Q&A for How to Draw a Human Heart

The heart works like a pump and beats 100,000 times a day. The heart has two sides, separated by an inner wall called the septum. The right side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The left side of the heart receives the oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumps it to the body.

The main parts of heart are its 4 chambers (i.e. right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium and left ventricle). These are the most important parts of the heart.

The size of each heart varies from person to person, but an average measurement is the size of a fist.

Google search for anatomical drawings of the heart and use a textbook or website to help you label it.

Yes, you can draw it in a kind of boxed fashion. With a square split into four, top 2 for atria and bottom 2 for ventricles, and then just have the blood vessels leaving. Thats what I did for Biology as otherwise I'd be there forever trying to draw the heart. Maybe just Google 'heart diagrams box' for some examples.

The function of the heart is to pump blood around the body.

Mostly red, but you can use blue and maybe dark yellow. For the real colors, use purple, dark pink, dark and light red and blue.

Realism takes a lot of skill. You need to define a light source so you can render realistic light and shadow. You need to study proportion and shape. It takes practice.

in the middle of your chest, right under your neck.

The heart looks red because of the oxygenated blood flowing through it, but it's actually more of a brick color.

They take in oxygen, which is dissolved in the oxygenated blood brought to the heart by the pulmonary vein, and use it for the generation of energy. This energy is used to convert ADP molecules to ATP molecules. When the internal phosphate linkage in ATP is broken using water, a large amount of energy equivalent to 30.5kJ/mol is released.

Search online for a diagram, or use a textbook to reference how to label the heart. Draw lines connected to the part and on the other end of the line, write the name of the part.

You can use a darker shade of the same color, or a pencil. You should shade it where the outlines are to make it look more realistic.

Reference Draw the Internal Structure of the Heart .

The heart is located in the middle of the chest. However, the left side is the side that pumps blood through your entire body, so it is larger and more muscular than the right side, which only has to pump blood through the lungs. So although the heart is located in the middle, the left side "bulges" out more.

You can shade parts of the heart. Shading is a drawing technique to help you make it look 3-D and real.