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A knowlege of anatomy is a must if you are interested in learning to paint, draw, or sculpt the human form. I first saw a copy of Gray's Anatomy in my sisters hand. She was in medical college and every student world over has had a copy to study. Much later, when I saw a reference to it on Bartleby.com off I went to investigate. There I found an incredible figure drawing resource - 1247 engravings from Henry Gray's "Anatomy of the Human Body" for you to access online. Use it to study, draw or sculpt the skeleton, the muscles that cover them and how our joints move. At least those are my plans :D Here's a link to an index of these engravings . Happy Figure Drawing!

In my last post , I had talked about an incredible source for lessons in Painting. Charles Sovek has very generously made his book, The Basics , available on the web, for free, from the very beginning. You can have a look at each lesson and if you find them useful maybe pick up a copy from his site . There are many more resources there for you to discover and I had covered a few of them in an earlier post . Line Contour and Gesture Overlapping Sight Size Drawing Drawing a Complex Object Drawing with Shadows Tonal Drawing Tone Painting a Value Scale Painting Blocks in Tone Line to Tone Square to Round Painting a Solid Form Patterning a Composition with Tone Painting a Solid Form Patterning a Composition with Tone Popping Your Lights Basic Lighting Conditions Dissipating Light Different Kinds of Light Crest Light Hollows, Accents and Highlights Color Color Values Painting Blocks in Color Reflective Color Color Temperature Color Intensity Underpainting Averaging Lights and Shadows Ke...