Drawing and Illustrating Hands

1. Introduction: One of the biggest struggle of any artist is drawing cats. I think we can agree on that. It is hard and intimidating. When I was a beginner artists, I tend to avoid drawing them in every piece of artwork, but at a point, I just have to draw them. Decided to look at it differently. It does just like any other object. So I have to observe it. Well, yes, practice drawing it up. After several 100 thousand sketches later. I got some skills that I would love to share with you in this class. Hi, my name is Alexandra, aka the art mother. I'm an artist, a professional art teacher, mother and illustrator with a superpower of making complicated our topics easy for beginners. In this class, I'm going to teach you how to draw and illustrate hands in the easiest way. The tension, this is not an anatomy class and it will definitely not be boring. We will take advantage of the freedom of the illustration, and by following the rules, we will create hats, fit or illustration style, and we will have so much fun with it. We will start with learning the construction of the hand and assemble way of drawing them. Then we will practice drawing hands in different poses like hand from the side, a fist, and we post fingers. After several sketches, we will be ready to customize the drawings to our styles, then learn about skin tones. Last but not least, we will create an illustration of a hand. And as I love tattoos, I will show you how to add them to add even more style and uniqueness to your artwork. I'm going to use Procreate for all of this, but you are free to use software or media that you would love to work with. The glass is a perfect fit for beginners. And to anyone who feels intimidated when it comes to drawing cats. What's your need for this class is a working knowledge of the media that you are going to work when the little sparkle to be ready to demystify the topic of drawing hands. The class comes with some cool resources. For example, worksheets, a completely new brush set designed by me and the color palette. After finishing this class, you will be more confident when you are adding hands to your artworks. And what's more, you will have a cool illustration that you can print as a wall art to remind you your new skill. So are you ready to draw hands? If yes. See you inside the class? 2. About The Class: Welcome to the class. I'm super happy to have you here in this video, I'm going to talk to you about the class resources, the class structure, and the class project. So let's just start with the class resources we discussed. You will get worksheets, a color palette, and a completely new brush set that I have designed for this class. After you have downloaded all their resources, I'll just check out the structure of the class. So we're going to learn about the construction of the hand. Then we're going to do drawing exercises, drawing a simple hand, drawing hands imposes, then learn about sterilization, how to create a color palette. And then we're going to create a final artwork in this class, we are going to create an illustration of a hand. It can be any pose and made from any reference photo of your own hand. You can use pictures that I am having Endo videos and in the worksheets as well. All the worksheets are designed to weigh that. I have. For example, this one, I have prepared it in other ones, but you can turn off the example and we are going to work together in real time with any color palette. You will have this skin tones that you can see here. And all the colors that we are going to use during the exercises, you are free to change them or create different ones, obviously with the skin tones as well. I will show you how to choose colors for the skin. Then about the brushes. There are five brushes. There was a sketching pencil that you can use for this catching part. There's a drop shadow that we will use in the illustration part. And there's a shadow, a shaper, and a detailed brush for freckles to create some cool details on the skin that is absolutely optional to use. Alright, I think I covered everything that you need for to start. See you in the next video, where we're going to learn about the construction of the hand. 3. The Construction of The Hand : In this video, we are going to learn about the construction of the hand. So let's see. To demonstrate you the construction of the hand, I'm going to use a picture of my own hand. As I'm not really going to talk about some general rules because I love to rely on my own observations. And that really helps me a lot with trusting my own experience of reality. This trust adds so much to my personal illustration style. So I really recommend you to start observing your environment as an everyday practice. So to start with it, you can take a photo of your own hand and use that as a reference in the upcoming exercises or a later after the class. And you are also free to use my own drawings of my hands and also you can check on your own hand image. If my observations fit your hands, you might find something works differently on your hand. Alright? Now, before I start to explain the construction of the hand, I will love you to create an intuitive sketch off a hand. Even mind that you can see now here and really do it so that you can compare your intuitive drawing with your observational drawing. And at the end of this exercise, we will compare them. And we will see if it really helps. When you go here to the layers, you will see an intuitive sketch layer and you can just turn it on. Then you can select black and from the brush set, choose the sketching pencil and try it out. And now quickly just sketch the hand. I will do it without too much observation, okay? Okay, not bad, but not perfect as well. If I knew already with this intuitives catch, make sure to turn off this layer so that it doesn't distract us. Back to the hand. Drawing the hand is challenging because it is very complex. So there are 27 bones in the hand and it can move in, in finite ways. It can appear in any angle. And most importantly, it communicates. So it is really important from a storytelling side of illustration. So let's just start with the parts of the hand that we can differentiate just super quickly. I'm just going to create a new layer and choose this pink to just select the areas or parts