Presents a guide to drawing the human form, providing detailed black-and-white illustrations that explore human design, including sections on bones, muscles, surface anatomy, proportion, and more.
Explains how to draw anatomy, focusing on the bones and muscles that affect form, and covering the use of perspective on the body, foreshortening and diminution, and methods of self-checking proportions.
Traces the history of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to the digital Visible Human project of the twenty-first century, exploring how anatomical illustrations have become more detailed and advanced throughout the years.
Describes the anatomical drawing principles used in one hundred masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, Raphael, Titian, and Rembrandt.
