The Skeleton

With our week's classwork being based on the proportions of the body and how it can be altered to make characters and creatures look more exiting our homework was also suitably body based. We were tasked with studying the skeleton and it's mechanical nature (ie. its joint structure). First off we had to do studies of key areas of the skeleton before finally doing a front, side and back view of a skeleton complete with labels of bones and joints.

The idea of the studies was to sketch and try and learn about key areas of the skeleton using as many sources as possible. It was whilst in the midst of doing these drawings that I found myself thinking that surely all areas of the skeleton are key areas of the skeleton. Surely?

Next was the front, back and side view.

I learned from this exercise that drawing skeletons is not particularly fun. They are very technical and I found it hard to keep the proportions of different parts correct to one another. The rib cage and pelvis being particularly demanding.

All in all it seems like the key lesson here is practice drawing more skeletons Quinn.