Lateral View (Third Right Digit)
Firstly, I knew in my last post, that I mentioned that I would be moving on to the eyes. However, I noticed that it is coming up to a year since I started this blog, and I thought I would spend the next few drawings, redoing some of the subjects I did last year, so I can see if i have made any improvement.
First up, is last year I did a skectch of the tendons on a finger.
Click here for the orignal (short!) post
A few things, firstly I have long given up on colour pencils – dont like them, also I can see in the lines in the original drawing , where I haven’t been confident which results in that squiggly edge. Shading has been done for shading sake. There is not much thought gone into actual shape.
That’s not to say my latest drawing isn’t error free. I made a school boy error from the Vincula Brevia upwards. It took us a while to figure it, but what I did, was instead of drawing what was there, I drew what I knew.
The angle of the original, had been taken looking down. You can probabnly see where I have drawn the nail with it curving at one perspective before changing it to try and correct the perspective.
Due to the size I was working on, I didn’t have enough room to really correct it properly, as you can see the middle phalanx bone is somewhat darker than the rest of them. Finally, all distal phalanx bones are not created equal, I wanted to draw it more to what I thought it should look like, than what it was.
One thing I am pleased with, is before starting I decided on what pencils I was going to use for certain areas straight from the start.
Tendons Dark - 2B, HB
Tendons Light – H, 2H
Bone – 2B, 4B
Edging – B
which I’m pleased I did, as I didn’t end up with the situation I had when drawing the Ossicles.
To end, where I mentioned in my last post about the black smudgy paper I used, this also left a big black smudgy mess on my scanner.
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Categories: Human Anatomy Tags: Bones, Finger, Hand, Nerves, Perspective, phalanx, Skeleton, Tendons, Third Right Digit
Drawing Skeletons – Curves
Fifth Metarcarpal Left hand
I noticed a lot of the traffic for my site comes from the search terms “how to draw skeletons” and variants around that.
To hopefully make this site a bit more useful, I thought I would start to put up some posts on a few observations I have made along the way about drawing anatomy.
To the left is the fifth metarcarpal left. Or to you and me, the lower part of your small finger on your left hand. There is an earlier sketch I did on the bones of the hand here , which has the position of the metarcparl marked.
One of the things I have noticed about bones, is they always have gracious curves. I decided to draw this bone, by simply flicking onto a random page in my anatomy book and I would put money on it that I could prove my point about curves with any of the bones in the human body.
Also, important to note is symmetry here as well never is the curve on one side, the same as the other, there are always subtle or not so subtle differences.
I think there is a temptation when drawing bones, to go the cartoon root and draw , two parallel lines with 3/4 of an 8 shape at either end. So a point to bear in mind is to think of the sides in curves.
The sketch to the left was done with a 4b, 2B and a @H to give it the texture.
To also justify my “gracious curves” statement, take a look at the hyperbola and Neiles parabola here , both of which I would call damn ugly curves ;- )
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Categories: Human Anatomy, Notes Tags: Anatomy, Bones, curves, Drawing Skeletons, Hand, Left, Metarpal, Skeleton, Tips
Blocking the Hand
This is just a quick look at the basic shapes that go into the hand and the lower arm.
Reminds me a bit of that old Michelangelo joke.
“How do you sculpt a statue of an elephant?” who said, ”It’s easy. Just find a block of marble and chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.”?
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Fist
Neh started out ok, but lost it around the thumb , think i was alright in my construction but when i started shading, had trouble separating the back from the front , so over compensated a bit by bring the nail and end of the thumb physically forward.
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Categories: Human Anatomy Tags: Anatomy, Fist, Grip, Hand
Finger Tendons
Those are the things that really hurt it you ever cut your fingers deeply. Probably an understatement
