Constructive drawing of a human head:
Constructive drawing of a human head with a shoulder girdle

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Constructive drawing of a human head with a shoulder girdle

Coming to a constructive drawing of the human head with the inclusion of the shoulder girdle in the drawing, of course, it is necessary to familiarize yourself in detail with the anatomical structure of the human shoulder girdle. In this section about drawing, we will not retell the sections of anatomy (since there is special literature for this), but only touch on the structural features of the human shoulder girdle structure that you need to know about.

The human shoulder girdle schematically represents a diamond-shaped inclined platform. The midline of the shoulder girdle area connects the jugular fossa and the seventh cervical vertebra. The transverse axial line of the shoulder girdle, passing through the midline, connects the acromions of the scapular bones.

When you include the shoulder girdle in a person’s head drawing, pay special attention to the position of the clavicles in space. The clavicles with the sternum end connect to the sternum, forming the jugular cavity, the margin end connect to the shoulder blades, generally representing a structure similar to a bow for shooting arrows or a bicycle handlebar.

The neck is a kind of pipe or cylinder that comes out of a diamond-shaped area with an inclination forward. The line connecting the neck and shoulder girdle passes through the jugular fossa and the seventh cervical vertebra. Structurally building the neck in space, try to perceive it precisely as a cylinder, without including sternocleidomastoid muscles in the volume. These muscles, wrapping the volume of the neck on two sides in an oblique line, visually give its wrong position in space. Because of this, a student who does not know the design features of the figure of a person’s head with a shoulder girdle creates a tilt of the neck in the opposite direction.