Figure 'Curriculum': Studying & Learning Educational Direction
This is a living, breathing “art degree” for autodidacts, outlined for/by me (its being formally written out like this is by a lunch with another artist where there was discussion about the value of externalizing stages of learning).
Curriculum aka Tour of Resources
This “curriculum” is less curriculum and more of a hypothetical tour of content I’m excited to keep making progress on. Where dates are mentioned, it means I’m strangely trying to track an effort to take the curriculum literally.
Semester: Anatomy w/Tom Fox
Syllabus driven by TOC of: “Drawing Form and Pose” by Tom Fox, §2 “The Body” (pages 68-260).
Each week coupled with:
Supplemental: Bridgman
Weekly Notes & Living-Syllabus
Week 1: 202406 T.Fox’s “head”
- T.Fox’s content covered:
- From: “starting the head” to “skull width”
- Pages 72-84
- 20240622 study-notes
- 20240623 " " " "
Week 2: 202406 T.Fox’s “head” Cont’d to Occipital
- T.Fox’s content covered:
- From: “Occipital” to “silhouette”
- Pages 85-92
- 20240629 study-notes
- 20240705 " " " "
Week 3: 202407 T.Fox’s “head”, Blitz’d to the end!
- T.Fox’s content covered:
- From: “face mask” to end of “head” section
- Pages 93-121
- addendum: off-curriculum “crash-course on hands” (as prep for Said’s
“Head & Hands”)
- 1hr co-read through of pages 204-217
- 20240706 study-notes
- 20240706 " " " "
Week 4: 202407: T.Fox Head & Said’s Hands
- TFox’s content covered, to recap next week:
- [2nd-cycle through week 3 content] pages 94-103
- 94-97 together
- 97-103 separate during week
- [2nd-cycle through week 3 content] pages 94-103
- 20240715 study-notes
- 20240715 study-notes
Week 5: 202406: T.Fox Head & Bouftass’ Humero-Ulnar Joint
- T.Fox’s content covered:
- Pg 97,98
- 20240720 notes: study session
- Humerus and ulna look-ahead with TFox and R.B.Hale on Ulna
- Head’s frontal mask with T.Fox
Semester: Bouftass at P&C & Vilppu
Week 6: 202406: Vilppu’s Figure Workshop
Week 7-11: 2024-07: Bouftass’ “Hand & Bit of Head”
Week 12: 202409: Vilppu in Vienna
Semester: Bouftass’s Anatomy at P&C
Weeks 13-17: 2024-10: Bouftass’ “Lower Leg & Foot”
- Photos blackboard
- Handouts/scans
Weeks 18-22: 2024-11: Bouftass’ “Upper Arm & Shoulder”
- Photos blackboard
- Handouts/scans
Semester(½-length): Hales’ Masters’ Figures
Syllabus driven by TOC of: "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters" by Robert Beverly Hale
Each week coupled with:
Semester: color & painting w/Gurney
Syllabus driven by TOC of: new Gurney’s gouache book (Otherwise, “Color & Light”)
Each week coupled with:
Semester: figures freed of reference
Syllabus driven by TOC of: one of three memory books Jon has
Each week coupled with:
- “Skillful Huntsman” by Robertson
- Hampton’s “Figure Drawing”
- Tom Bankroft’s two books
Book on rhythms? (A la O’Reilly rhythms?)- Vilppu’s manual
- Bridgman’s Anatomy
Supplemental: Bammes
Semester: Animals from Imagination
Syllabus driven by TOC of: “Atlas of Animal Anatomy”
Semester: Story, Composition
Syllabus driven by TOC of: “Understanding Comics”??
Each week coupled with:
- Vandruff’s class
- AIC master study
Appendix
- Google Drive folder with further scans, notes, etc.
General Format for All Semesters
- Be producing prompts and trying them.
- Be doing one of previous weeks’ prompts at random selection
- Collect all prompts produced, somewhere easily found (eg: this doc, journal, anywhere regular).
- When collaborating: meet-days’ format:
- First half, recap: share notes and new aha-moments from week’s study
- Second half, forward:
- 5-10min: skim chapter quietly
- remainder of the time: read aloud, taking notes, discussing
- Tip: keep an eye on the time, maybe set a ½ way timer
Books & Other Sources
See this page’s “other resources” section.
Reference Tools
- Digital anatomy apps and sites
- “Skully” android app, by Proko: https://proko.com/skellyapp
- https://posemaniacs.com
- “Essential Anatomy” android app by “3D Medical OU”
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com.AnatomyLearning.Anatomy3DViewer3)