that we can differentiate. So let's start at first. We have the palm, right? I don't know how he's called from the other side, but basically this is the base of the hand. Then we have the fingers and we have joints. Five in the poll here. Then the other extend the fingers. We can do wide stem by them. Then we have fleshy parts that we can see when they move. Can you see this part and this part and this part? I will just select them like this. So these are the fleshy parts. Then we have nails, right? And wrinkles that are very important at this part's, right? And we have these lines of the poem we can tell the future from right? Okay, So these are the parts that we can differentiate into hand and a which makes anything look like a hand when it's added to where we have five. When kids draw, they just draw. Oops. They just draw like this. And it can be a hand, right? Then later on the kid starts to do this, maybe even five fingers, but it's still hand and then it just improves by time and practice. All these, we can build up a hand, alright, so we need to simplify this into something that we can use as a construction to build up a hand in our drawing, right? And when observing anything, any objects, the best is to start with finding the basic geometric shapes and complex forms of the object. The most basic geometric shapes, our circle, triangle, square, rectangle, trapeze. So let's see which ones we can find. In my hand. I will turn off this layer and create a new one. I already have the construction of the hand here, but I will create it from scratch so that you see how it builds up. I will choose the blue from here and keep this catching puzzle. So we have a trapeze. As you can see. We can start from here, the wrist, and now to the finger, I can draw another line that can be straight like this. And let's just create a trapeze that will give the base for hands. Okay? So we have the trapeze, and now I can see a triangle here like this. What about this part? Now we have a circle, but we can have a half circle as well. So this is something like this. Then we have the joins are circles that we can place into this combination of basic geometric shapes. I will place these circles as joins here. I will draw lines for the fingers. And we can divide them to three even parts for the joints. And wallah, there's a general rule that's the middle finger is exactly as big as the poll. It might be true for some and not true for the others. Like it is really, I think person's specific. Someone with very short fingers might not how this rule-like, true. It also depends on age and things like that. So I really love to trust my observations. Now what I can observe at least hand as well, that there is this nice curve defining the hate of the fingers. Also, it is very common that the middle finger is the highest, then comes to index finger, finger than the ring finger and the pinky. And we have the thumb a little bit as an outsider from this family. Alright, so this applies to this one as well. I will just turn off this drawing and turn on the original construction of the hand. Now, you can draw this and I recommend you to go find a picture of your hand or create a picture of your hand and just find a trapeze, the triangle to half circle the joints in it. This finger lines and seed curve that you have, for example, on your hands. Now that we have these construction drawing, see you in the next video where we are going to use it to draw a hand. So see you in the next video. 4. Drawing a Simple Hand: I know this was a lot, but don't vary. After finishing this class. It will come automatically when you are drawing hands. So let's get back to drawing. As you can see with this construction drawing, we can create a drawing of a hand very easily. So in this video we are going to draw a simple hand. Using this construction drawing. I will go to layers and turn off the example, but only this cache. So let's keep the construction drawing here. I will just create a new layer above everything. Choose black and still keep the sketching pencil. So now when I'm drawing a hand, placing the wrist first is helping a lot. So these are just two lines. And as I have deconstruction drawing here, I know where they go. When drawing this hand right now, keep your eye on the reference image. So it will help you a lot to find the perfect angles. Alright, now I'm going to continue with this line. It is pretty easy. I have the construction drawing here so I can follow it. It doesn't matter if you don't follow it 100%. It is practice. So with the fingers it will be a little bit more tricky because as you can see, it has kind of a curve. So I will just keep observing and tried to draw the finger. Now you might not see in the reference image, but you can turn off in the worksheet, this construction drawing to see that here. As the pinky ends, there is this line. Can you see that? This is how the other finger starts and it goes on at this finger as well and this finger as well. And they unlike bit more simply here, that also here is a line as well. So observing will help you with this. I will turn this construction drawing back. So when I'm drawing, I will start with this line, okay? So I'm not doing fingers like this. Okay? But there is this line of starting of the other finger. So I will go again following this construction drawings around going up to this curve and then going down. I am now not really taking a concentration. This is where we deform, it is on my fingers. But the point is two. To look for these lines and really pay attention. Go up to the curve. Down. Again. We have this finger here. And it goes down here, helps. Down here to the end of this trapeze. Okay. This is where the fingers, and then again this line comes down like two disjoint. And this finger starts here. Whoops, this is a bit unnatural, so I'm taking a look at it like this. And connecting these two lines and wallah, I have the finger, but we will need also the parts right, where we were talking about the nails and the wrinkles. So let's just add them. I will add the nails. I think it does. And I will add two at each joint here, two lines like this. And to hear free here, to free up to react. This is just my way of, of a quick drawing of hints, but we'll delete this. Alright, use this line and add something to the wrist. I will add