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Anatomical Drawing

Jan 06, 2025, 2 min read

  • A collection of notes on drawing anatomies, with art style and medium abstracted away as much as possible.

General Guide

  • The three anatomical planes are useful as a reference for construction lines. Directional modifiers are also included. In parentheses are the “common” terms that will be used for convenience.

    • Transverse plane - the plane that separates the head from the feet
      • A view from the bottom or top is taken to be a slice of the coronal plane
      • Superior (Above) - closer to the top
      • Inferior (Below) - closer to the bottom.
    • Coronal Plane - the plane that separates the front and the back
      • A full frontal or back view is taken to be a slice of the coronal plane
      • Ventral - the belly or lower side.
      • Dorsal - the back or upper side
      • Anterior (Back) - pertaining to the back
      • Posterior (Front) - pertaining to the front.
    • Sagittal Plane - the plane that separates the left half from the right half
      • A side view is taken to be a slice of a sagittal plane .
      • Lateral (Side) - closer the left or right side
      • Medial (Middle) - closer to the middle

  • Notation: For convenience, lines that pass through the transverse, coronal, and sagittal plane will be referred to as frontal, longitudinal and sagittal lines. 1

  • Masses are decomposed into fundamental shapes that are easier to draw and capture the general shape. Corresponding anatomical parts are also provided.

    • In general remember that the masses exist in 3D. Applying principles of Perspective Drawing help. The depth of each mass is, ideally, apparent.
    • Lines that are drawn should follow the curvature of the body.

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Footnotes

  1. Technically these should be seen as axes of the body, but lines that are “close enough to being parallel” to these lines are also counted together. ↩