Artist and teacher Michel Lauricella simplifies the human body into basic, synthetic shapes and forms, offering insight for artists of all kinds, sparking the imagination and improving one's observational abilities. Rather than going the traditional route of memorizing a repertoire of poses, Lauricella instead stresses learning this small collection of forms, which can then be combined and shaped into the more complex and varied forms and postures we see in the living body

• Foreword
• 1:Introduction
• 2:Drawing
• 3:Head and Neck
• 4:Torso
• 5:Upper limb
• 6:Lower limb
• 7:Resources