Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Méchaniques, avec leur explication

Denis Diderot, and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert wrote an encyclopedia titled Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts Méchaniques, avec leur explication, A Paris, Chez Le Breton, Imprimeur du Roy, 1763. The work included many illustrations which were engravings after other artists. One section illustrated drawings from which an aspiring artist could learn to draw. The plate shown is the general proportions of a man.

Artists and Engravers: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. These plates are engraved by J.A.Defehrt and Bonaventure/Benoit-Louis Prevost after J.R Lucotte or Goussier. Ghis particulr plate was engraved by J.A.Defehrt.

The print is available on Ebay.

Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol. 2 (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Human Figure Construction by Michael Gillen

Michael Gillen, Herbert Kallem and Henry Kallem published a book titled Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from Models in 1951. These images are from Michael Gillen's section on basic figure construction. He suggests drawing a line 2 inches long. He calls this the unit. For the height of the figure he suggests drawing a 7 inch line. Divide it into 3 and a half units. The top division is the head, the next the thorax, the next the knee, the last the ankle. A half unit placed at the thorax is the hips. At the top of the thorax another half unit with a sixth unit attached at each end forms the shoulders.

Drawing, Painting and Sculpture from Models

F. Cayley Robinson

The Book of Genesis, Published by Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd, London 1914. The drawings are on Ebay.

The Earthly Paradise: F. Cayley Robinson, R. L. Griggs and the Painter-Craftsmen of The Birmingham Group

The Blue Bird : a Fairy Play in Six Acts

Hans Kohl

The German painter and graphic artist Hans Kohl was born in 1897 in Mainz and died in 1990. He studied at the academy in Munich between 1915 and 1923.

The drawing is on Ebay.

Link to more images.

Zippora Brenner

Zippora Brenner was born in Russia in 1917, immigrated to Israel in 1923, traveled in the USA, Paris Italy and Spain. The black and white drawing is on Ebay

Santos Balmori Picazo

Santos Balmori Picazo was born in 1898 in Mexico City. The drawings shown are on Ebay

Link to more paintings and drawings.

Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order

Rooty Toot Toot (John Hubley, UPA, 1951)

Found this on Gavin Hill's blog.

Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America Columbia Pictures Cartoons Volume 4 / Animated [VHS] Animators of Film and Television: Nineteen Artists, Writers, Producers and Others

Frank V. Martin - Hollywood Drawings

Frank V. Martin drawing of Linda Darnell on the left and Ruby Keeler on the right. His website. The drawing of Linda Darnell is on Ebay.

Link to the Meridien Gallery Blog with additional pictures. Also paintings at the Meridien Gallery Blog.

Rolf Armstrong Portraits

Rolf Armstring was a popular illustrator of advertising, sheet music and pin-ups in the first half of the twentieth century. He specialized in drawing a lot of expression in his subjects, particularly the portraits.

Pictured are The Live Wire, The Innocent Girl, The Brunette and The Pensive Girl

This photograph of Rolf Armstrong drawing at a party is available on Ebay.

This sheet music for the song What a Wonderful Girl You Are is available on Ebay, as is the sheet music for My Sunshine Rose.

Rolf Armstrong: The Dream Girls (Vignettes)

Pin up Dreams: The Glamour Art of Rolf Armstrong