Figure drawing and composition : being a number of hints for the student and designer upon the treatment of the human figure by Richard G. Hatton (1895)
Hatton, Richard George, 1864-1926 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 206
1 86 FIGURE DRAWING AND COMPOSITION its width. The different bones of the carpus (wrist) also glide upon one another, so that the whole region is one of complete though limited mobility. For the designer it is sufficient perhaps to specify only the following details of movement — … Fig. 123. The wrist may be bent sideways (adducted, Fig. 123, G) in the same plane as the fore-arm, to a considerable angle, as illustrated, but it can scarcely be abducted (the thumb sent towards the arm) at all, if kept in the same plane as the arm. And in this matter of adduction and abduction…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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