Drawing the Human Figure – How to Get Started

By Dorothy Gauvin

When little children are taught the alphabet, they are given a tool that allows them to make any word in the language. In the same way, learning the basics of human anatomy will help you to draw any animal, because we are all built to the same basic design. Until the time of the Renaissance, no systematic study of anatomical structure had been made. Painters struggled to represent people or dogs or horses in a believable, realistic manner on the two-dimensional canvas. They all failed.

Then the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo rose like a pair of new suns, to shed light on the darkness. Even so accomplished a master as Raphael was grateful for the lessons provided by their works. Like everyone since, Raphael realised he could never attain the perfection of Michelangelo. Like us, he could only look and wonder.

But Leonardo did something that surpassed the relatively small body of paintings he produced; something that must endear him to all artists who follow. With a scientist’s curiosity, he investigated the mechanics of Nature. What’s more, he left an invaluable legacy of detailed reports on what he uncovered. To make his discoveries, Leonardo had to dissect cadavers, teaching himself as he went. We, thankfully, don’t need to go through that. Today, we have the benefit of his hard-won knowledge available in texts of varying degrees of complexity.

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