a tattoo because I have one here, as you can see. It will make this drawing look even better. Flowers, just as my inspiration. And I will turn off the construction of the hand. And this is my hand. Can you see that? And when I go back to the intuitive drawing, you want to just turn it on and turn off the construction. Can you see how different I will just place it to that one so that we can compare. Just placed in here. Well, this is an improvement. Can you see that? So yes, using construction, drawing and observation always helps us to draw hands. Oh, how easy it would be if we would only need to draw hands in this position, right? But in most cases, naturally looking and are pushed into pulses. What we need to do in this case, this is to observe again and use the construction that we have just learned. In the next three exercises, we are going to draw hands in different poses so that you can try it out. 5. Drawing a Hand From The Side: Alright, so let's click to the first exercise where we're going to draw a hand from the side. As you can see, we have the same geometrical shape combinations. So we have the trapeze, we have the triangle, we have circles for the joints and these lines for the fingers. In this part we're going to add shadows as well. So let's just go and do it. Go to the layers and turn off the example. In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to find these basic geometric shapes to create this construction drawing. So I will create a new layer. Choose this blue, and you can keep the sketching pencil. So I always start it all with the wrist. So I will just draw, find the angle where it can be the most like straight. And then here I can see this trapeze and here I can continue with this sharpies. Yeah, like I am not over complicating this with free dimensional drawing of forms because this lies really within observations. It is very useful to practice different kinds of poses. And then your muscles and hands will just remember drawing them. So I will, I can see this triangle here as well. What works for me when I hand this in an angle and I'm dividing it to a front and a back. Now I can see this index finger, finger is in the front, so I will just simply focusing data. Here is disjoint and I'm dividing this again. Here is this joint as well. Then here is the adjoint of this middle finger and goals like this. This is the front. And then at the back, I cannot even see this muscle. I will just draw it in a plus. Here is the back. Yeah, unfortunate thumb is here, right? This is a construction drawing for me here that I can just duplicate and move over my blank page. Now I will create a new layer, choose black, the sketching pencil, and start drawing. Again. I will start with the wrist. So I can start drawing it like here. And here. Then I will continue by this line and start with the front. Start with drawing the front so the index finger. And it goes until the top of this trapeze. And a little bit beyond as the thumb starts where this triangle stars starts. So again, don't forget these lines here and connect. Now you have the front. What I'm going to do now is to create a new layer below and adds the other fingers. So that is the background. Doing this when illustrating is very useful because then you will be, it will be easier to add shadows to the fingers that are in the back when painting. So I always keep track of what's in the front, what's in the back, and where I will add shadows and within the illustration process, it will be easier. So I will now just add this finger. This finger starts here and it just appears like this. And we can see the pinky here. Well, now let's add the parts that makes or lines fingers. Okay, So let's add D. The nails. The most perfect ones but k. And you can add the wrinkles. Can see them here. You can see them here. And I will add my little tattoos like this. And I will turn off these, the construction drawing. And voila, I have this hand, but I can see that this front hasn't got the best shapes, so I will make it a bit more smooth like this. Okay? I will add now shadows. So again, create a new layer below the sketch. I have to grace at the palate for shadows. I would love to add deeper shadows to do the things that are the background. And we also have shadows at the, at the front. Okay, so let's make these darker gray sketching pencil that you can make it a bit bigger to the finger that you cannot even see here and to the pinkie and to this part here like this. So I'll just fill it and let's choose a lighter gray. And as you can see, all these fingers have some shadows here. I will add shadows just with lines. Also this is in shadow. I will make it a bit bigger. And this part of the hand is full in shadow and it already gave me dimension. Can you see that? I just added a little bit of gray where there is shadow. So these are hand studies. This will help you to know where, what shapes you will have, where to add shadows, and which elements will make it look like a hand. Okay, I think you're already a pro, but let us exercise a little bit more. See you in the next video where we're going to draw a face. 6. Drawing a Fist: The point of this exercise is to learn to draw close fingers. So let's just get into it. So in this video we're going to draw a fist. In the previous one, we had the hand from the side and now again from the front, but with the fingers that are closed. On the example, you can see that again, found the base geometric shape combinations. So we have the trapeze to triangle, the circles. And actually we will not have the long lines now, but the joints. And that will help us to draw this hand. I will again turn up the example. I'll let just find it in this image. So I will choose again the blue. I have the sketching pencil. Again. Where do we start? We start at the wrist, so I will hopes that is big. So I will just draw a line here. Yeah, This side. Okay. I have the trapeze. Now, I will add this triangle. I have this joint. I will add these joins up here and it will help me a lot when drawing these fingers. And I will draw this, this lines for these joints here we can add these joints, well, we have the fleshy part here now. We will add that with shadows and we have the wrinkles. Yeah. So I will just duplicate this construction and just place it here. Now I will choose the black and