Are there labels on the drawings?

No. The sheets carry no words or numbers, only the lines of the figure and its proportions.

What does the proportion chart show?

A figure eight heads tall beside a vertical scale of stacked head shapes, with horizontal lines at the chin, chest, navel, hips, knees and feet.

Is the figure a real person?

No. It is a neutral, genderless figure with simplified anatomy, like an artist's wooden mannequin.

What are the three styles?

Clean lineart is contour and form lines in black ink, gesture and form adds a light blue construction under the final line, and pencil shading models the forms in graphite.

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Anatomy reference sheets: body proportions, muscle groups, shape mannequins

Anatomy reference sheets — a front-view standing figure eight heads tall beside a vertical scale of eight stacked head ovals, horizontal lines at chin, chest, navel, hips, knees and feet, clean black ink lineart of even weight, contours and inner form lines only, no shading

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Reading 1Proportions

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Reading 3Shape mannequin

Figure-drawing students study the body's proportions and main muscle groups from simple charts. These sheets show a neutral, genderless figure as a proportion chart of eight heads, a front and back view with the main muscle groups outlined, and a figure built from simple shapes. Each comes as black lineart, a light blue construction study, and a graphite figure study with soft shading. Type a different pose and the figure is drawn to match.

a proportion chart for a figure drawing class
a muscle study for a life drawing session
a reference for body proportions in a sketchbook
a wall chart for a studio

Frequently asked questions

Are there labels on the drawings?: No. The sheets carry no words or numbers, only the lines of the figure and its proportions.
What does the proportion chart show?: A figure eight heads tall beside a vertical scale of stacked head shapes, with horizontal lines at the chin, chest, navel, hips, knees and feet.
Is the figure a real person?: No. It is a neutral, genderless figure with simplified anatomy, like an artist's wooden mannequin.
What are the three styles?: Clean lineart is contour and form lines in black ink, gesture and form adds a light blue construction under the final line, and pencil shading models the forms in graphite.

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