I wrote Art Anatomy as an anatomy reference that an artist would want to read and use. It's essential, not comprehensive - designed to get the visual artist up and running with foundational muscular and skeletal anatomy. The manuscript itself is complete, but much work remains to be done on it - illustrations (about 350 of them, at the last estimate), and a few revisions and corrections. It is a work in progress, but still should prove useful to the student of art anatomy.

Display of the book is accomplished through views, which interpret an XML document for various kinds of display. I'm requesting other artists and designers to create illustrations and views. Please contribute!

Art Anatomy is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. If you have corrections or ideas for improvements, or would like to seek additional permissions, please contact me.

"I say that first you ought to learn the limbs and their mechanism, and having this knowledge, their actions should come next, according to the circumstances in which they occur in man. And thirdly to compose subjects, the studies for which should be taken from natural actions..."
Leonardo

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