VISUALISE AND CONSTRUCT BONES

Last issue, we discussed the fundamental importance of studying bones when striving to understand anatomy in figure drawing. We made the distinction between 2D observational anatomy and 3D constructive anatomy. This month I would like to outline a method for studying this construction. The ultimate goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of these forms to be able to draw them from any angle from memory.

We will explore how to go about performing this study for the skull, but this approach can