Anatomy: The Full Figure, Basic Building Blocks and Anatomy

Luca Cambiaso

A basic understanding of the simplified forms that make up the human figure will greatly increase your understanding of the way it is constructed and how that construction moves in space. This is true of drawing the live model or inventing a figure from your imagination. The following are some examples of the way artists have used basic blocky shapes to understand the figure better.

 

Luca Cambiaso

Peter Paul Rubens

  

Albrecht Durer, Luca Cambiaso

Albrecht Durer

  

Heinrich Lautensack

 

    

 

 

Anatomical Studies: Various Artists