Assignment #1: Skeleton and Skull

Assignment #1: The Skeleton and Skull

Life Drawing; Stevenson

Due: Tuesday, January 28 at the beginning of class

In order to draw the figure with any quality, you must have knowledge of anatomy.  This assignment is the beginning of our study of basic artistic anatomy.  It involves making two detailed drawings, one of a full skeleton, and the other of a complete skull.

Read Chapter 3 in Goldstein.  Then, on the first page of your new sketchbook, you are to draw a complete skeleton as accurately, proportionate, and as detailed as possible, with the major bones from the list provided neatly labeled.  You may use any full skeleton image in Goldstein or research your own accurate image (see example on blog).  Use a finely sharpened pencil to accurately render as many of the 206 bones of the body as would be visible in the view that you’ve chosen.  Do not crop your skeleton at all and be sure to fill your sketchbook page as much as possible without compromising proportion or accuracy.  

Then draw a skull that is just as finely rendered.  Your skull drawing should fill the sketchbook page without compromising accuracy, and it must not be cropped at all. Make sure your drawings are NOT on pages facing each other—the two drawings will rub together and ruin each other.

You are to label both drawings neatly and without compromising the details of the drawing with the list of bones below.  You will also be quizzed next week on the same list, so be sure to study it!

·         Femur

·         Fibula

·         Patella

·         Tibia

·         Pelvis

·         Tarsals

·         Metatarsals

·         Greater trochanter

·         Pubic arch

·         Anterior superior iliac spine

·         Iliac crest

·         Lumbar vertebrae

·         Sacral triangle

·         Thoracic vertebrae

·         Ribcage

·         Sternum

·         Clavicle

·         cervical vertebrae

·         Humerus

·         Radius

·         Ulna

·         Carpals

·         Pisiform carpal

·         Metacarpals

·         Phalanges

·         Mandible

·         Maxilla

·         Zygomatic arch

·         Calcaneus

·         Zygomatic bone

·         Frontal bone

·         Temporal fossa

·         Nasal bone

·         Mastoid process

·         Coronoid process

·         Styloid process

·         Supercilliary ridge

·         Orbit

·         Cranial Suture

·         Mental protuberance

·         Parietal bone

·         Canine fossa

·         Occipital bone

·         Sphenoid bone