Drawing Together Episode 147: Hand
this episode is Part of the Drawing Together live video series – learn more here
Let’s draw a hand! Follow along using this reference image: Reference Image
Today, I’m working with:
- Gray Toned Drawing Paper
- Graphite Pencils (a variety of hard and soft)
- White Charcoal Pencil
- Kneaded and Rubber Erasers
- Shading Stumps
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It was a tough one ! As it can be seen, got lost in the pan…? Thanks Scott, for walking us through the finer details of drawing every Wednesday. My first episode but definitely not the last.
Cheers !!
This is wonderful! Thank you for joining us and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
It was hard to to get the basic form of the hand. My initial drawing was off, so I measured the main locations (with a pencil) from the reference. The Strathmore toned grey paper allowed a lot of erasing. Once I had the basic form I enjoyed adding the details and shading the surface features.
This is great!
This one was a toughy but well worth the effort. Thanks Scott!
Nicely done, Giselle!
Here’s my hand drawing in charcoal instead of graphite. It was very challenging, and I didn’t get the curve of the hand formed by the knuckles , as my brain always wants to straighten out angles. It’s quite frustrating! Great lesson subject .
Great work with this!
And one more of my hands. Urszula
Hello Scott, I was not able to draw the hand you selected. However, for now, I am going to share my hand drawings from direct observation in the drawing class I took at the local college. The objective was to draw hands using continuous line technique, drawing as much lines as possible. Totally different technique, that the one you used, but interesting as well. As a bonus there are some heads, drawn from observation as well using continues line technique. I will draw your hand sometime in the future. Urszula
Those are great exercises. Thanks for sharing these!
thinking shapes helps, hands are difficult
Thanks for a great (but really hard!) lesson. ?
Nicely done!