John H. Vanderpoel's 1935 book, The Human Figure: Life Drawing for Artists, contains 430 pencil and charcoal drawings by the author and artist including a self portrait (see below). The book offers detailed descriptive writing on the the structural components of the eyes, face, hands, feet, etc. with an emphasis on how the parts come together to make the whole. As Vanderpoel writes in his introduction: "Every stroke of the artist's brush [pencil] should prove his [her] unders