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- Demsteader, Mark - Contemporary figurative artist painting powerful images of the human figure
- Izurieta, Alvaro - Presents work by an Argentine painter specializing in the human figure. Oils, acrylics, watercolours, pastels, drawings. Includes biography. English, Spanish, and Italian.
- The Figure Drawing LAB - Detailed instruction on how to draw the human figure with graphics showing proportions of the human body, chiaroscuro and foreshortening.
- Mintardja, Joe - A young professional painter from Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. Character portraits and other figural work on the human character. Images and biography.
- Esmann, Jan - Jan Esmann is one of the leading artist of the new figurative painting in Scandinavia. Combining expert craftsmanship and a firsthand experience of mysticism he evokes images of basic human predicaments.
- Orseck, Ellen - Images of her exploration of the human figure, with a biography.
- Torrens, Bernardo - Paintings depicting the human figure. Realism.
- Kelly, Andrea - Features oil paintings, pastels, and drawings of human figures and landscapes. Also contains exhibition information, artist's bio and photo, contact information and links.
- Human Figure Data - Human-figure data sets for architectural drawings in DXF, MCD VectorWorks, and EPS format. Free download after registration, or purchase of CD-ROM [requires Flash].
- Human-Ergo - A source for poly-faceted 3D Models of human figures, cars, trucks and construction machinery for SolidWorks, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, and IronCad.
Wikipedia Articles
- Human figure (aesthetics) - In aesthetics, human figure is collection of all attributes of the human's body. It is not just confined to body shape.
- Figure drawing - Figure drawing is an exercise in drawing the human body in its various shapes and positions. Life drawing refers to the process of drawing the human figure from observation of a live model.
- Stick figure - A stick figure is a very simple type of drawing, generally of the human form, although stick figures of other types of animals are possible (for example, a stick figure dog). In a stick figure, the head is represented by a circle, sometimes embellished with details such as eyes or crudely-scratched-out hair.
- Life class - A life class is a class held in art schools for the purpose of instructing art students on drawing or painting the human figure from live models. Life classes are usually reserved for more advanced students because of the complexities of the human figure and other aesthetic considerations not encountered in more objective subjects.
- Cognitive closure (philosophy) - Cognitive closure refers to the possibility or belief that the human mind is "closed" to some facts--that there are things human beings are simply not able to know, not because there is not enough time to figure them out, but because the human mind does not have the capacity to comprehend them. Thomas Nagel mentions the possibility of cognitive closure of the subjective character of experience and the ...