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 213
THE ARM 93 side of these tendons is a hollow bounded in both cases by a short display of tendons. The side view of the little-finger-ball is especially graceful, its straight lines contrasting well with the curved portions of the hand. In the annexed diagram the ball occupies the space between the… … Fig. 127.— The Ball of the Little- Finger. D and j), but sometimes it is crushed into a rounded form as in c. The hands in Fig. 126 are chiefly Gothic, and illustrate the conventional positions which constituted the stock-in- trade of the old artists — as regards hands. P Q R and s are Japanese. L…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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