Assignment #3: Leg Muscles

Muscles of the Leg

Due next week

Like the arm, recognizable landmarks on the leg are informed by how the muscles of the leg wrap around the skeletal structure.

In your sketchbook, you are to draw three views of a leg as accurately, proportionate, and as detailed as possible, with the major muscles from the list provided below neatly labeled.  You may choose three of the four basic views of a leg: the anterior view, the lateral view, the posterior view, and the medial view. All three drawings should be on separate pages and independently labeled.  You may use any detailed image in Goldstein (see illustrations in Chap. 4) or research your own accurate image.  Use a finely sharpened pencil to accurately render as many muscles as would be visible in the view that you’ve chosen.  Do not crop your legs at all and be sure to fill your sketchbook page as much as possible without compromising proportion or accuracy.  You may not omit feet.   You are to label your drawings neatly and without compromising the details of the drawing with the list of muscles below. Label every list item that you can see once in each drawing.

• Gluteus medius
• Gluteus maximus
• Illio-tibial band
• Sartorius
• Gracilis
• Adductor magnus
• Vastus lateralis
• tensor fascia latae
• Rectus femoris
• vastus medialis
• Biceps femoris long head
• Biceps femoris short head
• Band of richer
• Semimembranosis
• Semitendinosis
• Popliteal fossa
• Soleus
• Gastrocnemius, medial head
• Gastrocnemius, lateral head
• Tibialis anterior
• Peroneus longus
• Extensor digitorum longus
• Flexor digitrum longus
• Achilles tendon
• Peroneus brevis
• Medial malleolus
• Lateral malleolus