Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

inDrawing Basics

1.6K

Course In Progress

Assignments 428

Downloads 8

Project - Mannequin Hands

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Drawing Basics

1.6K

Course In Progress

Assignments 428

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!

@ethel

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First pass before watching the demo or critiques

@deepanshu12

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17h

Tried turning the original a little bit, too hard

Art Stark

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Proko Perspective Project Mannequin Hands Level 1

@landsloth

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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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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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@osrour

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Caden Young

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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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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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Before demo

Patrick Alexander Büchi

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10d

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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10d

These look wonderful!

Arthur Nesbitt

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11d

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

@yashimon

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13d

These are my level 1 assignment.

Kyle

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17d

This was a very interesting assignment. Sometimes using the Y method made deciding the orientation super easily but others I couldn’t wrap my head around which corner would be the Y. I also put gaps between each cube which I see now was different than the instructions. Overall though I’m happy that my shapes resemble hands somewhat 😂

Rynhardt van Vuuren

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19d

I completed the level 1 course without viewing the extra credit content. I started with hand 2. The Thick Finger... I messed proportion quite badly. I felt a tad overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I am trying to focus on i.e. getting my lines straight, getting convergence right, getting line weight correct. Anyway not quite muscle memory yet.... I did hand 3 and hand 1 subsequently where I find I improved on hand 1.

hobodios

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26d

I tried to do level 2 and it was quite hard. Drawing from imagination (kinda) is my weakness and In this case I didn't know how to place my idea on paper I guess that just takes practice. Any feedback would help a lot!

Stephen Clark

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26d

Compared to how you felt about it, this turned out pretty solid. There's some proportional shift compare to the reference but that's not the purpose of this exercise exactly. You did what feels like a pretty convincing reverse view version of the ref and that's no simple task. Great job!

@deadsm

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27d

This was extremely rough. I thought it wouldn't be that bad since I have my hand to look at. I was wrong; keeping proportions and gestures when doing boxes is rough. I realized with each hand that you really have to use gesture first if you don't have a reference. Grounding a drawing in perspective is hard from imagination if you are working with complicated forms.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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25d

These hands look animated. Lots of energy. Keep practicing boxes in perspective and it will get more intuitive.

hobodios

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27d

After I was done with the 3 images I wanted to do a little more and drew Master Hand! As always feedback is appreciated.

Tommy Pinedo

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27d

Ah yes the master hand. Always hated his other half the left hand or crazy hand haha. Good job! :D

@kirstybp

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29d

Wow this one was really hard! Could definitely do with some practice and feedback!

Aubrey Hannah

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30d

I think I could call this by far the most difficult exercise I've done in perspective. Hands are very complicated to draw even without considering perspective. Nevertheless, it was a very good challenge. Like with our previous exercise drawing portraits in two-point perspective, I had difficulty finding vanishing points in any of the reference photos. Constructive criticism is welcome of course.