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Head rotation atlas, volume 1

The rotation plates gathered as a visual book, with one image and at most one caption line per page

Book cover

Book cover

Head rotation atlas volume 1 cover with one graphite head

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  • What you get: 107 pages, 64 primary plates, 32 overlay pages, 4 rotation indexes, 1 screen-first PDF
  • Licence: Personal study use. Art you make while using the plates is yours. No redistribution of the plates, no AI training on them.
  • Refunds: Look at the free sampler first; broken or not-as-described files are fixed or refunded
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  • 107pages
  • 100figures
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  • Works on all devices
  • 107-page screen-first PDF

The rotation plates gathered into one visual book. Each page holds one head study or index, with at most one caption line where the angle needs it. The sequence repeats across four heads so the same turn can be compared without opening separate folders.

How the book reads

  • One page at a time, with at most one caption line.
  • Each head opens with its own page and ends with a rotation index, so the four turns read in the same order.
  • Some plates come again with their construction overlay drawn on.

Limits

The PDF is screen-first. It can be printed, but it is not a press-ready print edition. The primary plates are also sold separately in the numbered rotation volumes for artists who want the image files, loops, practice sheets, and overlays outside the book.

What is inside

The cover, head openers, primary plates, combined overlay pages, and rotation indexes shown as they appear in the PDF

Head rotation atlas, volume 1: What is inside

Files in the download

  • 1 screen-first PDF, 107 US Letter pages
  • 3 front-matter pages
  • 64 primary plate pages
  • 32 combined plate-and-overlay pages
  • 4 head opener pages and 4 rotation-index pages
  • 100 placed source figures (64 primary plates, 32 combined overlays, 4 rotation indexes)

Licence

Personal study use, on your own devices. Art you make while using the plates is yours, including work you sell. You may not redistribute or resell the files, and you may not use them to train an AI model.

Refunds

The sampler is free and it is the same plates at the same size, so look at it before you buy. If a file is broken, missing, or not what this page describes, write to us and we will fix it or refund it.

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