Anatomy for artists (and runners)
January 31st, 2009 by lunaman
In line with my new decision to link together my art and running lives a bit more, can I just mention the fantastic book Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form by Eliot Goldfinger (available from Amazon via the link – other book shops are available). I’ve had the book on the shelves for ages, and even though I haven’t sketched from the human figure in over ten years, it’s beautifully illustrated and much more detailed than some of the more ‘artistic’ books I’ve seen. The model in the photographs is spectacularly muscled, but not in a body-builder kind of way, just in the way that his muscles are so clearly defined.
So I can now assuage my art appetite even while attempting to discover which of the muscles of my lower leg is currently giving me grief and preventing me from running more than two days in a row. Is it the Tibialis Posterior, or the Soleus, or quite possibly even the Peroneus Longus? Ah, self diagnosis with an anatomy book – it simply must be safer than posting a question on a forum! Don’t worry, I am seeing an osteopath next week.