How to Draw Arm Bones – Anatomy for Artists

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How to Draw Arm Bones – Anatomy for Artists

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Anatomy of the Human Body

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Assignment

Your assignment is to do a tracing over model photos and find the simple forms of the humerus, radius, and ulna. Basically, you’re like a human x-ray machine. To figure out where the bones should go, look for clues from visible landmarks. Be sure to create an account so you can subscribe to the Proko newsletter so you can get a FREE model sample pack to follow along with this lesson.

@robot0906

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20d

Here are my tracings. Feedback would be great.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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18d

Looking good! There’s a piece of the scapulae that you can actually see from the front. It’s something that surprised me when I first learned about it. Hope this helps! Keep up the anatomy tracings! You will learn so much.

Jonatan

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22d

Did a bunch of these, already went to the critique video but wanted to post them here cuz I feel it would be more likely to be seen here, I think I more or less got the right idea but the gesture of the ulna and radius itself is a bit confusing still, I hope I got them right or close in these, any critique is greatly appreciated!

Jonatan

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22d

Noticed I missed drawing the epicondyles in this photo, hopefully it's more correct now

Alejandro

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6mo

Theese are my assigments for this lesson

Mark Manthorpe

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7mo

A collection of arm bones. I think they went well. Tried to keep it simple, no elaborate shapes which use to show up on older arm bone studies.

Ezra

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8mo

Found it difficult to find the bony landmark of the radius

Shannon Stone

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11mo

The tracing assignments, along with some other studies from this module.

Samuel Sanjaya

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1yr

I think i simplified some of this the wrong way, should have just sticked to cruquet mallet shape instead.

@palyo

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1yr

Hi everyone ! These are my drawings for this lesson's assignment . It took far too long to complete because i couldn't understand well the form of the radius, especially the S curve, when doing both forearm motions, now i think i've figured it out but the form still isn't the best. Anyway , i would really appreciate any kind of critique/advice.

@palyo

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1yr

I've made some minor adjustments to the drawings

Camellito

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1yr

Hello everyone!! I made this drawing to better understand the bones of the arm.

Camellito

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1yr

MORE ARMS!!! I had problems with some arms. I appreciate the criticism.

Camellito

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1yr

finally at the arms!!!! Here are my assingments.

Madelyn Kuipers

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1yr

Assignment 01 - Attempt 2 - Arm Bones Giving it another shot based on feedback and the example videos. Any feedback is welcome and appreciated!

Madelyn Kuipers

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2yr

Assignment 01 - Arm Bones Getting back into anatomy, forgot how much problem solving is required! Any feedback is welcome and appreciated! Thanks!

@jamesofthejungle

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2yr

For the number 5 arm, Stan outlines what that should look like in either the assignment videos or the submission critique video. The humerus needs to be longer.

Jesper Axelsson

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2yr

Hi @Madelyn Kuipers, solid studies! You show a good understanding of the arm bones; they are correctly constucted for the most part. - In #1 you've place the radius medially at the humerus, when it should sit laterally - I would study the scapulae with the humerus. You tend to get the head of the humerus slightly misplaced. In #2 for example it's too high up, making the humerus too long. In #4 it should sit more laterally. One thing that has helped me has been to find the head of humerus, and acromion process on my own shoulder. - You get this right for the most part, but in image 4 you've attached the head of the humerus laterally to the shaft of the humerus. The head of the humerus should sit medially to and posterior to the shaft. - In #5 you've place the epicondyles of the humerus too high on the upper arm, making the humerus too short. I think it will help to identify these points on your own arm. It will increase your knowledge of their placement and it can also help you use your imagination to find them on the model. You could ask "where does it feel like I would have my epicondyles if I stood in the same position as the model?". Or you could imagine touching the reference. Since you've touched the epicondyles on you own arm, you can kinda guess where you would have felt them on the model. - In #4 I might extend the radius and ulna a bit longer. See paintover. Again, finding the bones on your own body helps. Hope this helps :)

Lenserd martell

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2yr

@viny

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2yr

I left this exercise with a headache, it's very difficult to know where the bones are when the arm is pronated, and the way you see them also changes if you're looking at them from above or below.

CC TV

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2yr

CC TV

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2yr

I can only draw on the computer with the mouse, so the effect is not very good. I feel these like these are some bad perspectives picture

Samuel Parker

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2yr

Arm Bones Assignment

Margaret Langston

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2yr

I did the arm bone assignment on my own first, trying to use the Skelly app and the bone models. I got completely lost in trying to draw BONES. Did it anyway. I then watched the SP examples, then did the SP examples along with him.

Margaret Langston

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2yr

I did something super weird in example 3 :\

@angiespice

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2yr

My first attempt - corrected with the reference examples. going to need a lot of time to grasp the area. The hardest part was finding the angle of the Epicondyle. That stuffed up my original drawingsss