Book of a Hundred Hands

by George B Bridgman

Overview

Classic guide to drawing the hand by Master Anatomy teacher; George B. Bridgman. Get the "hardest" part of your figure drawing down pat with this excellent guide to drawing the hands from life.

This edition of the book includes all original illustrations, cleaned and optimized for viewing on screen.

The text in the book has been formatted for the Kindle and can be re-sized for easier reading.

Subjects Covered Include:

◦Bones of the wrist
◦Expression
◦Fingers
◦History of the hand in art
◦Knuckles
◦Mechanisms
◦Mechanisms
◦Origin, Insertion and Action of Muscles
◦The Fist
◦The hand (back view)
◦The hand (palmar view)
◦The hand (thumb side)
◦The hand (little finger side)
◦Thumb
◦Veins

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015700664
Publisher:	Alex Liggett
Publication date:	09/13/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	546,232
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

George Brant Bridgman (1865–1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.

In his youth, Bridgman studied the arts under painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and later with Gustave Boulanger. For most of his life Bridgman lived in New York where he taught anatomy and figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Among his many thousands of students were the American cartoonist Will Eisner and Norman Rockwell; in his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, Rockwell spoke highly of Bridgman. His successor at Art Students League was Robert Beverly Hale.

Bridgman used box forms to represent the major masses of the figure (head, thorax, and pelvis) which he would tie together with gestural lines and produce to create "wedges" or simplified interconnecting forms of the body.