Hey, welcome to draw tip Tuesday.
Today, I want to do another exercise like last week when we used the negative spaces
to draw a bicycle.
Today, I want to do the same; drawing a hand, and you can draw your own hand or make a photo
of your hand or find a photo online or draw something completely different.
I just want to go over it again.
Like drawing those negative spaces to find the proportions again and you can just use
a pen and maybe add some watercolors afterwards.
That's what I will be doing.
I just start at the corner where the index finger and the middle finger meet and I see
sort of a triangle shape of a negative shape.
So I will start drawing that and from there, I will find the outline of the hand.
And then I go back and I find another negative space.
I see where the thumb [00:01:00] overlaps the finger.
So there's a little bit of a curve and I just follow the line that I see of that finger
and follow the curves and the angles trying to really take notice of the proportions and
how wide and long the negative shapes between the fingers are.
And hen I have my basic shape already.
Now all I need to do is sort of fill in the gaps, the the blanks so to say and, I start
at the thumb because that's that curve over there and I can follow that and I have a reference
point which is the knuckle, so that knuckle is my reference point to know where to put
my line and where to stop the line that I see by looking at reference points and also
looking at the negative shapes within the hand, like the hand palm, it's a [00:02:00]
negative shape as well, that's below the thumb.
That way I can just go on and fill in the blanks.
I'll add some wrinkles that I see and I guess now I'm ready to add a little bit of color
because the color will give some extra depth because that will be like the shadows and
shading that I see in the in the skin.
I put a few layers on top of each other, especially the darker bits that's important, and that
way, I can easily - with just a few strokes, actually - I can easily create more depth
and shading.
All I need to do is now let it dry and my drawing is done!
So this is just a matter of practice.
You just need to practice it a lot drawing hands and you have your hands always with
you.
So there's no excuse not to every now and then just pick up your pen and draw your hand.
Make it challenging for yourself by you know, giving it a weird [00:03:00] perspective or
holding your hand in a very complicated way.
So you have to work with complicated shapes.
And by challenging yourself and practicing a lot you will get better very very quick.
So I hope you will give this a try and if you haven't already , sign up for this channel
because I don't want you to miss out on my Draw Tip Tuesdays.
I will see you next week.
Bye now!