08-06-2015, 07:05 AM
Awesome horse skeletons, appleseed!
Olooriel, I did a draw over. Finally got my yiynova working again and had to get used to Manga Studio. This was mostly a fun exercise for me but hopefully you get something out of it. I tried to show the basic forms of the bones with accuracy placed on proportions and perspective. I reduced the femoral epicondyles to their basic form of cylinders. The epicondyles roll on top of the tibial plateau below it. A good starting reference point to find first is the tibial tuberosity. You can easily find it on your own knee as the boney bulge that marks the top of the shin. The patellar tendon (that keeps the knee cap hovering over the front exposed side of the femoral epicondyles) connects to the tibial tuberosity. The tibial tuberosity also roughly lines up with the head of the fibula on the outside (lateral side) of the knee.
I suggest anyone trying to learn anatomy to not resist picking up on the technical terms. You dont have to sit down and study them like your studying for your finals to become a doctor. Knowing the names to specific parts like tibial tuberosity adds the needed understanding to really make you drawings accurate. If you dont have a name for something that means you easily forget its there and end up leaving it out of drawings. So start the habit of labeling major landmarks.
Olooriel, I did a draw over. Finally got my yiynova working again and had to get used to Manga Studio. This was mostly a fun exercise for me but hopefully you get something out of it. I tried to show the basic forms of the bones with accuracy placed on proportions and perspective. I reduced the femoral epicondyles to their basic form of cylinders. The epicondyles roll on top of the tibial plateau below it. A good starting reference point to find first is the tibial tuberosity. You can easily find it on your own knee as the boney bulge that marks the top of the shin. The patellar tendon (that keeps the knee cap hovering over the front exposed side of the femoral epicondyles) connects to the tibial tuberosity. The tibial tuberosity also roughly lines up with the head of the fibula on the outside (lateral side) of the knee.
I suggest anyone trying to learn anatomy to not resist picking up on the technical terms. You dont have to sit down and study them like your studying for your finals to become a doctor. Knowing the names to specific parts like tibial tuberosity adds the needed understanding to really make you drawings accurate. If you dont have a name for something that means you easily forget its there and end up leaving it out of drawings. So start the habit of labeling major landmarks.