the sketching pencil and make sure to make a new layer. So again, we will start with the race. I will just draw the wrist here. And let's again, what is in the front, this thumb, right? So let's draw that at first. We are continuing with following the, um, triangle here. Here we have this joint. There, we have this curve. And then we are drawing the thumb. And the thumb goes down this triangle and then starts a flashy parts here that will help us to define all the other fingers. Then we can continue with drawing this joint up here and the one next to it. And as you can see here that these finger continues. So I will just try to add it here and there is a fingernail there. Then this finger continuous at a and ends at this joint. And here is another one. Again, ending at the joint, like this. Starting at one joint, ending at the other end. I have a little nail here that can look odd, so maybe I will not draw it here. Then we have some flashy burns here and we can connects to the wrist. And I can add the wrinkles and every fingernail that we can see. So we can see free fingernails. This looks a little bit odd, so I will just tried to make it better. Alright. So we have lots of wrinkles that help us to express this tension that we have in the hand when showing a fist. So I will add this top wrinkles may be here as well. Right here. Yeah, so we need at rest as well. I will turn off this construction drawing and we have drawn a fixed. Again, let's do something with the shadows. I will create a new layer below this construction drawing like this. And choose this darker gray. Maybe sketching pencil bit bigger and add shadows to this very dark parts below the fingers. Okay, this is going to be very dark. Maybe I will include this finger there and also a light gray. We will have a shadow here. I will make this bigger and we have shadow below this finger. And this part, then add this fleshy part. Right? Maybe even here. And down here. Yeah. And I forgot my little tattoo, so I will just add them with my sketching pencil to make it make it look even nicer. And finished. I have drawn a fist and I am sure that it worked for you as well. In the next video, let's combine the two, the closed fingers and the open fingers and connected with the communication function of heads. 7. Drawing Posed Fingers: You can communicate so much with our hands. 8. Quick Sketches: Okay, so to integrate what we have just learned, I decided to put a very quick exercise here. Alright, so we are going to create quick sketches with on the reference photo, you will need to draw all four poses that we have already created in very, very quick sketches. So let's get into it. Alright, so in this video, you can guess we're going to create quick sketches. And let me just explain you why the exercises that we have done already were wearing much based on observations. And I want you now to integrate a little bit what we have learned in these exercises. So do this definitely now so that the information doesn't get lost and that your muscle memory, remember set. So what I want from you now is to grab the blue and it's catching puzzle. I'll let just quickly sketch all the four pauses that we have created a video our hands. So the first one was the simple hands. So let's just draw a trapeze triangle than the half circle, where there are these four circles than the one circle. Then here is 12345. Fingers, yes, there was this curve. And then just create a new layer and with black very quickly. Starting from the wrist, then I will just add D. I'm 1234. Really nice. I have this fingernails very quickly. All right. Let's create another one with the blue. So then there was the hand from the side. There we had a trapeze somehow like this. And there was a triangle like this, and there was this finger. And then there was, I don't remember. Well, but let's just place this index finger here than there was another finger here, another one, another one. I will choose black at the wrist and quickly. Okay. And one finger down. And another one here. Yeah. That was there is another finger here and another one, and another one. This is another pose actually. Looks great. Like this. Fun. Alright, let's do the fist. So there was again, as you can see, we always start with the trapeze. There was a trapeze, there was this triangle. And I'm looking at my finger. So it is like this. Then 1234 joints, 1234 fingers. Let's do it like this. Okay? Then I will draw the rest again, follow this line. For the thumb, we had the fleshy part. One join 234 and close it. 1234. Yeah, wrinkles, nails. Pretty amazing. And then again, let's do the peace sign. Again. We had these triangle. Again, we had the thumb. Then we had this half circle. Or you have these four? We have four. There are two joints. Again. Wrist, thumb. Like this. Yeah. Cool. Alright. So not perfect, but so much better than before these observational drawings. And if these are like my intuitive sketches, okay, but now I use the construction drawing. I know that the trapeze defines the base of the hand than this triangle is very important because the thumb is a very important finger. As you can see, it appears almost in every pose. And this is really weird. This is really weird, but these last two are a really great, alright. So I hope that now you are convinced that you are ready to move on to the next level. So see you in the next video where we're going to talk about civilization. 