Anatomy of the Human Body
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Arms(101 Lessons )
Arm Bones
Hand Bones
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Eleanor Goldsmith
3mo
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3mo
A super exciting sketchy style!
Peter Tinkler
1yr
My latest hand study, Conte on newsprint.
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1yr
Nice hand drawing! I really like your line drawing. The fingers look good.
The shadows look good but I think you could add a touch more to the halftones on the palm.
That is all. Keep up the good work!
@younchen
3yr
2022/11/17 followed stan's tutorial step by step
@younchen
3yr
2022/11/16 my attamption..
Sandra Süsser
3yr
Hand test and study #5
JASON WILLIAMS
3yr
I tried to emphasize the pressure between the finger and thumb. Looking at the reference I think I missed a bit on the shadows of the wrist. Could have designed that much better.
Sita Rabeling
3yr
This afternoon’s work, charcoal pencil on news print. The hand is about 23/18 cm. It’s easy to get lost in the details. There are far too many I think and the palm might be too long.
Have a nice Sunday.
Marco Sordi
4yr
2021/11/17. Hi everybody. Here's my second attempt for this assignment. thanks.
Marco Sordi
4yr
2021/11/3. Good morning everyone. Since the previous assignment took 2 hours I decided to use for this one a simpler approach. My intention was to finish in 20 min. more or less. After established the gesture and the general proportion a drew the core shadows. Then I added a very simple shadows just to see if and how they could effect the tridimensional forms. Thanks for any suggestions or advices.
@leeschlosser
4yr
I don’t know what the goal of this particular assignment is. If it was to get the shapes and form correct in regards to your reference then you did a good job. If I could see the reference I could judge better. I’m not super intimate with hand anatomy but the middle finger in your assignment seems off. It might be that the fleshy bit on the bottom segment needs to come down more. Also something about the wrist seems off, maybe too narrow in comparison with the size of the hand.
if the goal was to have realistic shading then the first thing that sticks out is the hard edges to your shadows. There’s no variation in the values other than light and medium dark. If however you were using the edges of the shadows to better understand the 3D structure as a study then you did fine.
I’m not an expert but I hope this helps. Keep up the good momentum.
Paul Z
4yr
Just a common trend I see with your shading. I don't know if its just a stylistic choice but the human body is composed of mostly round organic forms. The core shadows your employ are often quite harsh and read as hard edges. Other than that I can't draw hands much better than you can so keep up the grind:)
Nicole Lee
4yr
Hello all, I have completed the hand course awhile ago but try to find more reference photos for practice. Below is my sketch on a reference photo found online. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could provide critiques and feedbacks! Thank you very much!
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4yr
Hi @Nicole Lee , nice drawing! I like the gesture and the drawing seems very accurate compared to the reference.
SHADING
The shading doesn't feel just right to me. This lighting situation is tricky, since the bounce light is very strong. The shadows are filled with a lighter tone, which makes it hard to discern what´s shadow and what´s not.
In the thumb it looks like you interpreted the bounce light as the main light source, making the thumb really light toward the right, and darker to the left. In the reference it's the opposite.
A similar thing happened in the ring finger. You indicated the dorsal side to be in light, when I think it's actually in shadow, considering the light direction. So the core shadow would be higher up, in the transition from radial to dorsal side. To figure stuff like this out, it helps to be clear about the light direction and light rays.
In the anatomy course Stan has a very cool style of rendering; mapping the shadows out with clear core shadow. I´ve found that in some poses, it´s really hard to identify the core shadows. When encountering poses with light even more tricky then this photo, I have to drop the core shadow thinking, and just focus on value shapes.
STRUCTURE
In your drawing the hands feels a little soft. I think it would be helpful to introduce more straights in the bony areas to get that solidity. Also, pay close attention to how the wrinkles between the phalanges wrap around a cylindrical form.
I hope this helps :)
