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Drawing boxes can get repetitive, so let's try to make this one engaging and practical. In this project you'll be drawing mannequin hands. Hands are an excellent subject for practicing drawing boxes because fingers can bend in various directions, allowing for up to 16 different boxes in a single drawing.
Level 1
- Download Photos: Download the 3 photos in the downloads tab.
- Gesture: Before drawing the boxes, identify the big shapes and the gesture of the hand. Lightly sketch in the simple shapes to ensure the boxes are in the correct location and proportion. Avoid drawing any anatomy, skin details or nails.
- Construct Boxes: Constructing boxes in three-point perspective to represent the segments of the hand and fingers.
The aim is to practice drawing boxes in perspective using hands as a subject. Don't get distracted by trying to draw a perfect hand with anatomical detail.
Level 2
- After drawing each hand from the photo, draw the same pose from a different angle. This will require you to imagine the pose and draw from imagination.
- Don't Strive for Perfection. It's okay if the pose isn't exactly the same from the new angle. The objective is to practice drawing boxes in various configurations.
Extra Credit: Drawing hands from imagination is pretty hard. If you want to do some extra homework, you can review these free hand lessons from my Anatomy course:
How to Draw Hand Bones – Anatomy for Artists
How to Draw Hands – Muscle Anatomy of the Hand
How to Draw HANDS – Details for Realistic Hands!
How to Draw Hands from IMAGINATION – Step-by-Step
Deadline: Submit by 02/22/2024 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Attaching my humble attempt at the mannequin hands (Pre Demo). Caution when Stan say "Hope this will not be too difficult for you" you better know this is going to be hard as hell. :)
Would really appreciate some critique here.
Hello, here is my exercise. I am eager to see the demo — I want to understand the method to rotate the forms
I really struggled to see the hands as boxes so I'm going to have to try again after the demo. I can already see what I did wrong.
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4d
Don't stress too much about making these boxes anatomically accurate- the main point of this assignment is to draw boxes in perspective using the hand as reference to match the angles. It's okay if your boxes overlap/don't connect in ways that would make sense anatomically. If it makes more sense to you, you could try using spheres to represent the joints and have the boxes connect at the joints.
Attempted Level 1 and 2 here. Had fun with this project, albeit found myself problem solving angles quite a bit (more specifically where each line should converge to). The differing angles of the fingers led to lots of creative ideas of how to play with the perspective. I tried exaggerating the foreground vs background and experimenting.
It was a fun but tricky exercise, especially in the third pose. I’m not sure if I did it right, so I’d really appreciate any feedback – please feel free to comment. Thanks to everyone.
I don't have much time to draw in the day, but here's my work from today, before watching the demo:
Not sure what it is, but something feels off
This was excruciatingly hard. I struggled especially with rearranging the first hand pose. In the end I just gave up because I couldn't figure out what fingers should be visible from the back side no matter how many different examples I tried on another paper. I was totally defeated and left it be. If someone can give some advice and corrections, and motivate an explanation, I would be very happy!
Challenging and interesting. A bit frustrating too, haha. Tried the first one a few times.
This one turnout harder than I thought. I 'm not sure why but, I did the first one in the morning and in the evening I did the rest and it suddenly became harder. Maybe it was because of what I ate?
I was really struggling against the urge to make the lines curve to follow the contour of the hands and the convergence of the boxes, and as you can see also where to place the boxes.
Any advice would be welcome. Also, I post it before but I want to ask your opinion about the last sketch. You think it is still salvageable or should I move on and do another one after more practice and studies?
Forced myself to do it before watching the demo. Which felt uncomfortable but happy i did it. The result is what it is, the practice is more important i guess lol. Imma watch the demo and redo it now.
I am indeed level 1 and chose to just keep it simple as usual. Do what works for me until I learn better. Please feel free to criticize, but keep it positive. Thanks.
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Nice work Ronald! Hands are one of the hardest things to draw, so these exercises will pay off dividends in the future. One trick that is really useful, especially when we get foreshortened fingers like this, is to make sure we are drawing through the form, and thinking about the inside dimensions. I've done a quick sketch, and in orange put the lines I'm talking about. These really help our mind "feel" the 3d nature of what we are drawing. Good work, and keep it up!
That was really difficult, both L1 and L2! I had a hard time determining the rotation of each box, I’ve always been drawing hands/fingers with cylinders and soft blobs so actually thinking of them as planar shapes was new and difficult. Because of this oftentimes the fingers look disjointed, as if they weren’t connected to each other.
Foreshortening was the biggest issue I had, it was really difficult to draw a box with almost none of its side planes showing; I kept defaulting to the ‘generic 3/4 view box’ and getting the rotation of the fingers wrong.
Thinking in 3d still feels nigh impossible (especially when I’m inventing/rotating things), but exercises like these certainly help. I’ll watch the demos and try to follow along to understand it better.
My thoughts on this exercise and my personal opinion:
Level 2 was quite a challenge. The lines are rough because I was constantly correcting the orientation of the boxes. Some boxes have a certain perspective to give the impression of distance. (I couldn't help it...) In the end, I think this exercise is more about how you position the boxes than drawing them neatly and correctly. I'll have to draw quite a few more boxes and hands to achieve a loose and clean drawing.
