When you are looking at a painting of an old master or a modern-day artist you really like, where anatomical landmarks seem to have been subdued and, on the surface, it may appear as though there are a bunch of straight lines creating very straight fingers barely indicating the knuckles or most masses of the palm. Highlighting anatomical landmarks and sometimes exaggerating them in your hand drawings will help create expressive and believable drawings. Now let’s add some more information to your visual library by looking at important landmarks. Keep the above pointers in mind regarding the shapes when drawing hands. Make sure to indicate this in your hand drawings. Hold your hand out in front of you as in the diagram below, and observe this shift in planes. The hand steps down from the way it attaches to the arm. There is a change in the shape of the form from the forearm to the hand. When clenched into a fist, the thumb does not stretch beyond the second finger.Ħ. Notice that the palm of the hand has a hollow in the middle, forming a sort of a spoon-like shape, especially when the thumb is brought close to the hand. The palm has an arch to it pointing inward to the knuckles. Incorporate this backward curve when drawing hands with fingers flaring out, or the drawing will not look natural. When fingers are extended, their shape has a backward curve to it. The middle finger is the longest and is at the apex of an arch created by the fingers when they are extended. Observe two main masses of the hand: that of the palm and that of the thumb.Ģ. These masses shift, the palm folds, but the changes are minimal compared to the movement of the fingers. There are two main masses to deal with when drawing the hand: that of the palm and the one of the thumb attached to it. Keep the following in mind when observing the shapes you are drawing:ġ. Look at good reference (I have some great references for hand drawing at this pinterest board) and try to carefully observe what goes into the shape outline of the hand, what features are visible? Study the shape of the palm (or the back of the hand) and build the shape from there. This is a good section to start discussing the drawing process:ĭraw the contour shape of the hand first, before getting into the details of what goes inside of the shape. Without further ado, let’s get started with an overview of the basic shape of the hand.
The methods are more complex and are provided at Step 16 in my course Learn to Draw in 18 Steps.
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There, I teach how to draw hands by building a visual library.
If you need more help on learning to draw hands and anything in general, head over to the Academy. Details on my 10-day hand drawing challenge can be found here. if you are interested in drawing hands well, I highly encourage you to take this challenge. It works best when you learn something and apply it to drawing the same day, and then again over the next few days to solidify your understanding. Learning to draw is a discipline requiring both the acquisition of deep knowledge and its application while you draw. In preparation for this tutorial, I drew hundreds of hand studies over a period of 10 days, in my 10-day hand drawing challenge. Therefore, we will consider each one of them in turn as we learn to draw hands. It is easy to group 1 through 3 under anatomy in general, but there is more to learn under some of these topics than just anatomy. We will go through this process step-by-step below.ĭrawing hands encompasses having control over six areas, they are: If I had to summarize drawing hands in one paragraph, I would say: know some anatomy, then start with the shape and angle of the palm, then block-in the shape and silhouette of the entire hand, while minding proportions, before drawing the details or individual fingers.
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At the end of this article, I have compiled a checklist you can download to check against your drawings of hands. Since drawing hands is complicated, we are going to do what we did successfully in other tutorials, we are going to break it down into simple, easy to understand sections. The forms change dramatically depending on the gesture, and like with all good drawing we have to keep a lot of things in mind at once: anatomy, proportions, expression, etc. As you no doubt have already figured out, drawing hands is not an easy task.
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