Life drawing was cancelled for the last two weeks and I was out of town for one so I've been left without a model to draw. This coincided perfectly with reading in one of my craniosacral books that the best way to understand the sphenoid bone is to draw it from a few different angles.
The sphenoid is the bone that is in the very center of your head. It touches every other bone in the cranium. It's said to look like a dragonfly or a bat. In Japanese it's known as "Cho Kay Hotsu," the butterfly bone. It is considered the visionary bone. The front of your brain sits right on top of it and nestled in a little saddle in the middle is the pituitary gland. Further back and deeper in the center of the brain is the pineal gland, also considered the third eye, relating to intuition and perception.The pineal gland is shaped like a pine cone and what's really cool is it's actually filled with rods and cones just like your regular eyes.
1 comment:
thank you for taking a simple bone and making it into a story.
Tara
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