2000+ poses in the classical manner: weight on one leg, shoulders counter-rotating against hips, arrangements that read from every side. Reference for drilling contrapposto, the proportional canon and the sculptural way of building a figure.
The Renaissance workshop settled a set of questions about the figure that artists still work from. How weight travels through a standing body. What proportions read as ideal. Why a slight counter-rotation of the shoulders against the hips looks alive while a symmetrical stance looks embalmed. This collection of 2000+ references is built around that tradition. What's in this pack
Poses in the classical and Renaissance manner: the standing figure at rest with its weight over one leg, the seated and reclining arrangements that populate the great painted compositions, and sculptural attitudes that hold up when you walk around them. The vocabulary is old. The reference is contemporary photography of it, which means you can study the thing itself rather than another artist's interpretation of it. What you'll practice
Contrapposto. The load-bearing hip rises, the opposite shoulder drops, and the spine takes a shallow S to keep the head over the base. Once you can see it you can build it into any standing figure, and once you can build it your characters stop standing to attention.
The proportional canon. Head-heights, the halfway point at the pubic symphysis, the elbow arriving at the waist, the wrist at the hip, the knee at the quarter. Classical proportion is a checking system rather than a straitjacket, and material like this is well suited to drilling it until the checks are automatic.
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