How to Draw Arm Bones – Anatomy for Artists

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How to Draw Arm Bones – Anatomy for Artists

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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.

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@robot0906
2mo
Here are my tracings. Feedback would be great.
Rachel Dawn Owens
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
2mo
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
2mo
Noticed I missed drawing the epicondyles in this photo, hopefully it's more correct now
Alejandro
7mo
Theese are my assigments for this lesson
Mark Manthorpe
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
9mo
Found it difficult to find the bony landmark of the radius
Shannon Stone
The tracing assignments, along with some other studies from this module.
Samuel Sanjaya
I think i simplified some of this the wrong way, should have just sticked to cruquet mallet shape instead.
@palyo
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
1yr
I've made some minor adjustments to the drawings
Camellito
1yr
Hello everyone!! I made this drawing to better understand the bones of the arm.
Camellito
1yr
MORE ARMS!!! I had problems with some arms. I appreciate the criticism.
Camellito
1yr
finally at the arms!!!! Here are my assingments.
Madelyn Kuipers
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
Assignment 01 - Arm Bones Getting back into anatomy, forgot how much problem solving is required! Any feedback is welcome and appreciated! Thanks!
@jamesofthejungle
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
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
@viny
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
2yr
CC TV
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
Arm Bones Assignment
Margaret Langston
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
I did something super weird in example 3 :\
@angiespice
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
Sandra Süsser
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