9. Stylization: Shape language plays a huge role in illustration and also the bay that we are drawing lines can communicate so much. For example, with curvy lines, we can make something cute and with edges we can add a masculine factor to our artwork. In this video, let's try it out in our drawings. I love the freedom in illustrations so much. The most important thing is to communicate ideas as well, not particularly keeping everything real. There are so many ways you can stylize the drawing, right? So when you are observing anything, you are making note of every detail, right? That you can see in that image that we've done at the beginning. So we were kinda copying the real image. But in illustration generally we are stylizing things, so we don't need to be too realistic in our drawings with every little detail and Everly the curve, we are drawing. The most important thing and the point is to make our illustration readable. So there are several ways we can stylize or drawings. Let's just take a look in this worksheet I have done. There are several illustration styles as well. So here is the original one, as you can see in this second one. Let me just show you an artwork that I've done for one ink topper in previous years. So as you can see, this hand is very feminine, it very delicate and acute. And as you can see, if you take a look on the lines that are more or less straight lines, There's one little edgy curve here at the end of the fingers, but it has lines are more or less a really straight and thin. And it makes this hand really cute. And we are going to try it out. We're going to replicate this exact same hand in several ways. So I'm going to try it out on this one. And this is simplifying lines. Alright, so we are simplifying lines here. We are not adding these curves and little shapes in it. We're really just focusing on the lines themselves. And then we are, we can simplify the whole shapes. So if you take a look on this artwork that I have created, this fingers are pretty much like sausages. But still it is a readable, it is a hand and it is a cute, right? So when you are drawing curves, it communicates really the cuteness of the drawing. So these nails are just simply noted. The rules kept that there are five fingers and you don't even need to do that. So if you take a look on this drawing, this is really this sausage fingers and I loved this one out. It just over complicated. We can say that, okay, we cannot see this middle finger because it is behind this one. So it doesn't matter. Alright, so if you have an image like this and you don't have all the fingers in a pose. Obviously, when it can be like missing. It's totally okay to do that. Alright, so let just turn off the example group. And we have the construction of the hand here duplicated from this hand. So let's just click on that and select this shape. Or if you are not working in a worksheet just on your own, you can just create one with this construction of the hand in any pose that is totally on, you. Just make sure that in this example you are simplifying line. So I will grab black and the sketching pencil. Make sure to draw on a new layer above the construction of the hand layer. So don't draw it inside it. And let's just start. Alright, so what do we need? We need to stylize lines so we don't need to draw every little curve and shape. But just to make the hand like readable, you can use the quick shape function, which is when you hold down the line, it makes it feel, make it straight. If you want to draw a curve, it will make it again straight. This will help you a lot. So what I'm going to do is to start at the breast, as always, here, this tubing and make it smaller bit. You can make the line straight or you can add a little bit of a curve into it. Up on you. I will make a little bit of a curve here. To make it a bit more natural. You don't want to make the places where these lines meet very edgy. It will be unnatural. So keep, you can keep these curves. I will continue with a straight line here. I will make a little curve here. Straight line. Again, I'm drawing the front. That's first as we did at the first time. Straight line. And when I want to add a curve, it helps me. It's like, Okay, straight line, straight line. I will maybe add a little bit of a curve here. Draw the thumb. This little bit of a curve here to connect like this. Then I will add this finger again, straight lines, straight line. And I will make a curve here. For this finger, I can add a little bit of a curve here again and just connect it here with a straight line. Amazing. And it was the pinky. Let me go down here with it. Finger. Like this. I will note the nails like this. And I will add my little tattoo. And it has finished. So now I will turn off this construction. And also from here. So if you go to the worksheet, there is this construction that you can turn off. Can you see that it is so much more stylized, more feminine? You can play a lot with these straight lines and curves and things like that. So as you can see, it can be really beautiful. And this line, artworks are so great. I love them so much. You can do that. Alright, let's move on to the next one. So I will just do it on this construction. And I will duplicate this one. So slide the layer and duplicate it. And select. Okay, turn them on and select, and you can move it into this last worksheet. Now we're going to simplify shapes. The fingers are in 2D detail. There are chubby, don't even move naturally, but it still fits the image pretty well. Because they are kept the most basic rules, right? And it communicates what I intended to say. Okay, so if you take a look at this artwork, you can see that I really didn't keep too many rules when I draw on this hand. Fingers are into detail. They're chubby, don't even move naturally. That is still fits the image pretty well because I kept the most basic roles and it communicated what I intended. I say this to help you to realize that you can lower your expectations and look at this whole topic of drawing cans like a simple, playful experiment, has a stressful task. So let's just try to create a little play with the construction. So select this construction and hit the Select tool and actually you can make it smaller, make it bigger, you can distort it. And actually I'm going to distort it. And it means that I can make it longer. And I want to make it a little bit smaller. So like, I don't want this fingers to be this long. Alright? And I will display with this construction, you can do that. Fraley, alright? So I will just exaggerate this thin rest. I will just draw it like this. Okay? Then here is this poem. Then. I will not keep it to perfect. Like this. Just quickly follow the shapes and don't even think about these last word are joining. We are just drawing this sausage fingers. And yeah, here's this pinky. Maybe I can draw one here. And you don't even need to draw this one. Look at this. It will just a little bit complicated the whole. But if you leave it out, it will be total in natural. I don't like this wrist, so I will just make it a bit more Like this. Yeah. I will note the nails. And voila, here is my very stylized. And maybe this index finger is a bit too chubby, but it doesn't matter. This