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Tom Richardson
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I had a website with PDFs of public domain drawing books. I’ll share those and other things
An old blog is at https://figure-drawings.blogspot.com/ Books at Lulu https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/figuredrawing
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We also painted a still life
August 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I did a painting class today we looked at some experiments in interaction of color
August 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Another page from Horse Anatomy
July 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I came across this book, Horse Anatomy by Lewis S. Brown, published in 1948. He put a huge amount of work into drawing the individual pages showing the anatomy of the horse compared to the size of the human.
July 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
July 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Comparative proportions from Anthropometry and Anatomy by JohnS. Barrington
#figuredrawing #proportions
July 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Willie Pogany’s Drawing Lessons, the 1946 cover #figuredrawing #nudeart
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Willie Pogany published a book called Drawing Lessons in 1946, it is still available as a reprint titled The Art of Drawing #figuredrawing
July 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A book of drawing the figure from 1937. The photographs from nature was a big feature. #figuredrawing
July 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Loose leaf portfolio” anyway here’s another page from the book #figuredrawing #recliningnude #figuresketch
July 8, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Drawings by the French artist La Lire from Figure Techniques by Ben Duggar and Guy Lockwood. Lockwood originally published a loose Leah set of these drawings in portfolio form.

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#figuredrawing #anatomy
July 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Action sketches from How to Draw by Alexander Murray 1932
July 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Happy Fourth of July from Clare Briggs
July 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Old Mutt and Jeff strip from “How to Draw Cartoons” by Briggs

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July 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Four samples of the drawings in the book
July 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I came across a copy of this book and purchased it for the most I ever spent for one of these drawing books. It has 200 Illustrations. Originally Published in 1759. The original owner of this book took the portfolio of prints and had them bound.
July 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Saint Paul Preaching at Athens from the Royal Collection Trust www.rct.uk/collection/s...
you can see the woman on the right in the Royal Collection color image is the one reproduced in the book.
July 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The School of Raphael
or The Student's Guide to
Expression in Historical Painting
by Nicholas Dorigny
with commentary by Benjamin Ralph

One of the books I made into both a pdf and a print on demand edition. You can request the pdf from me for $5 or order a book at www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
July 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here are some hands from the Alexander Dobkin book
July 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Jan Steven Van Calvary from “De Humanity Corporis Fabrica” from The principals of Figure Drawing by Alexander Dobkin
July 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM