Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

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Assignments 443

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Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

1.7K

Course In Progress

Assignments 443

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!

Laurent Van Acker

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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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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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11d

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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13d

whoa surprisingly hard!

@mwalker

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17d

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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18d

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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18d

Nicely done @sosoph!

@harrow

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19d

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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20d

Following the demo

@squash

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20d

This was hard. Before the demo

@harrow

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22d

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

@harrow

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21d

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

@osrour

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24d

After demo

Melanie Scearce

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23d

Perfect!

@ethel

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28d

First pass before watching the demo or critiques

@deepanshu12

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28d

Tried turning the original a little bit, too hard

Art Stark

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29d

Proko Perspective Project Mannequin Hands Level 1

@landsloth

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1mo

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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1mo

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!

@deepanshu12

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1mo

@osrour

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1mo

Caden Young

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1mo

I struggle with drawing stuff too vague a lot of the time, so assignments like this will hopefully help. Any critique welcome :)

Michael Longhurst

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1mo

Nice job on these. They look really expressive. You’re going to crush it when you get to the gestural perspective as you’re already manipulating the boxes to make the forms more organic and lifelike.

@osrour

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1mo

Before demo

Patrick Alexander Büchi

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1mo

Hello there! Posting my level 1 mannequin hands, a difficult assignment, I hope I didn't 3 point perspective the parts too much. Every critique is very much appreciated! Have a nice one. :^)

Rachel Dawn Owens

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1mo

These look wonderful!

Arthur Nesbitt

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1mo

Well this was a tough one. I feel like I would lose track of my lines when it came to the fingers, but I did my best to see it through 🥴 that thumb was tough for me to figure out too lol

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Stan Prokopenko

Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.