Drawing Hands for Beginners: Anatomy, Angles, and Application

1. Intro: My name is Evan sportsman and welcome to my Skillshare class, drawing hands for beginners. Now, initially, I just wanted to do something to give a thank you to all of my Skillshare students who helped me to achieve a really cool milestone in my future career, which was 100 students across all the macronutrients. But I'm so thankful to everybody for helping me to achieve that milestone. I wanted to be able to continue to focus on anatomy like we do in my other classes though. You want to come in and say, Well, we don't want them other clays as you can and tackle something that is really a hot topic right now. And also something that a lot of artists get intimidated by. A lot of people weren't from hands. If you look at a lot of people's drawings and things, they'll draw people with their hands behind their back or, you know, nobody wants to draw and write down like, okay, let's do the hand we could do. Now I'm going to do this same process. Admit that I always do, which is taking things that are very complex and breaking them down into their simplest parts, stuck. Here's what we're gonna do. 2. Class Description: This mini class to have the confidence and skills needed to start out drawing hands like a beginner with the skills and the knowledge to get started like pro, okay. I know I know it's intimidating. I know you guys may feel like, oh man, I'm able to do this, but I promise you, I'm gonna get you started on the right track. Okay. Just work with me here. So how are you going to need? Are a couple of things for this class. Gives you a piece of paper, a pencil, and if you don't set okay with a bypass, let's dive right in to join hands for beginners. Learn all about the anatomy, right? Let's go. 3. Proportions: Well, first things first, make sure you have your paper, your pencil, with your eraser and your ruler. Okay? Now I am measuring out the first step which is to draw a rectangle. I'm using a ruler measuring out like 6 " for the height and 3 " for the width. But if you don't have a ruler, Use the length and the width of your hand. Put your hand on the paper and use that as your measurement. Okay? Just like we did in elementary school. Okay. Now, once you have that, this is our base. Okay. Gerard is big as you want your hand to be. Then you're going to split your rectangle in half. Okay. Joss offline in the middle. Split it in half. 4. Structure: Now the next thing we're gonna do, we're gonna focus on our palm. Ok, the palm shape. Now, some people, they kinda do maybe more of a rectangular shape for some people do a trapezium shape. I learned it more like using a trapezium shape, but I'm going to split screen and show you kind of a little bit just more free spirited, I guess you could say, way of achieving the palm structure. Okay, So just kinda follow along with me and it will make a little more sense. Okay? I'm just going to start here on the left side, following my rectangular box, coming up slightly above the split. Coming down on the right side. And right there, the bottom in closing my structure. Okay. You have all right, guys keeping up. So now we're going to think about the thumb. We're gonna go to the left side. The left side, and he's going to add a triangle structure. Let me straighten it out a little bit. Yeah, don't be afraid to use it erased, but that's what we have for use at erase the honey. Yeah. Okay. Now. 5. Drawing the Fingers: Now we're going to set the base for our fingers. At the base for our fingers. So we're going to come in at the bottom of our palms structure. And then how about the top? And we're going to trace a curve line along the top of our rectangle, okay? Along the top, we're not going to go over this arbitrary triangle just along the top. Like that. Okay? Now, you see, we got to find those knuckles. Yeah, it's tricky. And remember, I'm, I'm breaking it down to its basic lines and shapes. Sunny. So let's focus on the split screen again. Knuckles. Just a little debts. As I'll let me fix that with every little bit high, it would go knuckles and wherever you see a knuckle, place a de novo. And on the thumb right there. Check is the 0. And looking at how it lines up with the pointer finger. Now, when you talk about the shape of your actual finger, It's like a cylinder shape. Okay? It's not flat. It's three-dimensional, so we have to give our fingers dimension. So let's go in and do that. Now. I'll speed this up a little bit. Rounding it out when we get to the fingertips. And they can go a little bit above our line at the top, then go a little bit above the line at the top. Always remember when you're drawing these fingers. Okay. Keep in mind, keep in mind the links of everybody's fingers. Keep all that in mind. Make sure you keep those fingertips behind it. Okay. 6. Adding Flesh Around Fingers: What I am going to do next is I'm going to start building some flesh around these knuckles. Okay? That's what I'm going to start doing. Alright. And started building some flesh around these knuckles is real important