How to Draw Upper Back Muscles – Form

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How to Draw Upper Back Muscles – Form

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Anatomy of the Human Body

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Assignments 39Lesson NotesDownloads 3

Assignment

Your assignment is to do quicksketch drawings showing the motion and form of the upper back.

For the second bonus part of this assignment, pose Skelly using the Skelly App. Then invent the muscles on top. This is a true test of your knowledge because you have no reference to work from. You have to invent the forms based on what you learned in these lessons. You also have to make sure you position the scapula accurately. The app gives you complete freedom to rotate the scapula how you want, so you have to think about the limitations and accuracy of your poses.

Download the assignment photos in the Downloads tab!

@nemuiyo

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18d

Manuel Rioja

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7mo

My assigments part 4.

Manuel Rioja

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7mo

My assigments part 3.

Manuel Rioja

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7mo

My assigments part two.

Manuel Rioja

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7mo

My assigments first part.

Ezra

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10mo

Upper back muscles. Had difficulty with showing the squash/stretch and where it inserted in the spine. As well as when the rhomboid showed through.

@palyo

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1yr

Hi everyone ! These are my drawings for this lesson's assignment. I struggled a lot while drawing the poses since i feel that the romboid is still kind of unknown to me when drawing from a reference and that sums up most of my assignment i guess, the hardest poses to draw were the fourth and fifth one , i guess my gesture is a bit off in these or it's stiff overall. Also, the third one feels weird to me and i don't know why to be honest. Anyway, i would really like any kind of advice/critique.

Huba Hevele

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2yr

Hello, these are my attempts before watching the critique video.It really helps to know the anatomy so I can represent form with my shading not just copy shapes and edges.But it is hard to keep myself in that 3d mentality while shading. Do you guys strugle with that?

Zuzu Soltys

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2yr

Hello,here's my submission of the assignment. I drew some poses more times, because I wasn't sure about the placement of the landmarks or I wanted to make the quicksketch more dynamic and less stiff. Critique is kindly appreciated!

Lenserd martell

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2yr

Looks like it needs more practice.

Jesper Axelsson

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2yr

Hi @Lenserd martell, I think these look really good! Overall, really nice work! - You might want to do some more studies of the pelvis and the obliques. - In image 2, drawing at the top, the acromion process should be farther out, I think. And the humerus could be farther out too. - In image 1, drawing at the top, I think the serratus anterior should reach lower on the ribcage. Hope this helps :)

@viny

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2yr

drawing the back is always difficult

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2yr

My assignment for this lesson

Samuel Parker

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2yr

Skelly app tracings

Samuel Parker

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2yr

Upper back quick sketches

Tsotne Shonia

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2yr

My attempt for this assignment :

Margaret Langston

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2yr

I did the quick sketches along with Prof P's demos. I did not do them myself.

Camellito

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2yr

Here are my upper back assingments.

Alexis Riviere

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2yr

Did a few drawings of the torso muscles in different poses, all from imagination. It wasn't the assignment at all, but heh. I wanted to put everything I learnt so far into some free sketches.

@xander

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2yr

Hi everyone! Here's my assignment. Any feedback is much appreciated.

@hiflow

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3yr

All critiques welcome!

@viny

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3yr

Hello guys! this is my first post on the site, despite being in the middle of the course. I don't know if anyone will respond, but I wanted to post my studies somewhere and get some feedback. I understand the shapes but I think my problem is that I don't know how to put the initial trapeze gesture, if anyone has any help I would be happy! I'm not American, sorry if there is any mistake in my English.