The Art of Movement

Student's Name

Payton Hedderman, Minnesota State University, MankatoFollow

1st Student's Major

Cross-Disciplinary Studies, Honors Program

1st Student's College

Arts and Humanities

Students' Professional Biography

I grew up from Sturgis, South Dakota. I am an Interdisciplinary Studies major, with my goal areas being Biology, Graphic Design, and Marketing. I am hoping to pursue a master's degree in Biomedical Illustration.

Mentor's Name

Leah White

Mentor's Email Address

leah.white@mnsu.edu

Mentor's Department

Honors Program

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Hedderman, P. (2025). The art of movement. Journal of Undergraduate Research, 25(1), 64-67. https://doi.org/10.56816/2378-6949.1231

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