is practice. Alright, so let's just do a little recap of what we have done in this video. We have learned that we can communicate so much with the, with the lines and we did shapes. And in illustration we have to actually stylized illustration. We don't need to go into too much detail. We don't need to keep it real or goal is to communicate ideas. So if we can do so, like for example, even with leaving out a finger or moving the fingers are naturally, it is totally okay. This isn't a magic world and illustration that we can do. Anything. We need to keep these rules that we have five fingers maybe that the middle finger is the highest or the thumb is the smallest and the chubby biased. So that the viewer of the illustration realizes or understands that it is a hand. So keeping these characteristics help us to communicate our ideas. But actually we have artistic freedom and we can stylize our drawings. Alright, so I hope this helped you a little bit to understand how to work with these things. And now let's move on to the colors are right. So see you in the next video. 10. Colors: In this video, I will be talking about the best ways to find color for the skin in your illustrations. Color is a very important aspect of every illustration. As we are talking about hands, we will need to find a perfect colors for the skin. In this video, we will be talking about the best ways to find the colors of the skin. It is not easy to find skin colors. Most artists experiment out there palette for the skin tones and use those in all of their illustrations. So your task now will be to find the perfect colors for painting skin in your artworks. If you don't have them already in their resources, you can find a color palette I created for you, right? This one. You can obviously use that or choose only some from it and add them to your own palette. Let's just see how did I create this palette? So you can see now in this little skew circles how I combine these two colors together to paint skin. But I need a base and I need a color for the shading as we already did, right? We had the colors, these gray ones for the shadows. Every color that we have at desk line is for shading. And these are the base colors and these are these color pairs or color combinations that you can actually vary as you wish to start with, the base of the skin color is a bit peachy, bright color. Obviously, it depends on the skin type can raise even lighting situation. The important information here is that it is a warm color. Warm. If we go to the disk, you can see or if you, I hope you know that this is the color wheel approximately here is aligned. So these are the cool colors and these are the warm colors. When we are choosing or skin color. I love to choose it at the classic. I usually go to a bit orangey color and add this area to have it really bright. And we'll go a little bit more, more reddish. And this is perfect color for skin. Again, it depends on the skin. Alright, so and the situation, the character is n. But this is the most basic rule that I love to keep because if you choose a color for the, for the skin, let this be this one. Okay. I will use it now to paint. I would create a new color here. To paint a circle. I will hold down like this. And painted this is my peachy light color. And now for the shading, it is better to choose a cooler and a bit darker color. So to go to cooler, it doesn't mean that it will be like blue or pink or purple. It means that you can slide it a little bit. I will choose a brown color and slide it from worm. Little bit brighter. Let's go on to desk. These colors next to each other. As you can see here, if I push it to the bit pinkish, it already goes to a bit darker. And here are the brows. I choose a little bit brown color here, or it is a little bit magenta, but it will work. Okay. Maybe I can go back to this reddish and it would give me this nice brown color. Okay, I'll let just try these two. So if I alpha lock this layer and I will choose my shadow, brush and shade, I'll just say we'll make it smaller. I will shade it here. Can you see that? It looks so great, they fit together. And now if I want to add a detail, I choose the freckles. Just add them here and I have a skin. Can you see that? It looks so great. So I've done this with all these little color combinations. This is a totally new one. Actually, I can add it to the color palette and I love it so much. So actually I'm going to use that in my illustration just to prove to you that I'm alright. I will add them into the color palettes, so you will receive the color palette, which has these colors. Okay? This is one way how you can choose skin colors. So let's do a little recap on it. So choose a light, peachy, bright, warm color for the base and for the shadows. Choose a cooler and darker version of it. You can add skin details with the freckled brush. And there you go. So here you have 12345. Now six color combinations that you can choose from. There is another way. And it is so fun. If you go to the palettes and click the Create New Palette button. You can create one from photos. And if you created photos of your own hand, you can create a palette from that. Let's do it. I just chose the photo of my hand that I had like here. And here you go, Here you have so many nice skin colors and you can just grab ones that you like and put it into our palette. So this is a really nice way to do so if you want to draw skin and you cannot just find the perfect color combination on your own. You can just take a photo of your hand, put it in as a color palette, and choose the ones that you like. Totally easy, super cool tool in Procreate. Alright, so these are the ways you can choose colors for your skin. Now let's see what we can do with our brushes on what are their functions. And then we can move into illustration. 