I don't draw often, because I'm ashamed of the results; I don't draw well because I don't draw often. Hopefully, this assigned blog will help a little in breaking that vicious cycle.
This week's focus was on the skull and neck-- this one was probable my favorite this week, I tried duplicating it later and modifying it as a cave-man skull for the Extinction project, but the results were suboptimal.
A good view of the muscles of the neck. Professor Jagers keeps referring to the trapezius as wrapping around the neck "like a towel"-- which is fairly accurate-- apparently it curves the shoulderblade and clavicle. Unfortunately, when I try to draw this it tends to get a bit exaggerated and folks start coming out a bit Cardassian.
Cutting away the trapezius, we have two cord-like muscles in the back and then a nice solid triangular shape.
As seen here.
The skull is apparently comprised of 22 distinct bones, but in adults they're joined together by inflexible sutures, functioning as a single bone. The reference skull was moved before I could finish this one.
Apparently this is the traditional Bridgeman method of drawing the simplified skull-- I like this a lot, and I think I may be able to apply it.
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