Ossicles – Stapes
The Stapes
Onto the smallest bones of the human body the Ossicles and for this post the Stapes (AKA Stirrup bone) which amongst other things is another fine case of what I mentioned in my post about curves. It is also something I imagine wouldn’t be out of place in a Yves Tanguy painting.
To give you an idea of how small this bone is, there is an excellent image in the wikimedia commons
The size did present some problems when drawing it, noticeably most of the images I could find were … well , small and what large diagrams I could find, didn’t really give any indication of texture or detail. It also seems that not all stapes are born equal , which you can see if you do a quick google search on the term.
Most confusingly, which I could not find an explanation for; some pictures seem to show a horn on the head as in mine and others don’t. It was also hard to find close up detail of the neck and head section.
My drawing is a hybrid of the photographs and diagrams I came across , I think this has had an effect on my shading in terms of representing light as I had no real reference.
Rest of the Ossicles coming soon….
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