties: Europe/England, Asia/China, Africa/Cameroon, Asia/India and South America/Columbia.

Here are some related products.

Plaster Casting- Human Male Torso Model Plaster Human Skull Model (Life Size)
Plaster Casting- Human Male Torso Model
Plaster Human Skull Model (Life Size)

Plaster Anatomical Casting- Human Foot Plaster Anatomical Casting- Closed (Gripping) Hand

Plaster Anatomical Casting- Human Foot
Plaster Anatomical Casting- Closed (Gripping) Hand

Also useful might be makeup manikin heads:Diane Manikin Head * Alicia * 16, or Celebrity Mr. Sam Manikin 19

















 

A manikin for anatomical studies is Female Anatomy Figure: Version 1.






And, if you are interested there are the regular artist's manikins: Art Alternatives 12 inch Male Manikin, plus this hand manikin: Wooden Hand Manikin- Adult Right Hand and these inexpensive 4-1/2 Inch Wood Artists Manikins.






Wooden Human Mini Mannequin (Unisex) 12 Inches Tall Art S. Buck Anatomical Manikin Male Magnetic Wood Manikin (7-3/4 Inches Tall)
Wooden Human Mini Mannequin (Unisex) 12 Inches Tall
Art S. Buck Anatomical Manikin MaleMagnetic 
Wood Manikin (7-3/4 Inches Tall)


There is also this manikin specifically for drawing Manga or Anime: Obitsu Manga & Anime Figure- Female.



Obitsu Manga & Anime Manikin and Figure- Female (Large Bust).


Obitsu Male Anime & Manga Figure and Manikin






Here are a couple of posable action figures which would serve the purpose:



Side Show Collectibles Art S. Buck Artist's Model male

Side Show Collectibles Art S. Buck Artist's Model female


Friday, June 5, 2009

Antique Anatomy Book by Thomas Bartholin




Engravings from Anatomia, Ex Caspari Bartholini Parentis Institutionibus, Omniumque Recentiorum & Propriis Observationibus Tertium ad Sanguinis Circulationem Reformata, by Thomas Bartholin, published in 1666.

This book is one Bartholin had been working on since 1641 to update his father's classic work with new discoveries.

Bartholin was a Dutch Anatomist who discovered the lymphatic system. Wikipedia Article.

Other blog posts about anatomy.







Thomas Bartholin's engravings at Ebay.com.







Thomas Bartholini's entire 1655 anatomy book, Anatomia Reformata Ebay.com.

Anatomia, Ex Caspari Bartholini Parentis Institutionibus, Omniumque Recentiorum & Propriis Observationibus Tertium ad Sanguinis Circulationem Reformata. at Amazon.com.


Partial biography from 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 Streeter
Published by The University of Chicago press, 1852

THOMAS BARTHOLINUS

Thomas Bartholinus, born at Copenhagen, October 20, 1616, was the son of the Danish anatomist Caspar Bartholinus senior and studied in Copenhagen. From 1637 on, he traveled through Holland, visited Paris and Montpellier, then Padua, where he remained three years, and after this Italy, Sicily, and Matta. In 1645, he received his doctor's degree at Basel. In Copenhagen, he first became professor of anatomy, which position he held until he retired in 1661 to live on his country estate, Hagested. In 1670, Hagested, with his library and his manuscripts, was destroyed by fire. He died on December 4, 1680. Having a broad education and a good knowledge of the Greek and Arabic languages, and being an ardent student of history and archaeology, he took an active part in the anatomic and physiologic labors and discoveries of his time, particularly in the discovery of the lymphatics. He was also actively interested in pathologic anatomy, and was extraordinarily productive as an author. In line with our present discussion belongs only his very much-used anatomic textbook, in reality, a revision of his father's Institutiones anatomicae (published in Viteberg, 1611, 8°), under the title:

Caspari Bartholini Institutiones anatomicae auctae ab auctoris filio Thoma Bartholino, Lugd. Batav., a pud Franc. Hackium, 1641, 8°.


In a short time, many other editions were published in German. French, Italian, Dutch, and English. Among the Italian was one in verse.

Many illustrations have been added, differing in the various editions, but few of them original. Most of these are after Vesalius, Casserius, Vesling, Bauhin, Ruysch, and others; a great many are taken from monographs, such as Stensen, Regner de Graaf, Franciscus Sylvius, Folius, and from writings on the lymphatics, a branch of anatomic research to which the author's original works especially belong.

The workmanship on the copper engravings is unequal, but for a compendium, is on the whole commendable. The illustrations of the brain by Sylvius appear for the first time in the edition of 1641 drawn by Sylvius himself and engraved by J. Voort-Kamp, whose name is given on three plates.



Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach to Discovering, Learning and Remembering the Body


Human Anatomy for Artists