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 63
THE FIGURE AS A WHOLE 43 very nearly at the thirds between the top of the cranium and the lower end of the whole trunk. This is in man thirty-six inches, and the three divisions thus become twelve inches each ; in woman, eleven inches, with an excess of one inch in the uppermost. In man the thorax… … Fig. 20. — The Application of the Rule. of the figure, to drop the centre a little, before the lowest of the three divisions can be made. In the back view the rule may be applied by taking the lower border of the gluteal mass as the limit of the lowest third. This gluteal line occurs, however, a…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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