Understanding the individual elements that make up the human body is crucial to learning the anatomy as a whole. Making studies of the various components such as hands, lips, eyes, ears, back, shoulders, ribcage, feet, etc. gives the artists an allowance to best fit them all together when working on the entire human body. The two silverpoints above are short, 2 hours studies from a live model which I always find better to use than plaster casts.
