Assignment #6: Hand and Foot Bones

Due next week

Choose your most interesting hand drawing and your most interesting foot drawing from the previous sketchbook assignment.  You are to re-draw them, superimposing the skeletal structure of each into the drawings (do not merely make a skeleton hand and foot without the flesh surrounding it).   Each drawing should fill a sketchbook page.

Reread pp 100-110 in Goldstein about the bone structure of hands and feet.  Also, do your own research about the skeletal anatomy of hands and feet enough to be able to accurately place each bone into its respective spot.  You are to be anatomically accurate, allowing the various processes and recesses of each individual bone to be expressed.  Do not merely make cartoony versions of bones.  The shape of each distal phalanx should be separate and distinct from the shape of each medial phalanx, for example.  Also, be sure that your skeleton matches up with any visible landmarks caused by boney protrusions, so that the medial malleolus of the tibia actually causes the protrusion known as the inside ankle bone.

Both of these drawings should be as made to be as believable and as beautifully crafted as possible.  Take into consideration the perspectival shape of foreshortened bones, plus the necessary overlapping of bones that such drawings require.  Use any reference sources available to finish the project as long as you yourself are the one making the drawings.

Good luck!

Assignment #5: Hands & Feet

Due next week

Read pp 44-53 in Goldstein about the concept of planes and masses relating to each other.  In observing complicated forms like hands and feet, it is critical to be aware of their architecture; their major planes and how those major masses can be divided up to find detail.  If you draw the hand the way most people think of it you will end up drawing five sausages sticking out of a wrist!

You are to make 3 drawings of single hands, and 3 drawings of single feet.  All must be in a unique position.  Each drawing should be close to life size, filling a sketchbook page. 

The Rules

·       All of your drawings must describe light and shadow

·       Be as detailed and descriptive as possible, but do not lose the overall space and structure

·       Every drawing must be done from life

·       Every drawing must be done in a different position than all the others

·       Make each drawing interesting by picking an unusual position

·       Seek out other artists to see how they did it

·       Strong, dramatic light WILL make your life easier!

Helpful Hints

·       Body parts are architectural.  They have mass and are made up of planes!

·       Keep it simple.  Only find detail in the light, not the shadow.

·       Don’t draw just your own. Instead, get others to pose for you!

Quiz Master List for the rest of the semester

Femur

·         Fibula

·         Patella

·         Tibia

·         Pelvis

·         Tarsals

·         Metatarsals

·         Greater trochanter

·         Iliac crest

·         Ribcage

·         Sternum

·         Clavicle

·         Humerus

·         Radius

·         Ulna

·         Carpals

·         Metacarpals

·         Phalanges

·         Mandible

·         Zygomatic arch

·         Nasal bone

·         Deltoid

·         Biceps

·         Triceps

·         Olecranon process of the ulna

·         Head of the ulna

·         Hypothenar  muscles

·         Thenar muscles

·         Gluteus maximus

·         Illio-tibial band

·         Rectus femoris

·         vastus medialis

·         Gastrocnemius

·         Tibialis anterior

·         Achilles tendon

·         Medial malleolus

·         Lateral malleolus

·         Sternocleidomastoid

·         Trapezius

·         Pectoralis major

·         Latissimus dorsi

·         Rectus abdominus

·         7^th cervical vertebra

Assignment #4: Torso Muscles

Muscles of the Torso

This project is due next week.

The torso, anchored by the spinal column, is the glue that ties all the extremities together. From the ribcage on top to the pelvic girdle below, it is where the gesture is born.  It can twist and turn in almost an infinite number of directions, and to do that its muscular structure is downright miraculous in its ingenuity.  We’re all familiar with its (idealized) major forms: abs, pects, hips and back, but relatively few people know much beyond those major masses.  This project will help.

Be prepared for the 5 question quiz on the accompanying list of landmarks!

In your sketchbook, you are to draw three views of a torso as accurately, proportionate, and as detailed as possible, with the major muscles and landmarks from the list provided below neatly labeled in each view.  You must label all muscles in view in each drawing!  You must draw an anterior (front) view, and posterior (back) view, and a lateral (side) view.. All three drawings should be on separate pages and--once again—should be independently labeled.  You may use any detailed image in Goldstein (see illustrations in Chap. 4) or research your own accurate images.  Use a finely sharpened pencil to accurately render as many muscles as would be visible in the view that you’ve chosen.  You must include everything from the neck down to the top of the femur, including the shoulders.  Include muscular striations that help to identify the direction of the pressure that the muscle applies. Do not crop your torsos at all and be sure to fill your sketchbook page as much as possible without compromising proportion or accuracy.  You are to label your drawings neatly and without compromising the details of the drawing with the list of muscles and landmarks `below.

• Sternocleidomastoid
• Trapezius
• Clavicle
• Deltoid
• Pectoralis major
• Serratus
• Latissimus dorsi
• External oblique
• Rectus abdominus
• Flank pad of the external oblique
• Anterior superior iliac spine
• Posterior superior iliac spine
• sartorius
• tensor fascia latae
• gluteus medius
• gluteus maximus
• greater trochanter
• 7^th cervical vertebra
• infraspinatus
• teres minor
• teres major
• rhomboid
• sacral triangle