Are you looking for an online solution for teaching anatomy to your students?

This course offers training providers high quality but affordable introductory anatomy content for your students - and something they will love! Your students will retain access to the online book forever, as well as the 3D printed model if you choose to order this for them.

Purchase a group package with significant discount per student (per the discount schedule). See the purchase options and discount tiers section.

The Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course was designed for visual artists, and includes a simplified anatomy component. Since it has been designed for the purpose of understanding the anatomy as observed in the living body, it has also been shown to be useful for those studying anatomy for other purposes, including:

• Personal Trainers

• Yoga Instructors

• Massage Therapists

I think the simplified, hands on approach taught here is in the sweet spot of introductory anatomy study

Here's why:

1. Follow embedded 3D models: Unlike the flat pages of a regular book, here you sculpt the forms in coloured clay based on step-by-step 3D models that you can rotate on your screen (rather than wading through books looking for the right angle to understand what the form of a muscle is)

2. Strategic Simplification: These forms are simplified where appropriate - for instance, in the observed human body, the forearm flexors are usually seen as one general mass, rather than the multiple small muscles that compose this group - and the shape of this group as it interlocks and flows with other forms of the arm is what we are interested in as artists

3. Touch is a powerful learning tool: Involve your hands and spatial sense as you model them onto the 3D printed skeleton - this is the most fun and intuitive way to grasp the way the forms relate to one another

4. Colour Coding: My simplified colour coded system keeps each muscle or muscle group separated mentally, and gives you a way to colour code your study of any reference you choose to - in the course I suggest colour coding life drawings, tracings of photoreference or figures from imagination - consistent colours help you to stay in control of the masses.

5. Covers key poses/actions: Characteristic patterns emerge with certain actions - the pose of this 3D printed skeleton allows you to see:

-A twisting, tilted torso in contrapposto (weight on one leg)

-A bent versus straight knee

-A bent versus straight ankle

-A bent versus straight elbow

-A forward thrust shoulder versus a more retracted and lifted shoulder

- A pronated forearm (palm down) versus a supinated (palm up) forearm

6. Flexible system

The full kit contains the 36cm skeleton model, all the required coloured clay and a simple sculpture tool, so that students follow the guide plus the embedded 3D models to lay the principle forms of soft tissue onto their skeleton.

However, the course can be approached without the use of this model, instead based on using tracings over photo reference matched to the pose of the 3D models, and assisted by sequential layers in these models

I can customise a landing page for your school, guiding your students to the content you think is most relevant to them.

Offline (live) training options at your school are also possible - ask me about this if it is of interest.

Conclusion

I wish it was around when I started trying to figure this stuff out!

It is an approach that balances simplification (so that you are not overwhelmed) with robustly deepening your knowledge of the form, or 3D shape, of the visible elements of the human body.  Detailed écorché (flayed figure) courses are great if you can find one and and can afford it, but in the end we need to simplify when thinking about the human body observed from life . 

This tool can save your students a lot of time and hassle as they study anatomy, which can otherwise be extremely challenging.   Simply by getting the kit and following the process in the course, the insights and connections will come naturally.

Access to online book only

Includes:

• Support for students via contact forms in member portal

• Customised landing page(s) for your students to access course notes through

• Discounts for critiques of individual student work (please enquire if you want discuss the addition of critiques)

Access to Online Book PLUS 3D printed Skeleton Kit

Includes:

• Support for students via contact forms in member portal

• Customised landing page(s) for your students to access course notes through

• Discounts for critiques of individual student work (please enquire if you want discuss the addition of critiques)

• One 3D Printed Skeleton kit per student

• One basic sculpture tool per student

Access to Online Book PLUS 3D printed Skeleton Kit PLUS Coloured Clay

Includes:

• Support for students via contact forms in member portal

• Customised landing page(s) for your students to access course notes through

• Discounts for critiques of individual student work (please enquire if you want discuss the addition of critiques)

• One 3D Printed Skeleton kit per student

• One basic sculpture tool per student

• Sufficient coloured clay to complete the course

To enquire further or order one of the options above please contact me at info@scottbreton.com.au or call me at 0413016697 within Australia