Ossicles – Malleus
The Malleus
Following on from the Stapes, here is the Malleus which is the latin for Hammer.
I wasn’t going to draw it from this angle, but was watching Jaws the other night and – well …
Again had the same problems as drawing the stapes, I can’t work out quite what is happening below the manubrium. My main source for this picture was one of the 19th century Grays Anatomy illustrations from wikipedia.
I am not to keen on using these as sources, as they are more technical illustration than drawing, which the artist would of probably spent six months drawing doric columns before being allowed to study anatomy and then only under strict conditions and with a defined set of rules and guidelines.
Fair credit to them, I would not have the patience to put in half the detail they put into those illustrations.
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