Leg Bones Skelley Drawings

Hi @CHARLES DEIGHAN, great to have you back :) I think you did a nice job with perspective, especially in drawing #2. Feels really solid💪 - In #4 I think the femur of the leg closest to us, should be closer to the front surface of the thigh. - In #6, the femur of the leg furthest from us, should be drawn more to the right, so that it runs through the center of the form of the thigh. - I think you would benefit from studying how the leg bones, especially the femur, relate to the major forms of the leg. Try some drawings from imagination, using simple forms (maybe a cylinder for the femur and a cylinder for the thigh), then check how close you were with 3D models or images . You might have to open models from further down the course to see how the leg bones relate to the major form of the leg. I don't mean that you should study individual muscles, just look at the simple form that they make together and how the bone is placed with in it. This might seem overkill, but I think it will help. When I do a tracing, I rely much on what I think it should look like. I don't see where the femur runs through the thight, but I know where it "should" be, based on my understanding of it. Together with visible landmarks, you can place it quite accurately. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

You're focusing too much on the contour, try and draw the shapes as simply as you can, like a croquet mallet for the femur - make the forms simple shapes and then you can start blending them into eachother. I would reccomend reading how to draw my scott robertson because I believe you would benefit from gaining a clearer understanding of basic perspective principles. One of my instructors said, the more technically you are trained - the less technically you draw, which basically means that after studying enough, you're going to be able to draw contours that look like they have perspective because you will get a feeling of what is right - and you have the knowledge of construction to help you out of any pitfalls as you draw. Keep drawing and have fun, it's a marathon not a sprint!!

Really nice studies @Tsotne Shonia! Good strucutre, and the anatomy looks pretty accurate. I'll try to look for things to improve on for whenever you choose to revisit the leg bones. - In 4 and 6, the lower end of the femur feels a bit too large. - In 4, I think you misplaced the head of the fibula. I think it should be a little higher up, at the crease, where the biceps femoris inserts. - In 4, 5 & 6, the femur feels like it's a bit too close to the front surface; compare with Stan's examples. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

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Nice drawings! I like how you managed to get gesture into the drawings from the bone references. - There are some convergence issues here and there. Double check so that lines that are parallel in reality appear to converge to a common point. Particularly the x-lines (horizontal lines). - I find it difficult to trace the leg bones. It gets easier as you learn the surrounding muscles, which will support you with more clues. I did a few paintovers with suggestions on changes. One of the keys to be able to find the bones on a model, is to be able to draw the bones from imagination really well. I can't really see the bones in the reference, only a few landmarks, but as I imagine where they would have been based on my knowledge, I can place them quite accurately. Really nice job with the 3rd tracing :) Maybe just change the placement of the head of fibula and the patella. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work! (PS. As I did the paintover of your 2nd tracing I struggled with the top of the tibia. I checked with the 3D model and noticed that I usually draw the top of the tibia to large. You never stop learning XD)