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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!
First two attempts before watching the demo videos. Got a bit frustrated with myself on this one - I get the concept but struggled hugely for various reasons, including how to overlap for knuckles, dealing with foreshortening and just generally being level 0.5. Going to take the dog out for a walk and come back to this tomorrow.
Hey folks!
My level 1 assignment I tried my best to show enough of each side and be accurate with the pose. There are some wonky perspective which I left because it served the purposes and some boxes turned into trapezius.
❓: I am a little bit confused about the hand 1. I took a peak at the demo and have seen other doing something I dont get. The second image is the preview of the demo. While stan only draws the hand I am confused about the lower arm. I don't think its possible that we see the top plane of the underarm, but its in the preview. My wrist is locked and I am not able to push the lower arm in front of my palm or at least not that heavy. Besides that I dont see the arm going in front of the palm would Stan's drawing be antomical possible?
😳 After watching the demo I realized that I was confusing a tension line with a plane.
Here is how it worked out after the demo by including gesture to the drawing.
I've drawn many hands (mainly comic) but I found this very difficult. I'm sure I will grasp it more when I watch the demos. Sorry, I only had time to attempt one hand from a different angle.
Deciding how to connect the boxes sometimes threw me off.. It was a fun exercise, but the fact, that I knew, I was drawing a hand sometimes led to difficulties
Well, I look forward to trying these again after I watch the demo video. Hand #2 was the hardest for me to conceptualize for some reason. I ended up grabbing a few Lego bricks, holding them up, and looking at how the shapes stacked up to help.
It was a very challenging homework for me, and it was not easy to look at the round finger in a square, and it was not easy to know where to break it
I like your hand #3; the finger breaks look like they are all in the "correct" places, especially the thumb (I struggled with that one myself).
This was a challenging assignment. I loved to draw hands, something tangible, though getting it right took quite some time (and still isn't always that great). I am still getting my head around drawing 3D instead of following 2D outlines when replicating from a picture. So these excercises are really helping me to learn this. Tips are always welcome!
This and the pelvis bucket from the anatomy course are the hardest projects I’ve done yet lol. It’s always good to be challenged though
Here is my attempt at the level one project. I definitely struggled with accuracy. Where are some places I could improve? I can tell something is wrong but can’t figure out what / how to fix it. Thanks!
Level 2, I rotated 3 more to the right, I drew 1 if we were looking back on, and for 2 if he flipped his hand so the top plane was facing us
I did the drawing of the clutching hand in an alternate position by memory. However, I am certain I got the length and the orientation of the boxes wrong in the memory drawing. Fun exercise!
