Assignment #4
1) Showing the difference between bone and muscle was challenging in that I couldn't find a way to really show both over top of each other at once without losing a serious amount of readability. Showing the two at once would've been great, but that wasn't the point of my project; I wanted to focus on the pectoral muscle and have an accurate depiction of bones as a basic foundation for that.
2) In order to keep the compoistion stable I had to generalize more than I would have liked to about the actual tension and stretching of the muscle. In an ideal world, I could create an accurate pectoral in its various positions and leave it at that, but I felt that didn't read clearly, simply due to the limitations presented by the cave technology.
3) The parts of the wing I represented are depicted using fairly natural visual characteristics. The bones are drawn based on anatomical drawings I made of bat skeletons. The pectoral I crafted is more of a hypothetical one because I found it quite difficult to make out the muscle on any specimens that I found. I used my own pecotral muscle to guess where I figured the muscle would be in each stage of the down-stroke.