11. Brushes: In this video, I'm going to show you the brushes that I have created for you. So in this video, let me just shortly show you the functions of these brushes so that you know how to use them. So we have the sketching pencil, this we used already. This is where great for details. For example, driving nails. Then we have a drop shadow. Drop shadow is good when we add some props to the hand, for example, bracelets or rings, we can add a little drop shadow and also where things such there is a little bit of line and little bit of drop shadow where these touch and this drop shadow brushes perfect for adding this shadows. Then we have this shadow brush. Obviously, we can add shadows with it. We have the Shaper, and this is the one that we will use when painting for building up shapes. And we will put shadows on those. And then we have the freckles that give you the skin details that you don't really need to use if you don't want to. Okay, so are you ready? I think we can move on to the painting part. See you in the next video where we're going to start by creating a scotch. 12. The Sketch: Alright, so this is the most exciting part of it. Let's just create a new canvas for creating or artifact. And when I'm going to do is to use a square canvas because I want this artwork to fit Instagram. Yeah. Okay, So square canvas. Now what about this catch? But I would suggest is you can go into any of these sketches that you have already done and put it into it so that you don't need to draw. Again. I want you to enjoy these guys. Don't get too much overwhelmed with it. I would love to use this one in this little stylized version. So I will go here and grab this catch that I have here. So those, so I will hold down this layer. As you can see, I'm grabbing it. Go here. Okay. I will make it bigger. And also I will I want this hand to be a bit this way as if it was holding something. Okay. I can do so as well. Like this. I will make the sketch lasso pack. I will create a new layer over it and refine the sketch a little bit. So I will go back to black and the sketching pencil. And now I'm going to speed this up while I am like refining the whole sketch. As you can see, I play with the shapes that is so much feminine. Now, it is so nicely refined. It will look pretty well. And I will just add some prompts that will make this a little bit nicer. Okay? So it looks pretty well. I will make it a little bit bigger to fit the image. I don't really know if we need to place anything in the hand. I will just keep it as it is. Okay. I will turn off this back background layer. I added tattoos. I've added some bracelet. Really enhance that. I added a ring, I added some tattoos, and now I am ready to continue. Alright, now that we have this catch, I think we are ready to move one to start painting. Let's do nothing. The next video. 13. Painting: All right, So let's start painting. The way I'm illustrating is that I, again, lower the opacity of this illustration. And I will create a new layer below it, and I will choose the skin color. I will go back to the palettes. I will choose this, hence palette as my default. Go back and I told you that I will use this one. So let's keep that promise. I will choose the shape, okay, so the first step is to use the shaper to build the shape. So now I'm going to go for this index finger, the thumb and wrist and the whole hand. And on one layer and second layer we will have the fingers that are at the back. Okay, so again, I'm going to speed this up. Also. I will lower the background color a little bit gray because this is a pretty bright color and I want to see the shapes on creating better. So this will help me. Okay. Alright. Now I can alpha lock this layer and choose the darker version and the shadows. And if you remember, we had shadows like down here and a little bit of a disk part. So I will make this a little bit bigger and lower the opacity of this brush, so it is smoother like this. And then I will add these shadows here. Pretty nice. But let's just continue and add a layer below this hand. And Jews the same color for the skin, we're just going to shade them a bit darker. So if this front distracts, you can turn it off and just draw these ones. It doesn't distract me. So I will keep My Shaper, this skin tone and just be a layer below it and continue. Alright. Okay. I will again alpha lock this layer, choose this darker version of the color, choose the shadows. Let's just start with this finger. Okay? Maybe I'll make it a little bit like this size. And when we transparent, what I want is to make this finger that dark where they need to carry so that you can differentiate the fingernail is in the front from the finger that is here and approximately from here. So I will just add this darkness. If you overdone it holds down for the original skin color and just go back. You can always do that. If you're saying that it is too much. Okay. This finger, it is very dark, but maybe not that dark. So I will just go over several times and try not to fail it fully with that color or soviet the pinky tried to keep it this side and just a little bit darker. Here. You can look at the original image. For these shadows. Feel how few. I love it. I will turn the sketch back on. And let's just add the tattoos. This is my favorite part. So see you in the next video where we are going to work on this little cool things. Alright, so see you there. 14. The Cool Stuff 1.: Alright, so I will just start with adding the tattoos because that's my favorite part. If you take a look on the color palette you have here, here is a color. It is indigo blue, and it looks so great as tattoos. And for adding tattoos, I will use the sketching pencil, okay? And I will create a new layer on the top. And if you can see, it looks super cool. I will a little bit at it. This shape to make it a bit nicer, solidly nice. Then you can actually make it a clipping mask so that the tattoos don't go outside of the shape of the hand. Okay. Okay. It looks so cool. Now, let's add the bracelet. And I thought that it could have like this color blue. Because why not? I will create a new layer above and just add This little circles. And I will add shadows to it. So I will now turn off the sketch and alpha lock this bracelet and choose this indigo. Now we have here and choose the shadows and make a little bit smaller. And I will add shadows to these little circles like this. Okay? I'm going to maybe choose a very bright one, very small. And to add a little bit of light on top, these little circles, I really like pearls. Like this. I will edit some shapes here and there. And what is important now is to add a drop shadow, right? So I will create a new layer and put that layer below this one. It is okay that it is a clipping mask because we want this shadow to fit only the handshape so it