to put some skin on the bone. I used to always tell my students in clays when we were drawing the face, especially, you know, like these are the bare bones. This is the skeletal part. Now. You got to put some skin on it, right? I put the flesh on, we got to make it come to life. And so this is a very important part, especially when it comes to the skin between the fingers and how that looks and how it connects. And stretches that little webbed part in-between the fingers. That can get tricky for people, especially in-between the thumb and the pointer. So you may have to go back and refine some stuff, but that's okay. Because remember, we're beginners, withdrawn like beginners, but with the skills and the confidence to start Logger Pro. Okay, so let's just keep going. Keep going. I know one thing I can do. All right, keep building, keep refining. Then you wanna go ahead and start erasing those guidelines. You, you don't need them anymore. You don't need them anymore. We gone speed is part of 7. Adding Fingernails & Skin Wrinkles: Okay. Yeah. And we are back. I had to switch pencils and everything mallet went out. Okay, now we're getting ready to fill a nice Neil bits. Okay, this is another super important part. When filling in the nail beds, you want to follow that same pattern of enter your fingertips. Okay. And where the cuticle is right here, I want to make sure you have kinda curd figure as well, curved line at the bottom. You want to make it straight across as what you don't want to do, okay. It's still inorganic form. You definitely still want to have it rounded out. And when you talk about like the wrinkles in our fingers, E right there, See that? You want to make sure we just put a few little lines going across and yeah, we're almost at the finish line. I could see it. You have drawn a hand. Beginner style. You you've done it. Come in and make your little refinements. One of the little part I'm going to work on, this builds on we'll even having a very sad grandmother lotteries cuticle. Now. Knuckle on the top. Is it right there? Like they vainly looking part? Yes, we want to focus on that now, some people is really pronounce. Some not so much. On babies. Looks more like a little dimple sometimes, but softly, not too hard. Place it in there. Okay. And this is why I like I say, it's really important to use a reference to look good. So you can look at your other hand. Normally helps out a lot or a picture of a hand if you if you have one on deck, but like I said, I'm gonna help you guys out with that. I think we're done. Yeah. We are. Go back and check yourself, look and see how you feeling. But the hands are there. 8. Outro: I may mean giant filled name. But how do you feel now? I feel good. Okay. Took matters into your own hands. Now I'm joking, I'm joking. But Ruth up, I know this was a mini class is very brief in comparison to my other classes on Skillshare, but I know it was jam packed with information on how to draw hands for beginners. I wanted you guys to walk away with the confidence, at least to start drawing hands. Even though we're beginners, you're not going to learn how to draw hands and an hour you're not going to learn how to draw hands in a day or week, takes time and practice. So I've left you with the resources to help you continue on your path to becoming pros at drawing hands, right? But we did get some good information. Clay as it leaves, we started out knowing how to get the basics down, starting with that middle point, going up when finding our knuckles with those points. And then the lines, all of that connecting it together, building the flesh around it with some good things at the Clay Shaw, I didn't even get to the shading part. I need you to do two things for two major things. One, leave me a review. If you, if you really enjoyed the class, please leave me a review. Please tell a friend, tell a friend, someone, come on, go see we have a sportsman talking about on Skillshare or Instagram, YouTube website. I'm here for you, okay? Make sure you let me know. But most importantly, and especially as a former teacher in the classroom over living years. Okay. Don't come in my glaze and alternative. No work? Yes. You you got to turn in your work in the project gallery, post your assignments, post your projects. I want to see what you've done. Then let me know. Hey, oh, I actually did learn something and let me posted and don't be shy. This is a beginners class, are many cores that day. So I don't really expect to see Picasso's, Picasso and Cubism anyway. So your hands are the lack of black. Either way. We're began. Nonetheless, no judgment here. Post your work. I'm just happy to see that you participated. Okay? So post your work. Let me give you some feedback. Give feedback to your classmates. That's what it's all about. We shall nose here. Okay? I promise you, I'm here to make you feel comfortable and I'm here to give you support and guidance on becoming a better artist. That's what it's all about us. Yeah. Okay. And I look forward to working with you all again. So much fun. Yeah, be cool.