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Hi Josseline, I apologize if this is a double post. It didn’t seem to go through the first time.
I’m working through the Russian course as well. I am paused at the skeleton of the head at the moment to make sure I really understand the connections and shapes of the bones. One of the exercises I recently did was to “explode” the skull when I drew it to focus on each bone while still seeing how each relate to each other. I found it really helpful.
Because I haven’t work on the muscular portion I don’t have any help on that, but I did look at your skulls and had a couple of notes. This is just based on what I’m learning of the structure and what seems typical for most skulls.
On the first skull, I just wanted to point out that in blue is the Temporal Bone. The way it’s drawn almost looks as though that zygomatic process is coming from the zygomatic, but it’s actually a part of the temporal bone. On the second skull, I emphasized the portion in red that should encompass the zygomatic. I hope this helps. 🙂
I’m slowly working through the Russian course myself. I paused in the skeletal portion of the head because I found I wasn’t quite grasping the connection of the maxillary to zygomatic and the frontal bone. I sort of “exploded” a few of the skull models I used in order to focus on each bone and their connection to each other. I found that really helped with the most recent study that I finished.
I haven’t really studied the muscular portion yet so I can’t say much on that other than I think your rendering and hatching technique is really great. Just a few comments, on the skulls which again, I love your hatching.
I just marked up a few areas on the skulls that you may want to look over some more. Not having your references in front of me, this is just based on what I’m noticing from different skull models, text books, and the Russian Course. On the first one, the blue is the Temporal portion with the red being the Zygomatic. I would just say that it looks like the zygomatic process is part of the zygomatic, but it’s actually the connection from the temporal. In the second skull, I outlined approximately where the zygomatic would be. It should jut forward more along the orbital area and then come down. I don’t know if this is helpful. 🙂 Great studies!
Day 8
Thank you Elizabeth and Deborah!
I liked this angle because you can see the curvature of the maxillary really well and how the zygomatic connects. The lighting from the skull model makes a difference of how the curves and shapes of the bones are seen. Very interesting.
Day 7
Ok…..Probably one more of these “exploded” views and then I’m going to work on another whole skull to see what I’ve learned. The zygomatic gives me the most trouble, I think, so these different angles have been really helpful is really seeing how it’s separate yet related to the other facial bones.
Day 5 and Day 6
I didn’t post yesterday, but here are day 5 and 6’s progress. I chose a side profile of the skull next. What I’m really focusing on with the rendering is recognizing that the lights and shadows are real forms of the different bones. I’m not trying to copy, but actually understand what I’m seeing. Until doing these exercises, I never noticed the superciliary arches, but now having rendered them twice, I can really see how they form in the frontal bone. It’s pretty cool.
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