Work From Painting I

This is my latest work I have finished in my Painting 1 class. It was essentially the first large painting I have ever done, as well as the first painting I have done on a wood board instead of paper. I am very pleased on how it turned out but originally the image was to look much different. The background gave me a hard time, so there is a lot of history built up in the paint from layers on top of layers and reworking it with sandpaper. It is intended to tell a narrative but oddly enough it is not intended to tell a narrative about the current war, which most people have assumed this painting is about.

Quadriceps

This is the quadricep muscles, as approved and built upon from the last muscle update post. This shows the full quadricep muscle set which attach from the pelvis bone and run along down the Femur attaching to the top of the Tibia. The first Image shows the front of the leg and the corresponding quadricep muscle mass crossing over the Femur. The adductors can also be seen running diagonally from the top half of the femur to the pelvis area.

This second image Shows the profile view or the Side view of the Skeleton. From here you can see the Glutes very slightly as well as the outer side of the leg. From Here the attaching points on the Pelvis can be seen at the top of the hips, where there is a visual change in muscle direction.






The third image display the back of the Skeleton. Here the glutes can be seen how they overlap the quadricep muscles in the back of the leg. This also shows how the quadricep muscles diverge apart and form an upside down V around the back of the knee where the Femur and Tibia meet. The quadriceps then wrap around the front of the leg attaching around the sides of the knee cap location.



This last image displays the inside area of the thigh. Mainly to show how the quadraceps attach at the base of the pelvis and runs down the leg wrapping to the front. This can be seen from the diagonal line which the muscles make. One other muscle can also bee seen which is the Gracilis, running from the front of the leg wrapping around the inside of hte leg to the back of the knee and then returning to attach to the front of the Tibia.

Glutes

These three images show the muscles that create the hips and the glutes. Primarily they run from the top of the pelvis bone down to the top of the Tibia. With exception of the bottom of the glutes attaching to the top half of the femur. In the fist picture you can see where the attachment on the tibia is located and how the muscle wraps around from the back to attach in the front of the tibia.


In this image you can see the total length of the muscles, running from the pelvis bone's ilium to the tibia. Specifically you can see how the muscles connect to each other in the middle of the femur and form one muscle to run down the femur. It can't be seen clear here but the glutes are actually not connected to the rest of the muscle mass.





The last image to the left shows the separation of the glutes. As well it shows the attachment of the glutes to the back of the Femur bone. Also this image shows better the wrapping of the muscles around the femur bone and to the front of the tibia where it connects.






In class we were missing Reuben and Eric unfortunately didn't have his model that day. So comparing both mine and Melissa's model we only found a couple differences. Melissa's muscles didn't wrap around from the back to the front, instead they attached to the back of the tibia, where mine wrapped around. We referred back to the book to find out which way was correct and found out that it most likely attaches to the front of the tibia. Other then that, both of the muscles seemed to have the correct muscle masses.

Clay Muscle Structure

My process of making the muscles was to form a thin layer of muscle the approximate size and shape of the actual muscle. Then to apply the muscle to the figure. Afterwords I would add fiber marks along the muscle if needed. There really was no problem aside from trying to get the clay cleaned off the previous figure since it was jammed in every crack. I have used clay before to create models so working with the clay was no challenge at all, it was a nice break from the normal drawing. The only frustration i found was the image in the book for the rectus abdominis had two different images. One showed the muscle flat on top of the quadratus lumborum while the other showed it cutting through the quadratus lumborum. Other then that it was pretty self explanitory, just took some time.

One thing of advice I have for other people is think thin. I've noticed on some of the models from last semester that people have huge bulking muscles everywhere on the body, with some out of perportion. While there are muscles that are big and bulky, not all muscles alone are huge, sometimes its a combination of a flat muscles layers that build up the apperance of muscles, so in places like the back or chest theres a few layers on top of each other that make up the muscles that can be seen from outside the body.