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Now I'm workin' on a pelvis. Female, I believe.

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Just started the veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery rough lineart for the Twin Peaks Agent Cooper digital painting. Will be working on this and a lion/savannah cut paper piece for a friend for the next few weeks.

This and Thackery are 2 out of 3 tv character portraits I've sketched out to digital paint- the other being Rust Cohle from True Detective. After that, thinking of drawing Sophie from Carnivale, Eva from Hell on Wheels, and my fav lady protagonist on tv, Michonne from The Walking Dead.

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Rust variation of the digital painting I had posted last week. Originally, the painting had this background color, but my sister was the piece in progress and thought blue looked better so I kept it that way.

Dr. Thackery from The Knick.

Rust variation

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Nature and anatomy collide. Kate's portfolio is absolutely nuts and gorgeous.

Sculpture by Kate Macdowell

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Decided to leave this anatomy study (3D render I used as reference snagged from the googles is the second image, not sure who original artist is) as is and move onto some other things. This was only worked on when I had a few minutes of free time here and there at work, hence the unfinished state and roughness.

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Doctors, The New American Gods.

Okay, so, it's not écorchés. But it's sort of anatomy related! I recently re-watched both True Detective and Twin Peaks, and fell in love with the first episode of The Knick and it's dark, grisly world of early 20th century surgery and innovation. So I decided to do a series of fanart posters- starting with The Knick. Next up, Twin Peaks.

Here's Dr. Thackery, the arrogant, brilliant, addicted doctor played by Clive Owen. His character is totally non-delightful and awful to pretty much everyone (so far), but super, super fun to watch. I think there was a line in the first episode about doctors being the "new American Gods", especially the surgeons who pulled surgery out of the dark ages and into the modern ages.

A halo of scalpels and syringes, for innovation and addiction.

Some work in progress shots. As you can see by the initial pencil sketch in the lower right, there were some anatomy and proportion issues to fix, plus figuring out the "halo" in a more organized way.

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Currently reading, among other things, The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase. It's about an outbreak of plague in San Fran in the early 20th century, brought on ships infested with rats with yersinia pestis-carrying fleas. Some cringeworthy descriptions of bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague. I've always (okay, maybe since I was like 12 or something) been interested in epidemics and particularly plague.

Thankfully creepy as shit plague doctor outfits were out of use by then.

This gif is really hypnotic.

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Hell yeah.

Get ready. The Knick premieres tomorrow at 10 PM on Cinemax. 

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Superficial muscles of the thorax and back

While all muscles in a region are affected by a workout, when anaerobic workouts are undertaken, the superficial muscles are the ones that form the majority of the bulk that you see in hardcore athletes and bodybuilders.

There are deep “flat” muscles beneath the superficial layers in these regions, and below and lateral to those, there are the “long” muscles. These are all skeletal muscles - voluntary and striated. Surrounding the muscles is connective tissue, including the linea alba (the dividing line between the two halves of the abdomen), the fascia, and the aponeuroses. All of these consist of dense, fibrous connective tissue, and protect the body from intrusion, as well as protecting the muscles from each other, as they flex and relax in different directions. Atlas and Text-Book of Human Anatomy. Dr. Johannes Sobotta, 1914

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Decided to step away from the 3D side of things for a bit and get back to the basics. I heard about ecorche drawing and decided to give it a try. This was more challenging than I initially thought.  It’s easy to not pay attention to how the muscles bend and stretch when modeling in t-poses, which is 9x out of 10 how I model. This was definitely a good study and I intend to do many more. Stay tuned.

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Kinda rough towards the end, but I was getting tired, hah. Ignore the mess of the arms, I'm really bad at arms- the way the muscles twist is confusing to me. More practice needed. Anyway, a rework of an exercise from Scott Eaton's online anatomy for artists course. Écorché of neck, upper back, upper arms, and chest and abdomen.

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From source: France ecorche horse ca. 1920s.

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Gorgeous work!

The final set of ecorche from my anatomy class with Scott Eaton. Class has been fantastic, looking forward to his portraiture/facial anatomy class in October.

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Fantastic horse ecorche (flayed anatomical model revealing muscular and skeletal structure underlying the skin) sculpted by Aerie-.

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ivory carving, 1640

spamula

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Expose by strng on Flickr.