"An Artist's Guide to Proportions & Measurements of the Skeletal System"
(232 pages and over 200 original illustrations. Buy @ Amazon)
After teaching classical sculpture classes since 1996 I started recognizing common questions and mistakes students make and I became inspired to put together a practical guide to help my students. What I thought was going to be a simple 30 page guide to be printed at my local printer, turned out two years later, into an award winning 232 page book.
I'd like to emphasize, this is not an anatomy book, there are plenty good ones out there. This is a very useful and practical working guide highlighting relative proportions which are defined as the comparative measurements among the parts of the body. I learned many of these relative proportions as a student, others were taken from the great works of Leonardo da Vinci, and from reputable contemporary anatomist. I carefully selected the ones in this book according to their level of usefulness to the artist and the ease of measurement with a respectable degree of accuracy. You can go to various sources for your information, but this book will pull them together in a way I have yet to find in another book.
I have also included chapters on how to sculpt hands and feet, as 50% of all our bones are located in both body parts combined. In order to make the book as condensed and visually friendly as possible, I have limited the technical terms to those which I consider essential to an art student. Instructional illustrations appear on the right-hand page and corresponding explanations on the left. I tried not to crowd the illustrations with too much information so that students can find answers at a glance, and eventually overcome the need to read the explanations.