Drawing Hands: Some Great Resources
Drawing hands is hard! It probably is what separates an amateur artist from a professional, and I am always working on mine. Here are some excellent tutorials and resources for learning how to draw hands:
(1) How to Draw Hands- Tutorials - Draw As a Maniac - a series of reference illustrations and instructions on drawing hands
(2) Handy Art Reference Tool - an app that provides hands in various poses that you can rotate and change the lighting on
(3) Human Anatomy Fundamentals: How to Draw Hands - covers the anatomy of hands and how they move
(1) How to Draw Hands- Tutorials - Draw As a Maniac - a series of reference illustrations and instructions on drawing hands
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| Screenshot of Draw as a Maniac's hand reference post |
(2) Handy Art Reference Tool - an app that provides hands in various poses that you can rotate and change the lighting on
(3) Human Anatomy Fundamentals: How to Draw Hands - covers the anatomy of hands and how they move
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| screenshot of bones of a hand |
Great resource, sylvia. Hands are difficult to draw. And I thought it was just me who can't draw hands. I forwarded your post to my son who found this helpful. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Romelle. Glad it was helpful.
DeleteI usually use my standby technique - a circle and 3 fingers. :/
ReplyDeleteWhen I was young, I had a book on how to draw cartoons, and it said the difference between cartoon characters and real people is that cartoons only have four fingers. I always remembered that.
DeleteI used to draw hands on backwards - a lot. I still often pause and hmmm... how's that again? Which side does the thumb go?
ReplyDeleteI have seen an old master painting where the thumb was on the wrong side so you are not alone!
DeleteThanks, Sylvia! Hands are tricky, I am bookmarking this post :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Von.
DeleteI'm actually decent at drawing hands (because when I was supposed to be paying attention in class in university, I was sketching my hands instead). But thank you for the resources because nobody can be *too* good at drawing them. :)
ReplyDeleteI draw my hands a fair amount, but not enough to be really good.
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