Here are some of my 5 min hand gestures!

redoing submission, didn't like how my previous one looked.

This was a very challenging but intressant assignment. I had to regress to pencil for a while as I was practicing, to convince myself that I could draw at all. For some strange reason it all became easier when I began to sketch with a lighter coloured pen. I have no clue as to why!

Lots of hands, I feel like I'm struggling with thumbs primarily. The form there is just so weird sometimes.

Yikes these are not great lol. But I am forcing myself to post stuff. Gotta show up to get better. This has been a fun course so far :)

Here are some of the hands I’ve done. Still need a lot of work, but coming along. The ones with two hands were really tricky. I found it hard to keep it gestural on them while plotting out the proportions in relation to each other.

Took me two hands to catch on to the 5 minute time limit. :D The first two took an unknown amount of time, the rest were reasonably close to 5 minutes.

I never knew Sketching with just pen could be so liberating although plenty of mistakes are to be made I still enjoyed going through these and building from that

It seems like that course will take one lesson a week and one theme at a time 😁 Thanks for a good reason to keep on practicing ! today - female beautiful hands! Male and couples will come later p.s. Odd comment to say to anyone outside of this community .. but I’ve finally found a perfect place to wet on my finger to make more delicate and versatile smudges… good day to everyone reading that!😉🤣

As i see how you draw i realized that i have to manage more my line quantity, i do mindlessly strokes over another without any purpose. Less is much more i think.

Here are my attempt for this assignment. Starting out with gesture really helped. Some angles of the hand was pretty tough. What do you guys think?

5 min gestures

2-3 min hands practice. I feel like spending more time on each hand doesn't help, since I don't think adding more details fixes it. I feel like it's better to start over than to spend more time adding details to fix things.

I happened to already be sketching hands in blue ink (2nd image) before the course was announced. I supplied the 2nd image to share where I'm already at. The poses in the 2nd image (pre-course drawings) were all started as gestures and worked up with construction using pretty much the recommended approach in the videos, just longer than 5 minutes. But for some reason the 5 minute poses I did today (1st image) were stiff and timid... In the first image, the first few I felt like I captured the pose in 2 minutes and moved on, the rest feel stiff and disjointed. I feel like I can really push the flexibility if I just relax and stop caring so much about the result. I'll do more of these 5 minute gestures and come back. I used the boxes to cover up when I have too many messy lines when it ruins the read of the forms I intend, or when the form doesn't read without seeing the negative space clearly.