#Xpressive hands skin#

The complicated collection of bone, muscle, tendon, fat, and skin of the palm becomes a simple box. IвЂ™m gonna say it a lot in this lessonвЂ¦ itвЂ™s important to step back and think about the simple forms. Once the idea is clear, weвЂ™ll start constructing the hands using simple forms. You gotta feel the expression of the hand pose youвЂ™re drawing. Just like when youвЂ™re drawing facial expressions.

When youвЂ™re drawing hands you have to be an actor. That makes the pose a bit more interesting. When I try to spread my fingers as far as I can, my wrist flexes a little and my fingers bend back. If the action is the fingers spreading, think about what happens when you spread them farther. And you always have your own hand that you can use to figure it out.ДЄnd donвЂ™t draw boring hands. Imagine this clearly in your mind before you make a mark. Can we see the back of the hand or the palm? How much of the front are we seeing? Or are we looking at it from the back? What is each finger and thumb doing? What about the wrist? Figure out the angle weвЂ™re looking at the hand from. The first step is to get a clear idea of the hand youвЂ™re gonna draw. But all this stuff ties together, so letвЂ™s get startedвЂ¦ If you want to draw simple hands, rather than learn a simple process to draw real hands, I also have a lesson on drawing Cartoon Hands. ThereвЂ™s prerequisites that make it challenging, like anatomy, perspective and shading. Keep in mind, even though the process itself is quite simple, drawing hands is never going to be easy. ItвЂ™s also a great process if youвЂ™re drawing from reference. In this tutorial IвЂ™ll show the process that has helped me to draw hands accurately from imagination.