Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing Charles Oliver
Publisher: Dover Publications

Clinical/Laboratory/Field Experiences: None. This greatly increases your sense of depth and values. Critical Thinking Statement: Critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it. There is a lot to a Rather, you'd start with "basic anatomy", "basic perspective" et cetera and work your way up to "advanced anatomy", "advanced perspective", There is a Drawing from life. This can range for drawing a candle in your room to painting the largest building of the town. While the book goes into a little bit about each individual facial feature and head perspectives, you should always come prepare knowing the anatomy of the head anyway to make your learning easier (since there will be better books that will explain these aspects). An attempt at listing the fundamentals. Find model drawing classes in your area! Life drawing is a fundamental artistic challenge. Figure drawing is designed help students obtain the basic skill of drawing the human form, including anatomy, observation of the human form, fundamental exercises in gesture, contour, outline, and value and tonal modeling. While there are a lot of really good books out there, here is a few selection of figure drawing books that have helped me out specifically with building a good artistic foundation. Capturing the human figure in all its infinite, intricate variations requires both a Course projects afford multiple opportunities for practice and feedback, focusing on proportion, negative space, gesture drawing, anatomical studies, contour drawing, frontal and profile portraits, volume, perspective, shading, composition, and expression. Course Goals: The student will: 1) Understand basic anatomical relationships .