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Learn how to draw the human figure with the practical and effective method made famous by a leading art instructor. Constructive anatomy, an anatomical reference guide for the working artist, sculptor, and student, graphically shows important parts of the human body both in motion and in repose hand, wrist, thumb, fingers, forearm, arm, armpit, shoulder, neck, head, eye, nose, ear, mouth, chin, trunk front, side, and back, pelvis, hip, thigh, leg, knee. There are about 500 of these sketches in the book, touching all portions of the human body. Bridgman 18641943, first published in may 1920 and now in the public domain. In the hand are four bones, continuous with those of the fingers, called metacarpals meta, beyond, carpus, wrist. Constructive anatomy dover anatomy for artists george b. Bridgmans superb anatomical sketches, of which there are nearly 500 in the book, also bring clearly to fruition his lucid theories of how to draw. He shows how the human body can be drawn and how its structure and movement both can be shown. Constructive anatomy kindle edition by georg bridgman.
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