Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Course In Progress

Assignments 448

Downloads 8

Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

1.7K

Course In Progress

Assignments 448

Downloads 8

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!

Gloria Wickman

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Oof I think the level 2 assignments broke my brain but at least I got some practice in. I've definitely realized I need to put a lot more work into improving my line quality when drawing straights. Though it doesn't really show up on the page, my biggest growth from this project is that I'm starting to think much more about the form of things and how it relates to my point of view whereas before all of my drawing was heavily based on just following contour lines without thinking about the structure that lay underneath.

Juan Andres Gonzalez Trejo

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i really liked this project, so many combinations (where to put the box or in which direction is pointing) and the temptation to do details

Lib

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Phew. Now this is a difficult exercise.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Yeah, this one is super tough. You did a great job. Nice work!

Bohdan Fedorchenko

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I had fun doing this exercise. Will try more to simplify other objects into boxes

Laurent Van Acker

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22d

Not catching up to the course as quick as I’d wanted, but finally made some time for this assignment! I was surprised at how non-straightforward these were, but liked the assignment a lot. I’ll do level two later today. The first hand was still figuring out how to actually draw the boxes, I added my corrective study page for the thumb which I totally messed up 😅. Hand 2 and 3 went pretty well imo

Laurent Van Acker

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22d

Level 2 assignment, I rotated the first hand ±45 degrees (or at least, attempted to), this was hard! The resulting hand made me think of a break dancing 4 legged creature

Mason Stroud

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29d

This was hard. I watched the demo to help wrap my head around breaking down the segments and it still made my brain hurt. Gonna keep at it though!

Moses

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1mo

whoa surprisingly hard!

@mwalker

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1mo

Did a few iterations of these. I’m not sure if I got the 3 point perspective right but this felt mostly right.

@sosoph

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1mo

Hi :). Here are my projects (in order: hand 1 lvl 1, hand 1 lvl 2, hand 2 lvl 1, hand 3 lvl 1 and hand 3 lvl 2). Manipulating the boxes in 3D space proved to be a challenge (especially for level 2). It was fun. :)

Melanie Scearce

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1mo

Nicely done @sosoph!

@harrow

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1mo

Level 2 submission It took me a hot minute to wrap my head around the new perspective but once I had a few key points laid out it went fairly smooth. I need to work on drawing bigger.

@squash

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1mo

Following the demo

@squash

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1mo

This was hard. Before the demo

@harrow

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1mo

Level 1 submission I think I need to do it again at a much bigger scale

@harrow

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1mo

I'm not sure it's much of an improvement. Time to watch the demo

@osrour

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1mo

After demo

Melanie Scearce

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1mo

Perfect!

@ethel

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2mo

First pass before watching the demo or critiques

@deepanshu12

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2mo

Tried turning the original a little bit, too hard

Art Stark

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2mo

Proko Perspective Project Mannequin Hands Level 1

@landsloth

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2mo

This was actually as fun as it was challenging. I redid the 1st hand three times and by the third time I could feel that I had a slightly better grasp of it. I loved doing this as well because I can see big improvement from my first hand to the last, not just in perspective and boxes but also my line confidence and quality. Even though they aren't perfect and I have a ways to go, I'm really happy with this work.

Melanie Scearce

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2mo

Great to hear that you enjoyed the exercise! There is definitely clear improvement between iterations. Be mindful of the connection points of your boxes - on the first pose the fingers feel like they’re coming out of the top of the box for the palm. Overall these are clean and have great line quality. I think your drawing of the hand with the palm facing up is the most successful out if the bunch. Nicely done!