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WIP
sorry for anyone who for some reason has their notifications on for my blog and thought this was a new post, it's not! simply just me posting my sketches I did over the week while watching house md for the 37th time. I'm not proud of them but felt like posting them because I haven't posted in a while.
side blog @chuuyasprettygirl
dividers by @cafekitsune
sorry for anyone who for some reason has their notifications on for my blog and thought this was a new post, it's not! simply just me posting my sketches I did over the week while watching house md for the 37th time. I'm not proud of them but felt like posting them because I haven't posted in a while.
side blog @chuuyasprettygirl
dividers by @cafekitsune
⚠ CW:GORE ⚠
Goretober day 7:Organs
Yay another 1 am post let's see if I can keep this trend up! Was feeling really uninspired for this one lol.
#05 _Torso, bones (ribcage side notes)
The ribcage is made from twelve ribs per side (so 24 in total), all attached to the spinal column on the back, each pair to its own vertebrae. They then reach up to the front, but only the first 7 pairs attach directly to the sternum (breastbone), and are therefore called true ribs, while the next 5 pairs are called false ribs and they’re basically attached to the upper ribs (the last two actually just floats).
But that’s not too much important to know when you draw. Instead, it’s interesting to notice how the whole ribcage has an overall three-dimensional oval shape (like a bird cage, they say, especially the upper part, and especially if you think about its volume in 3D). In thinner people, it’s easy to see some ribs surface to the front. What you see, by the way, it’s all cartilage, since the bone starts just after that.
Trivia of the day: as we just said, you can see easily notice the arch formed by the ribs under the sternum (skeletical arch) on thin people, but if you look at more muscular bodies *cough*Cullen*cough*, you’d probably see a rounder, lower arch instead, defined by the upper section of the abs. This one is called Greek arch, since old Greek artists loved to make it veeery visibile in their sculptures! ^^
