Back at Stout

It was great to be home but this week wasn’t the nice slow start I would have liked after a break. Personal drama was definitely foreshadowing the tough couple of weeks in the future.

For this week Monday was the start of a new area of the body- the shoulders. I have been looking forward to this as I had always had a problem with the idea that the rib cage is an egg. I thought it should be an upside down egg because the torso seems larger at the top. With my new understanding of the scapula and the clavicles I can follow this approach.

The muscles of those bones were assigned next and they were fairly easy. The only question is how accurate mine are. I think I finally have a decent idea how to use the text book.

The next class was only half full thanks to unfortunate weather but I didn’t mind at all. We were drawing the scapula on the back and the clavicles on the front. As I drew the scapula I realized how little I knew of it before. I picked it up pretty easily. Part way through the class we heard that afternoon classes were cancelled and the model was chatty for the first time. It’s good that she feels comfortable enough to talk to us, as an awkwardly silence wouldn’t help me focus.

Friday was not as easy. Though the muscles were easier to pick out on our other model I had a much harder time depicting them. I think this is because I was trying to place the new muscles that we had been assigned but not yet built. There were loads of them. I am looking forward to drawing next week, after I finish this week’s muscles, as the figure will be almost complete.