| A lot of people struggle with how to draw a hand. | | | | sketches of hands. |
| But truth be told, if you can draw a person's body | | | | Looking at the hand from the outside you can see |
| then the hands shouldn't be any more difficult. If you | | | | many clues to its internal structure. The knuckles |
| aren't after a particularly detailed look, then the most | | | | have noticeable bulges and the thumb joints and |
| basic shapes can be used to portray the hands and | | | | finger joints are marked by wrinkled skin. By paying |
| feet. The right proportions and gestures can be | | | | attention to the back side you'll notice ligaments |
| captured using only a few well placed lines. The subtle | | | | tracing along the back of the hand, accentuating their |
| features and careful articulation make hands and feet | | | | mark, and following the path of the bones. Moving to |
| truly amazing structures though, so they're definitely | | | | the inside of the hand you'll notice that the palm has |
| not something you want to gloss over. Learning how | | | | three distinctive, fleshy sections which make up the |
| to draw a hand can help you capture a whole other | | | | main palm. The fingers are similar, in that they have |
| level of emotion and expression from your subject. | | | | three fleshy portions too. Depending on the motion, |
| An important fact of drawing is that some | | | | angle, and activity of each digit, these can change |
| characteristics will always take more planning and | | | | significantly. |
| time than others. One small part of your drawings | | | | Careful consideration and shading are the most |
| might end up taking up to half the total time, while | | | | important tools for capturing the shape and size of |
| the other sections just fall into place with almost no | | | | each segment. Other points to consider when learning |
| problems at all. Fingers and palms are often hard to | | | | how to draw a hand are that the thumb is the |
| capture accurately and so by learning and practicing | | | | exception, in that it curls opposite to the fingers, and |
| how to draw a hand properly you can save a lot of | | | | it only has two joints associated with it. Distinctive |
| time and trouble in the future. | | | | curves can also be seen on the finger nails which help |
| The bones are a good place to begin. There are | | | | establish the angle of the fingertips and also help to |
| three joints on each finger and they each span right | | | | portray the correct position of the digits. Like |
| back to the wrist. This is where you find the two | | | | everything else, hands have depth to them. Many |
| bones of the forearm end in knobbles which are | | | | rookies show the hands to be flatter than they are, |
| distinctive features on either side of the wrist. | | | | and this should be avoided. They have a very real |
| Looking at the joints you'll see they have a curved | | | | thickness and each finger is a three section tube. An |
| appearance which is comes from the fingers all | | | | easy way to help how to draw a hand properly is to |
| having different lengths. The depth of these arcs and | | | | use a series of boxes, which might help understand |
| their size will change depending on the subject, but | | | | the three dimensional proportions before rounding |
| by taking this simple point into consideration you'll see | | | | and making the sections more realistic. |
| a great improvement in the standard of your | | | | |