post your figure drawings landmarks!

[tandy1000]

I was wondering if it was too much to ask if people posted the usual landmarks that they look for in the figure when they draw.. If a thread has already been made for this I apologize I've tried the search function but nothing that I truly wanted was brought up even though there were several threads that I did happen to find useful.

[Ramon Hurtado]

bones when they come to the surface. Read the brigdman book, that'll get you going.

clavicles, pit of the neck, condyles of the humerus,femur, tibia. the top and end of the fibula, the patella, the top of the illiac crest, the 10th rib, the 7th cervical, the scapulas, the sacrum, etc. Bone is more reliable than anything else, because humans are more similar at the skeletal level.

[Maxine Schacker]

What really helps "transparent drawing" is knowing and being able to place landmarks in relation to each other. For example, if I can see the pit of the neck I know where the 7th cervical is, so I can draw the rhythm line (top of the traps) with confidence, and feel the column of the neck in three dimensions. Artists imagine the circle of the neck, from the pit to the 7th cervical. From that artistic first rib (it's not anatomically "correct") I can draw the rib cage. I know the landmarks on the ribcage, so i can construct that too.

When you draw you aren't "copying" : you're reconstructing. If you know that the great trochanter, bottom of the sacrum and synthesis pubis are approx on the same level, it can help you to draw better. If you know that the high point of the pelvis is approx the same level as the belly button, you can find your way to the other pelvic landmarks (wide point, pelvic pt, secondary pt).

The leg springs from the secondary point, so in some poses imagining where the secondary point is helps you to draw an oblique view and spring the leg from the right place. This is how artists use artistic anatomy...which is not medical anatomy.