Anatomy Quick Tips: Arms

Hey everyone, Sinix here.

It's time for another episode of
Anatomy Quick Tips,

the series that is here to give you
some useful observations

and help you feel more comfortable with

drawing people from imagination.

Today, we'll be talking about arms

and also dont be alarmed but

this all-arm video puts us near the end of this series,

only two more videos remain

regardless for now let's just focus on these upper appendages

This probably wont be the funniest video in this series or anything

but it will be definitely be the most humourous

so roll up your sleeves and lets get to work

starting out with structure

weve alreday covered both shoulders and hands

in other videos

so we just need to make sure we can bridge these things together

im sketching a quick front side and back few of the shoulders to start

seeing a shoulder and torso without the arm

always reminds me of a little lamb or something

but anyway were going to focus on

the skeletal breakdown of the arm first

of course we have a single major bone

in the upper arm

and two in the lower arm

connected at the elbow

but as i draw that, the first thing i actually want to point out

is that things arent in a perfect straight line

you can even take a moment

and try to see this yourself

just hold one arm out straight

and close your opposite eye

now do your best to look directly straight down

the barrel of that massive gun you call

your upper arm

if you line up your sight from shoulder to elbow