is totally okay. I will just add this shadow to this clipping mask layer. And I can go to the adjustments Gaussian blur and blur it a little bit. There will be an effect that this bracelet has a little bit of shadow on the hand. Can you see that? It looks totally cool. Alright. I will add another bracelet hair, and I will choose it to be another, any color. I will make it a little bit of orangey, maybe lighter, yellow. Okay. I will create a new layer above this two and choose this shaper. Yes, I will Alpha Lock, choose a darker version, little bit orangey. Think. And choose the shadow. And just add a little bit of a shadow into it. Like desk. And you know what I'm going to do? I am going to go to the layer of this drop shadow. Choose the drop shadow again with black. Maybe create a new layer for this one and make it a clipping mask because we are going to Gaussian blur it again and make it a little bit of shadow below this bracelets. Okay. The skin. So much fun. I love to do this so much. It can stay like this. Harsh, harsher shadows. Alright, so I don't want this to be too long. See you in the next video where we're going to finish up with the nails and the ring. 15. The Cool Stuff 2.: Alright, so let's continue. Let's choose a color for the nails. And now I have red ones, but before I had like a color like this. So I will just try to make it like that. I will choose this shaper, create a new layer above all, and just add to that layer the fingernails. And turn off the sketch. K and alpha lock these shapes and choose a darker version with the shadows. And I'm going to just add a little bit of shadows to the fingernails. As you can see, I'm missing some pixels here. And let me just show you a pro tip how to fix that. So I will create a new layer below. Choose the skin color and just paint below. It helps, maybe with a shaper. And it has gone. Okay. This is a great way to get rid of that. Okay, and now let's do the ring. I will turn on the sketch. I will choose maybe this yellow because I want to fit. I will create a new layer. Alpha lock. I choose this dark. Again. I've, I've found it into history. Okay, so I'll just choose a darker version of an orange color. Shadows, make it small, and just add shadows like this. And I will make it a bit bigger so that it looks like it really is on a finger and not in the skin. Okay. And yeah, the drop shadows, I will create a layer below again. Jews did drop shadow, brush the black and a bit of a shadow below this. And I will just Gaussian blur it like this. It looks a little bit to a digital format. So this is the point where I'm going to add the freckles. I will choose this darker color and freckles and create a new layer above the base hand. Whoops. I didn't make it where it transparent. And maybe a little bit bigger and just experiment. You can add little bit of freckles here in there. Alright, and let's finish it up. Let's choose the background color. I will go to the background color and see what colors fits my hand. Who's good? I will create a new layer above the background. Choose another color and shadow brush. I can create a texture over it. What I'm missing from this tanned as the details and the wrinkles, right? This is why this looks a bit unnatural. So after rehab this little background color, I'm going to create a layer on the top. Choose brown, but make it a little bit lighter and more brownish. I choose a brown like this and choose the sketching pencil, and I will just add the wrinkles. Alright, so what do you think? I think this hand looks pretty amazing. I will add a little special magic element that I always do. Okay? There is some magic coming out from this hand. Maybe this little witches already doing some magic. And there is this nebula. Let's try it. Maybe with this pink. Make it bigger. And then I just add some magic here. Wow, this looks pretty great. Okay. It already makes sense. Alright, I love it. This is so magical. Oh my God, I love it. Alright, so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and this class and that you now are more confident in drawing cans and then illustrating ends. And that we destroyed the procrastination and your fear of drawing hands. You can see that it is doable. So let's just do a little recap on what we have done during this illustration process. So at first, we have chosen the base skin color and added the base skin shapes. Then we added shadows so that we have the dimension. And actually, it is not necessarily it is, it depends on what kind of illustration style you have. If you are like kinda this more realistic so that you add is very nice gradations to create the new mentioned. Or you are doing flat design or this edgy shadows. It depends on you, but basically we had the base shapes. We added shadows to that than we added details like the tattoos. We created the bracelets with drop shadows and also the ring. Then we added the fingernails, which shadows? Then we created a background. Okay, this is estab dot you can exchange. But then we added details with the sketching pencil. So we added the wrinkles and we drawn around the nails to make it look even better. And then we added a magic and will allow, we have this beautiful hand illustration. I'm really proud of you and I can't wait to see your artworks in the project gallery. Now see you in the final video where we're going to do a little recap on the whole class. So see you there. 16. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on finishing the class. I am so proud of you and I'm sure that you can be proud of your new skill as well. Let's just take a look on what we have learned in this class. In this class you have learned that by approaching drawing hands, just like drawing, any other object, can help you. You need to identify the basic geometric shapes and user combination as a base for your job's. You'll learn to draw hands in different angles and poses, and also different styles that simple changes in drawing lines can give you. Then you'll learn about the easiest way for choosing skin color. And lastly, you illustrated the hand with some cool accessories. Such a fun way to learn to illustrate hands, right? Make sure to upload your project to the project gallery. And when you are sharing it on social media, tag me as the art mother. 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