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Anatomy: poses with Musculature Week 5.2

 Anatomy poses with Musculature


This was a practice run I chose to redraw Usain Bolt because of his musculature and relatively low body fat percentage allowing me to plot the different volumes of his muscles I focused especially on the quadriceps and the parts of the hamstring that you can see because it was my weak point when it came to defining musculature in the lower body.




The second athlete I chose to trace over was Mike Mentzer "The Uncrowned Mr Olympia". I chose this pose because a main focus of the pose were the legs, his left thigh is the furthest forward limb in the pose. 

In my process I plot out the chest first using a Bridgeman shape for the ribcage given his wider frame, next was the pelvis, and for this pose I mapped out the portion of the holes in pelvis that you wouldn't necessarily see to help place the legs. As a side note for this pose I chose not to place in the bones and instead map out the volumes this would help me later down the line when adding volumetric lighting.

 













After using my trace as reference this is what I came out with the overall silhouette is near spot on but there are a few issues that I have with it. 

The pose I drew was lacking in contrapposto in Mike's original pose his weight is on his back foot and the shoulders and hips reflect that. The shoulders in my replication, are close to parallel with the floor, they should have a slightly wider angle than they have. I have illustrated they in my annotations.


This image is here as a note to use this shape when constructing legs regardless of the level of musculature. I can use the kite like shape to place the knee and then use the corners to place the bottom of the quads and the upper portion of the gastrocnemius.
















This was just a bit of fun


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