I'm being pulled in a million directions work-wise lately. I know I should sculpt - it would help me deal with the stress - but I'm often sitting at my computer until well past midnight, then back on it the next morning after a quick breakfast, with breaks only for meals. Not a schedule I can keep up long term, but it may be like this until June.

As you probably know from some of my previous postings, I'm fascinated with human proportions. There's a really, really good book on human proportions for sculptors called the "Art-Student's Guide to the Proportions of the Human Form". Unfortunately, it was published in 1883, and it's very hard to come by. When copies do show up at ABE books or on eBay, they go for hundreds of dollars, sometimes even more.

Tom, over at FigureDrawings.com has a copy, and has made a very high quality e-book version of it. The physical book is very large, and Tom has included both full spread photographs of every figure, as well as each spread segmented out into letter-size chunks ready for printing. It's really a great resource, and worth dropping a few bucks on.

Here are two low-res sample images from the PDF, one showing the full-page spread, the other showing a printable, color-corrected tile:

A low-res sample of a two-page spread

A low-res sample of a printable tile

And just for the record, I don't know Tom and don't get any sort of kick-back or revenue for making this recommendation. In this case I just happen to think this is a great resource that more people should know about.