Figure Drawing

Louis Priscilla sketch of nudes on Ebay . He contributed to Humorama in the 50s and 60s and wrote a book called Basic Drawing  which has b...

Virgil Finlay was a prolific illustrator of pulp magazines from 1935 almost until his death in 1971. The first drawing above is an origin...

De Arte gymnastica libri 6 by Hieronymus Mercurialis (or Girolamo Mercuriale) was the earliest illustrated book on sports medicine....

This image is from an Israeli art history blog showing the development towards naturalism in Greek Sculpture. Here is a translation o...

Laura Knight ,  Amedo Modigalini ,  Martina Schapiro

Here's an interesting blog post with examples of how artists used photo references for their book covers, most examples are from pul...

 Plates from the small book The Proportions of the Human Figure by Joseph Bonomi PLATE III The measures of Gibson's triangle are give...