The Art of Movement

I wanted to do this project for my Interdisciplinary Studies Capstone to showcase some of my skills and to articulate what I want to do with my degree. I want to go into Medical Illustration, and I want to make science easier for people to learn. To do this I want to take complicated subjects and remake them into simpler terms. For my capstone, I decided to take anatomy of the arm, leg, and abdominal organs and draw them on professional women athletes. I thought that expressing this anatomy in less of a clinical way is one strategy to make it easier for people to learn. To make these art pieces I first brainstormed athletes I wanted to include in the pieces and settled on Ilona Maher, Caitlin Clark, and Tara Davis-Woodhall. I decided after that to do the leg muscles on Maher, arm muscles on Clark, and the abdominal organs on Davis-Woodhall. I chose to use a variety of different mediums including charcoal, graphite, colored pencils, watercolor, and acrylic paint. Once everything was illustrated, I took out a handful of muscles I wanted to highlight, so I made little labels for the muscle or organ shown.