Presented to the LIBRARY of the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO by ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Constructive Anatomy George Instructor in B. Bridgman Lecturer Drawing and on the Construction and Anatomy of t lie York Human Figure, Art Students' League, New EDWARD C. BRIDGMAN, Publisher Pelham, N. Y. A Copyright by George B. Bridgma Pdham, N. Y., 1920 "Dedicated to THE AUTHOR to Dr. desires to acknowledge his indebtedness prepfor Ernest K. Tucker for his assistance in the aration of the text, and to his helpful suggestions. Mr. A. Wilbur Crane CT. B. D. Introduction drawing's that are presented here show the conceptions that have proved simplest and most effective in constructing the The human figure. The eye or a mass. in drawing- must follow a line or a plane In the process of drawing, this may become moving line, or a moving plane, or a movThe line, in actual construction, must come first but as mental construction must precede physical, so the concept of mass must come first, a ing mass. ; that of plane second, that of line last. Think in masses, define them in lines. Masses of about the same size or proportion are ; conceived not as masses, but as one mass different proportions, in respect to their those of movement, are conceived as zvcdging into each other, or as ...
Presented
to the
LIBRARY
of the
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
by
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
Constructive
Anatomy
George
Instructor
in
B.
Bridgman
Lecturer
Drawing and
on the Construction
and Anatomy of t lie
York
Human
Figure, Art Students' League,
New
EDWARD
C.
BRIDGMAN,
Publisher
Pelham, N. Y.
A
Copyright by George B. Bridgma
Pdham, N. Y., 1920
"Dedicated
to