How to Draw Hand Bones – Anatomy for Artists

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How to Draw Hand Bones – Anatomy for Artists

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Assignment: Draw the Hands

Your assignment is to simplify the hand bones into their basic forms. Draw from life using your own hands or draw from the 3D models of the hand bones I provide you. Download the images for the assignment in the downloads tab and get to work! If you have the Premium Anatomy Course, you have 3D models of five dynamic hand bone poses that you can draw from any angle. You might even try drawing the same hand from multiple angles. And if you really want to challenge yourself, look at the model from one angle, but draw it from a different angle. After you’re done drawing, you can rotate the camera to match your drawing angle to check your accuracy. This exercise will help develop your ability to invent hands from imagination.

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Sirium
2mo
practice practice! It's all about perspective and cubes~ keep practicing, we can do it!
Noob_Artist
my attempt of simplified hands. Any criticism is welcome.
Jose Carvalho
Jatin Yadav
Can someone tell me of its ok?
Noob_Artist
I'm not a professional artist but it's very good for me!
JaiCharan Rangineni
This my assigment.
Kassjan (Kass) Smyczek
I am in a different country so I can‘t use my scanner. Here are my hand bone assignments. Love the course!
Dubčido
8mo
On this model, it seems to me like the thumb is in impossible angle. I tried to redo it with my limited skill looking on my hand and its possibilities.
Dubčido
8mo
..some more..
@robot0906
11mo
Here are some drawings from the lesson and 3 and 4 are those same poses but in different perspectives.
Alejandro
1yr
My Drawings for this assigment
Jake Miller
I know he said don't get stressed out, but I get stress as heck when I can't figure something out, because then suddenly it feels like I'm lost and don't know what to do or where to go, I hope I can get some enlightenment. I can actually draw hands quite okay without construction, but this just breaks me apart and it looks terrible. It took me like 2 hours, following gesture (which I feel like I can't do well in hands by themselves) I just see so many proportion issues, which is annoying because I measured and used rhythms, perhaps too much, which I really DIDN'T want to do. I suppose there's nothing for it but to keep doing these, should probably just copy Proko's ones first instead of going out of the gate on my own. After I was done, I overlayed mine onto the original, the fingers were quite close, but originally the palm was too small, I just realigned it and it looked much better, but still a lot of issues, I'm sure.
Melanie Scearce
I know it's easier said than done, but definitely try not to get stressed out about the process! It will take lots of practice. I do think that you will learn more by figuring it out yourself than copying others drawings, but that is also a good exercise especially when you're feeling stuck. Good job taking a look at your drawing overlayed on the reference image. I recommend doing that each time you complete a study and asking yourself what you did right and what fell a bit short.
Ezra
1yr
i made the finger bones too thick😅
Rachel Dawn Owens
That’s ok! Thicker fingers make them look less creepy. I like all your notes on the side. Those will get you far with your education. These drawings are so good 👍
Shannon Stone
Samuel Sanjaya
My hand bone assignment. Did i got the perspective correct ? Any feedbacks or critiques will be greatly appreciated !
@palyo
2yr
Hi everyone! These are my drawings for the hand bones' assignment which really challenged my perspective in many occasions but overall it was very fun. Probably the worst of these five is the fifth one so these days i'll send another version of it down in the replies. Anyway, i'd really appreciate any kind of critique/advice.
@palyo
2yr
I found some time to actually do it, here it is.
Nicolas Ladouceur
Rougher than I wanted, had quite a bit of struggle with proportions.
Love Byström
Remember, the metacarpals and carpals are about as long as the phalanges. Here the palm is just a bit too short. The shape of the bones look really good however! Clear planes and direction
Ang Jin Kuan
haiii here's my handbones assignment. I wasnt sure how much i should be referencing so i mostly heavily referenced until the fifth one, i just used what i've learned + intuition(less reliant on ref), so which way would be better? Any other critique/feedback is welcomed too!
Madelyn Kuipers
Definitely a tricky one with all the intricate shapes. Feedback and critiques welcome and appreciated!
Stan Prokopenko
you did great!
Gian Amir Calibuso
I had fun in this hand bones assignment, since before I was not really confident in my hand drawings and just used to leave them or not draw them at all since it would look goofy or just too unprofessional and I hate that (I just don't want for everybody else to see my noodle hands kek). But after this assignment, I think I learned the general idea of how the hand works and feel a bit more confident in drawing them, though I might still not draw them in my future assignments... but now I know that it's doable for me to draw them, thanks everyone! 
Noob_Artist
unprofessional!?? That's amazing!!!!
Camellito
2yr
Hello!!! Finally we got to the hands. Here are my assingments
Jack
2yr
These are my hands so far
Jack
2yr
These are my other hands
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