Figure Drawing: Anatomy

At the end of the course, the student should be able to: 1. explain basic anatomical relationship relevant to descriptive drawing of the human form; 2. demonstrate competence in linear methods of drawing images of the life model; 3. identify some basic proportional relationships of life model; and 4. analyze rhythm of the body and natural forms and how they exist in the whole and parts of the figure.

Basic skills of drawing human form, including anatomy, observation of the human form and fundamental exercises in gesture, contour, outline and total modelling. The human physique – characteristics and proportion; relaxed and tense human muscles; wet and dry skin; formal contrasts of the young and old; reclining figures and foreshortening; silhouetted figures.