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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 was a lot harder than I thought it would be. After watching the demos a lot of my boxes are probably too far away from each other but I think I got the overall gist of the way the boxes should be.
Level 2. Pre level 2 demos.
Using different col-erase colors for different boxes helped.
After, it took some time to work out what was in front for the graphite lines. 😅
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14d
Color coding with this project is a good idea, all those boxes can certainly get confusing. Good work!
This is so much harder than i imagined 🥲
My main struggles for this assignment:
1. Visualising how the palm and fingers fit into the boxes (identifying which part is side/front, the thickness)
2. Aware that we are drawing boxes instead of the shape of the fingers, but sometimes i tried converging the y-axis and then I started wondering if I’m converging or drawing the shapes (the first hand I was focusing a lot on the shapes, which I only learned my mistake after watching the demo)
I noticed Stan didn't converge a lot on the y-axis in the demo?
I actually watched the demo after completing each hand, hoping that I can avoid making the same mistakes in my next hand drawing, but I feel like I’m still not getting a lot of things right, and it feels like my perspective accuracy judgement goes bad again. Gonna practice more and hope I’ll improve
this is a good as my pea brain could do. I found it really hard to work out where everything needed to converge too with so many angles/rotations involved.
Hey!
When a box gets rotated, i fine it super hard to visualize where the lines should then converge too. Is there a good guide for that?
This was definitely one of those projects that got easier each time, hand 1 broke my brain at times, by hand 3 i was feeling way more confident, still challenging but the perspective is starting to feel more intuitive :)
Kinda hard but very formative project. I have a rough time keeping all my boxes rectangular prisms, as I have a tendency to bend, twist and create trapezoïds out of my shapes. Will definitely do more of these with other hands and imagined point of views.
Definitely challenging, there's clearly some distortion going on, and maybe some lines aren't converging properly. I'll for sure go back to this project. Overall, pretty fun! Some feedback would be greatly appreciated
Well this was TOUGH!
I think the hardest part is deciding what orientation to place the wrist in. And then how to join certain segments. I wasn't quite sure.
Sketches weren't part of the exercise but did them as a bit of fun afterwards. They still suck, but hey I'm ok with that at least now. I do feel things are (slowly) getting easier.
1% less to actively think about and remember each time as some tiny muscle memory starts to develop
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The sketches are a great idea to take this assignment a step further and challenge yourself! Really nice work 👍
This really tests your ability to visualize boxes, I can see it being very helpful for body mannequinization
