Figure Drawing

Koloman Moser is one of the most important artists of the Viennese Art Nouveau. He was important in the Vienna Secession movement and a fo...

The Art Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form in a hardcover edition, and Figure Drawings in Color and other books at L...

Standing on tiptoe I had a request about how to draw a figure standing on tiptoe. The drawing to the right shows the posture of a figur...

The animated figure above illustrates the follow through of a forceful motion. (Click on the picture to see the animation) In the anim...

Leonardo made an extensive study of painting in his treatise of painting. Along with many other subjects he addressed the portrayal of the h...

These are the ten life drawing books that readers of this site were most interested in in 2010. It's interesting that half of them are ...

Click on the picture to see the animated version To draw a figure in motion or to animate a figure the first thing to observe is the str...

Contour cross section lines superimposed on an image from a Postcard of Galathée by the French Sculptor Laurent-Honoré Marqueste in the...

A volume study of the human figure is used in life drawing or figure drawing to help see the forms of the figure. The figure is broken d...

Frank Weston Benson at CRN Auctions Frank Weston Benson was an American Impressionist painter. He was was born in Massachusetts in 1879, h...

Charles Grignion engravings of the academic figures of Jean-Baptiste Van Loo published by Robert Sayer.

 These prints from The Principles of Drawing by Gerard De Lairesse. Published by Thomas Bowles: 1752, London. 5th Edition are for sale on  ...