10-29-2014, 04:18 AM
Not a lot to show so far this week, been trying to get to grips with anatomy again so haven't been doing a whole lot of painting. I've spent the whole of today trying to get to get my head round the muscles in the arms, but I seem to be really struggling with it. Most of the day has been spent tracing over photos and trying to rough out the muscle structures, I seem to be okay from certain POV's but others I just can't seem to get, anyway, this is what I managed to get done.
![[Image: ArmMusclesOverPhotoRef.jpg]](http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr51/Chachava/ArmMusclesOverPhotoRef.jpg)
I wanted to colour code everything so it would hopefully help me understand things a little better, and it's definitely helped, but I'm still having a reasonable amount of trouble with it, especially the bottom right one, I even started drawing the outlines of the muscles on my arm with a whiteboard marker to see if that would help.
I did use quite a few resources which were really helpful, and hopefully will be to others as well.
Colour coded arms - This is where I got the colours I used from, I originally found this a few years back on deviantArt, but the user has since left dA and hidden all of his deviations, thankfully I managed to find this blog which also had the images.
BioDigital Human - A free 3D anatomical model which runs in your browser.
And several books, 'Atlas of Human Anatomy for Artists - Stephen Rogers Peck', 'Anatomy for Artists - Sarah Simblet' and 'Strength Training Anatomy - Frederic Delavier', I'd definitely recommend that last one, it's not an art book, but it is VERY useful.
Anyway, hopefully those links will be useful to some people.
I wanted to colour code everything so it would hopefully help me understand things a little better, and it's definitely helped, but I'm still having a reasonable amount of trouble with it, especially the bottom right one, I even started drawing the outlines of the muscles on my arm with a whiteboard marker to see if that would help.
I did use quite a few resources which were really helpful, and hopefully will be to others as well.
Colour coded arms - This is where I got the colours I used from, I originally found this a few years back on deviantArt, but the user has since left dA and hidden all of his deviations, thankfully I managed to find this blog which also had the images.
BioDigital Human - A free 3D anatomical model which runs in your browser.
And several books, 'Atlas of Human Anatomy for Artists - Stephen Rogers Peck', 'Anatomy for Artists - Sarah Simblet' and 'Strength Training Anatomy - Frederic Delavier', I'd definitely recommend that last one, it's not an art book, but it is VERY useful.
Anyway, hopefully those links will be useful to some people.