Life Drawing and Figure Art

By drawing is here meant the expression of form upon a plane surface.

Art probably owes more to form for its range of expression than to colour. Many of the noblest things it is capable of conveying are expressed by form more directly than by anything else.

The best Book about Drawing ever written! And we have almost every chapter posted! It’s very old but if you are serious about Drawing then you need to start reading it.

Chapter Index:

Preface
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: DRAWING
Chapter 3: VISION
Chapter 4: LINE DRAWING
Chapter 5: MASS DRAWING
Chapter 6: THE ACADEMIC AND CONVENTIONAL
Chapter 7: THE STUDY OF DRAWING
Chapter 8: LINE DRAWING: PRACTICAL
Chapter 9:…

Permit me in the first place to anticipate the disappointment of any student who opens this book with the idea of finding “wrinkles” on how to draw faces, trees, clouds, or what not, short cuts to excellence in drawing, or any of the tricks so popular with the drawing masters of our grandmothers and still dearly loved by a large number of people.

There are a lot of words thrown around in art rooms and museums. Below is a list of the most common ones you will hear and use when you start to show your figure art and life drawings. These terms relate to a single piece and are not genre specific.