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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!
This really tests your ability to visualize boxes, I can see it being very helpful for body mannequinization
Had lots of fun on this one. It felt like a puzzle. Did any one else watch Mark Kistler's "The Imagination Station" on pbs back in the 90's? He was teaching 1,2, or 3 point perspective to kids (myself included) nearly every episode. It was a great show!
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2d
Nice work on these. You manage to keep a feeling of life in them even though they are manniquinized.
Also: I remember the imagination station! Good times.
A very fun exercise indeed. Please leave your feedback! I had a struggle with certain angles and keeping track of convergence
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2d
Nice work. One thing I’d look out for is that you seem to be making the hands / palm area very wide. Nothing wrong with that as a design choice, but something to keep aware of. But again, well done!
Had a good time with this one, despite the obvious struggles I have with proportion. I'll definitely keep working on that. The other thing that's super hard for me is placing one box in front of the other. I keep getting confused by the lines underneath. For some of these, I drew the lines behind, then erased them to draw the new box, then drew them back in lightly. Foreshortening was also a challenge. I can conceptualize a box in space, but placing another box in a specific relationship to it... Now that's the goal.
All feedback welcome
Hey Jonah! I want to say that im there with you on proportions and placing boxes in relation to each other. That's very hard. When I was drawing them, I think its the orientation of the angles that tripped me up as well.
My feedback for you is to avoid any trapezoidal shapes you use for the fingers and focus on a more constructive rudimentary box, while keeping track of line quality. Keep going! I can see that you're thinking about the organic shape vs perspective, but now simplifying what you see is going to bring you a long way
Before looking at demo. Visualising boxes is still bit glitchy, but felt progress during exercise.
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Nice work! Visualizing cubes take a while, but these are looking pretty good! Even if the perspective is slighly off, working on this kind of sketching will really start to give you a handle on playing with the 3d space of the page. In the early, light, sketching stage consider drawing through your boxes to visualize the hidden sides before you darken the lines you want to keep. Drawing through your boxes will give you a better understanding of the proportions and foreshortening going on with each box, and help keep things from getting off track. Keep at it!
Level 2 of hand 2 - that much overlap of boxes definitely takes some careful consideration to prevent the boxes becoming too messy
Here my level 1 assignments. Now time to correct myself with the demo and critiques videos.
I cleaned them and tried to apply what i learned about lines weight in the Lens Nicholas Mech & Robot class. Still to work it a lot in order to achieve what’s in my head and feel more comfortable with digital ink.
Feel free to comment and critique !
Have fun and a good day !
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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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!
I think maybe for this project, try just visualizing the boxes that you drew, but rotated 180 or mirrored. Try using the same rhythms you found in the picture to help get the end points of knuckles/fingers for the imagined pose. One specific reason it feels so off/crowded is you pulled/rotated the pinky (and also to a lesser extent the thumb) too far forward. That said, I think you're doing a great job with the assignment, a lot of boxes that read well in 3-pt perspective!
Challenging and interesting. A bit frustrating too, haha. Tried the first one a few times.
