Figure Drawing - Individual Muscles - Neck

Short Neck Muscles The following three muscles are located on the back of the neck, just behind the skull: the obliquus capitis caudalis, the obliquus capitis cranialis, and the rectus capitis dorsalis major. They are covered by narrow and wide tendons and thin muscles, yet they help create the fullness on the back of the neck, determined in large part by the width of the atlas (the first neck vertebra) and the vertical projection of the axis (the second neck vertebra). Obliquus capitis caudalis (Large oblique muscle, Axoido-atloideus) • Origin: Entire side of the expanded upright spine of the...