Essentials of anatomy

This course on Saturday afternoons at the Julian Ashton Art School covers all aspects of human anatomy relevant to the artist in a cycle of four 10-week terms over the course of the year. Students may begin the cycle in any term, but should preferably have a sound grasp of the basic head, rib cage and pelvis masses, for example by completing a term of the Beginning Life Drawing course on Saturday mornings. A life model is present in every class, and each class typically consists of a bracket of gesture poses, a lecture demonstration referring to the model, skeleton, flayed figure, and master drawings, and one or more long poses.

For class dates and enrollment information, please see this page.

Suggested text

Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist

Stephen Rogers Peck

http://www.bookdepository.com/Atlas-Human-Anatomy-for-Artist-Stephen-Rogers-Peck/9780195030952

Other recommended references

Artistic Anatomy

Paul Richer, Translated by Robert Beverly Hale.

http://www.bookdepository.com/Artistic-Anatomy-Paul-Richer/9780823002979

New Artistic Anatomy: Female Morphology

Paul Richer, Translated by Allana M Benham

https://www.bookdepository.com/New-Artistic-Anatomy-Dr-Paul-Richer/9780994731302

Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters

Robert Beverly Hale

http://www.bookdepository.com/Drawing-Lessons-from-Great-Masters-Robert-Beverly-Hale/9780823014019

Figure Drawing for All it's Worth

Andrew Loomis

https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Figure_Draw (read online/pdf)

http://www.bookdepository.com/Figure-Drawing-for-All-its-Worth-Andrew-Loomis/9780857680983

Drawing the Head and Hands

Andrew Loomis

https://archive.org/details/Andrew_Loomis_Drawing_the_Head_and_Hands (read online/pdf)

http://www.bookdepository.com/Drawing-Head-Hands-Andrew-Loomis/9780857680976

Constructive Anatomy

George B. Bridgman

http://www.archive.org/details/constructiveanat00briduoft (read online/ pdf)

Bridgman's Life Drawing

The Book of a Hundred Hands

Heads, Features and Faces

George B. Bridgman

http://www.bookdepository.com/Best-Bridgman-Boxed-Set%3A-WITH-Bridgmans-Life-Drawing-Hundred-Hands-Heads%2C-Features-Faces-George-B-Bridgman/9780486459141

The Human Figure

John H. Vanderpoel

https://archive.org/details/humanfigure00vanduoft (read online/ pdf)

http://www.bookdepository.com/Human-Figure-John-H-Vanderpoel/9780486204321

Figure Drawing (1904).

Richard Hatton

http://figure-drawings.com/figuredrawing.html (pdf, $4.95)

http://www.bookdepository.com/Figure-Drawing-Richard-G-Hatton/9780486213774

Figure Drawing: Design and Invention

Michael Hampton

http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9780615272818

Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form

Eliot Goldfinger

https://www.bookdepository.com/Human-Anatomy-for-Artists-Eliot-Goldfinger/9780195052060

Anatomy for Sculptors Understanding the Human Form (2014)

Uldis Zarins and Sandis Kondrats

https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Sculptors-Understanding-Human-Form/dp/0990341100

https://anatomy4sculptors.com/art/

Online resources

Historical Anatomies on the Web (US National Library of Medicine).

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html (browse authors)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/addlinks.html (browse authors on other websites)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_intro.html (Dream Anatomy exhibit)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_gallery.html (Dream Anatomy gallery)

Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried, 1749. Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/albinus_home.html (jpgs)

Fau, J, 1849. The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, Intended for the Use of Artists, Painters, and Sculptors.

https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/fau (jpgs)

Richer, Paul, 1890. Anatomie Artistique.

Original French version of the classic work, well known today through the translation by Robert Beverly Hale.

https://archive.org/details/AnatomieArtistiqueDescriptionDesFormesExtrieuresDuCorpsHumain

Kevin Chen life drawing tutorial demonstrations

https://au.pinterest.com/thesullyman/kevin-chen-anatomy/

Recommended apps

Essential Anatomy (Mac, Windows and Android)

http://applications.3d4medical.com/essential_anatomy_3/