Assignment #6: Hand and Foot Bones

Hand and foot drawings with superimposed skeletons

Due next week

Choose your most interesting hand drawing and your most interesting foot drawing from the previous sketchbook assignment.  You are to re-draw them, superimposing the skeletal structure of each into the drawings (do not merely make a skeleton hand and foot without the flesh surrounding it).   Each drawing should fill a sketchbook page.

Research the skeletal anatomy of hands and feet enough to be able to accurately place each bone into its respective spot.  You are to be anatomically accurate, allowing the various processes and recesses of each individual bone to be expressed.  Do not merely make cartoony versions of bones.  The shape of each distal phalanx should be separate and distinct from the shape of each median phalanx, for example.  Also, be sure that your skeleton matches up with any visible landmarks caused by boney protrusions, so that the medial malleolus of the tibia actually causes the protrusion known as the inside ankle bone.

Both of these drawings should be as made to be as believable and as beautifully crafted as possible.  Take into consideration the perspectival shape of foreshortened bones, plus the necessary overlapping of bones that such drawings require.  Use any reference sources available to finish the project as long as you yourself are the one making the drawings.

Good luck!