The Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert created a drawing manual, titled Tekenboek, to serve as a teaching tool for young art students and amateur artists. His son Frederick Bloemaert published the book shortly after his father’s death, and "A Student Draftsman" was the title page of that publication. The manual includes prints of figures, anatomical studies, animals, and various narrative compositions. On this title page, images of bodily fragments, such as heads and hands, served as models for students to copy. Through these teaching manuals, young artists could learn how to study the body in isolated segments, independent of a teacher, gradually building up to full compositions.