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A guide to books and online resources about different aspects of drawing including perspective, color, the figure, and more.
Anatomy Online Exhibition
- Dream Anatomy - U.S. National Library of MedicineDrawn mainly from the collections of the National Library of Medicine, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present.
Figure Drawing Technique
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- The Figure Drawing LabIntended as a resource for artists and art students who work with the human form, this site focuses on accepted conventions of figure drawing that have been used to model the figure since antiquity.
Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form by Call Number: NC765 .G64 2010
The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition by Call Number: NC765 .R94 2000
The Figurative Artist's Handbook: A Contemporary Guide to Figure Drawing, Painting, and Composition by Call Number: NC765 .Z43 2016
The Figure in Art
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Painting People: Figure Painting Today by Call Number: N7575 .M85 2006Includes more than 200 reproductions.
Bodies of Work : Contemporary Figurative Painting by Call Number: ND1290 .D45 2015
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man by Call Number: NC257.L4 A4 2010- Twenty Figure Painters and How They Work byCall Number: ND1292 .T83 1979
Anatomy Books & Videos
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- The Lectures of Robert Beverly HaleStreaming video
Also available in DVD
A series of ten lectures by the late Robert Beverly Hale on figure drawing and artistic anatomy. Hale demonstrates the basic structure, proportions, anatomical details, function and renderings of the human figure, by way of the human skeleton and step-by-step drawings. Hale is considered the foremost teacher of artistic anatomy in America. 
Human Anatomy for Artists by Call Number: NC760 .S98 2011
Dream Anatomy by Call Number: NC760.S37 2006Also freely available online as an e-book from the National Library of Medicine.
Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach to Discovering, Learning and Remembering the Body by Call Number: NC760 .A69 2007
Anatomy for the Artist: A Detailed Portrayal of the Human Body for the Artist in 142 Full-Page Plates by Call Number: NC760 .B37 2011
Drawing the Human Form: Methods, Sources, Concepts by Call Number: NC765 .B39 1986Drawing methods in the form of exercises.
Charles Bargue Drawing Course by Call Number: NC593 .B37 2007The Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course is a complete reprint of a famous, late nineteenth century drawing course.
Animal Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form by Call Number: NC780 .G65 2004
Anatomical Models
These are anatomy models you can check out from the library. Click on a title to check its availability.
- Bone Clones Forensic Primary Set. Case 1 [model]Call Number: GN69.8 .B66 case-1Human female Asian pelvis
Human male African skull, Homo sapiens
Human female European skull, Homo sapiens
Human female Asian humerus
Human female Asian femur - Bone Clones Forensic Primary Set. Case 2 [model]Call Number: GN69.8 .B66 case-2Human female Asian skull, Homo sapiens
Human male Asian skull, Homo sapiens
Human male European skull with a 32-caliber gunshot wound
Human male Asian pelvis
Human male Asian humerus
Human male Asian femur
Human rib with embedded bullet