Hands

[Somber Daze]

.n . My hand drawing is, well lets just say it needs work.
Have any tips or techniques on drawing hands?  

[ChioroKisa]

Hands are hard.

I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper.

Let me explain:

Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc.

When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary.

After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art.

Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself.

http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpg

This is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw.

If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message.

Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills.

Hope this all has helped.

~Chi  

[Somber Daze]

ChioroKisa

Hands are hard.

I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper.

Let me explain:

Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc.

When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary.

After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art.

Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself.

http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpg

This is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw.

If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message.

Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills.

Hope this all has helped.

~Chi

You are an amazing person
Thank you so much, I'm sure this will help me.  

[ChioroKisa]

Darky1235

ChioroKisa

Hands are hard.

I suggest to draw hands without looking at the paper.

Let me explain:

Get some paper and a pencil. Put them on a flat surface and ready to draw. Before drawing, look at your hand and turn your body away from the paper. Face the opposite direction. Now, with your free hand, draw what you see with your hand. Don't worry if it looks like sh!t. It's meant to. Keep doing this, and slowly progress from your normal hand, to it being closed, holding objects, etc.

When doing this, you will also want to not release the pencil from the paper. No sketching. Sketching will only result in little knowledge. Only lift your pencil up from the paper if necessary.

After a while of drawing this, go from never looking at your paper to only looking at it 10% of the time. And when you do, don't think 'oh, I'm drawing a hand' think 'I'm drawing lines'. Don't sketch this time either. Just lines. This will train your brain into working with only the right side, the creative, artistic side. The reason why we're so bad at drawing is because we use the left side of the brain, the logical side. This isn't helpful when it comes to creating art.

Now, another thing is negative space. This is when you draw the spaces around an object, not drawing the object itself.

http://www.electricscotland.com/art/space.jpg

This is a very good picture that represents negative space and what it is. This picture is in my Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain college textbook. See all of the black? Well, the person only drew the outline of the white, instead of drawing the animal slowly by adding details. This will only result in using the left side of the brain, which will put you back to stage 1, which is not a good stage to be when learning how to draw.

If you have any more questions please feel free to either quote this or send me a Private Message.

Just to inform you I am a college student majoring in art. I'm becoming an animator and am learning many different techniques to better my art skills.

Hope this all has helped.

~Chi

You are an amazing person
Thank you so much, I'm sure this will help me.

Thank you c: I hope it will.  

[G.L.U.E.]

draw 50 of your hands in different poses every two weeks keep an eye for proportions and line of actions  

[Dot Candy]

I sketch hands out of my how to draw books, it helps me get more practice in and getting practice in different hadn positions. I also figured out a way to draw closed fists and hands out spread like those on female gaia avatars in a doodle like style, I could send a mini drawing tutorial to you but I bet your art is way better than mine. xD  

[suri bee]

If you're still interested in looking for a hand tutorial my friend put together an awesome one for our club Animation Student Collective. Here's a link to it in her blog. She also has a good one for feet in a later post in March I think.