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John Henry Vanderpoel (November 15, 1857 – May 2, 1911), born Johannes (Jan) van der Poel, [1] was a Dutch-American artist and teacher, best known as an instructor of figure drawing. His book The Human Figure , a standard art school resource featuring numerous drawings based on his teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , was ...
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
The drawing is described by Leonardo's notes as Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, [2] variously translated as The Proportions of the Human Figure after Vitruvius, [3] or Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. [4] It is much better known as the Vitruvian Man. [2]
The same study redated a scene of part human, part animal figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes, first described in 2019, determining it was at least 48,000 years old.
Many of the earlier ledger book drawings contained several signature glyphs, suggesting shared authorship. [11] Examples of shared authorship are found in the Dog Soldiers ledgers, in which many of the drawings attributed to Bear with Feathers indicate that he drew the human figures, but another artist drew the horses. [12]
Fun With a Pencil (1939). Reissued as a full facsimile of the original on April 5, 2013, from Titan Books. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (1943). Reissued as a full facsimile of the original on May 27, 2011, from Titan Books. Creative Illustration (1947). Reissued as a full facsimile of the original on October 12, 2012, from Titan Books.
List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number .
Sketchbook and pencil. "Sketchbook of English Landscape and Coastal Scenery," by the artist William Trost Richards, at the Brooklyn Museum. A sketchbook is a book or pad with blank pages for sketching and is frequently used by artists for drawing or painting as a part of their creative process. Some also use sketchbooks as a sort of blueprint ...