Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Drawing a Skeleton

When I was in fifth grade, I was the second best artist in the class. I'm not sure exactly how this was determined, except I remember everyone thought I could draw well but there was this one guy named Kevin who was better than me.

One day, we had a challenge in our class: to draw a skeleton from memory. There was a judge who was going to walk around and decide which skeleton drawing was the best, and it was going to be posted on, like, some bulletin board somewhere.

I had a lot of doctors in my family, and I thought this was a challenge where I had a chance to beat Kevin. So I drew my skeleton, although I honestly didn't really know what I was doing.

The judge kept going back and forth between my drawing and Kevin's drawing. It was agonizing. But finally, they picked.... Kevin's. Of course.

Anyway, I was just thinking about that day and wondering how good a drawing of the human skeleton I could do from memory now, since I've actually taken anatomy and all that. So here's my present attempt, totally from memory, no cheating:


How do you think I did? And let me point out that completely perfect ankle mortise on the left.

10 comments:

  1. That's great. Now draw the brachial plexus, using 5 different colors. Then choreograph and perform an interpretive dance.

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  2. Grumpy: I have to go to work, but when I get back, I am totally going to draw the brachial plexus using 5 different colors.

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  3. I think it's pretty impressive. When did you take up drawing? Was it something that you just did for fun when you were growing up? Just curious.

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  4. Don't forget the interpretive dance.

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  5. The brachial plexus will never be the same after this. Used to be challenging, now if you have 15 seconds and MARMU, you're good.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTas7ijp0YE

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  6. I think a video of the interpretive dance is in order, now that you mention it....

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  7. You left out the sesamoids of the thumb. Just saying.

    When you do your interpretive dance, do a segment on the importance of sesamoids to make up for it :-)

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  8. Maybe tomorrow. I'm too tired for interpretative dances or even Viennese waltzes.

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  9. OMDG: I used to love Archie comics, so I spent most of grade school drawing Betty and Veronica over and over. I don't consider most of the stuff I draw on here to be "good"... they're mainly just doodles.

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  10. Love the nipple-esque coccyx! lol

    ps... I would like to see the interpretive dance as well!

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