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Don't Allow Learning To Draw Hands Be Such A Difficult Job
Despite their complexity, hands are not very hard to draw, but they do not break down into the simple shapes of balls and blocks that way many other subjects do. Here's how to avoid that issue of learning how to draw hands.
You will have to do about a dozen sketches prior to you really start to learn how to draw hands. Start by thinking about mittens, rather then hands. That's because you need to simplify the figure for yourself, but, as stated, the simple balls and cones and blocks shapes don't truly work with hands. So imagine a mitten instead.
The most useful thing to work out for hands is the palm. Notice how it is narrower near the wrist, wider at the end where the fingers come out. Then consider the thumb. It makes a beautiful sloping "V" shape away from the index finger when you look at the hand from the side. But if you see the hand with the tips of the fingers directing at you, you may notice something different. The "life line" in your palm, that denotes how the thumb moves. It is so well-defined on some people that it basically looks like you could pull the thumb off in a solid segment, with it breaking off right at the life line. That understanding may help you form the thumb area of the palm, and can make your drawings where the hand is holding something look very much realistic.
After you have gotten the palm portion of the hand down, sketch out what the 4 fingers are doing. Most artists "draw" or sketch the fingers first as a long bending squarish shape. In short, as all one shape. Then they outline each finger. But the fingers invariably fit within that virtual bounding box. It can stretch out like a fan, and may twist like a fan would, as well. Notice how the fingers all tend to bend in the same way -- you almost never see one finger straight and the others bent, unless someone is pointing. That's a great clue for how to express character or feeling, too. If someones hands were spread out flat, but, for example, their ring finger was bent sharply below, it would suggest they were uncomfortable about something, or probably that they had something to hide.
Start seeing people's hands. Knuckles and nail shape are very important, and as you learn to "describe" different kinds of nail shapes and knuckles with your pencil, you will suddenly be able to show age in hands.
Different drawing methods for drawing hands, lend themselves more or less to drawing hands. Coloring tools and charcoals are excellent for drawing hands, because you can very easily use the shadows and highlights to suggest the shape of the hands. Line drawings of hands, while they are very interesting, are more difficult. So if you are having trouble with drawing hands, use a charcoal or a shading tool, and put down the pencil altogether.
Finally, if you like to draw really good hands, you will have to study the bones and muscles that constitute them. If you were in art school they would help you to draw the bones of a hand in great detail. It Is a tough exercise, but you will never view a hand the same way again.
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