Drawing Hands In Action Poses - Dynamic Drawing Course

1. Intro: Hi there. Drawing hands can feel like a nightmare. But it's time to stop hiding those hands behind your characters and put them back in the spotlight. Hi, I'm Patrici from Don Korgi, a professional artist and art teacher. And I'm here to show you how to draw dynamic hands in action poses step by step. We'll start with drawing the gesture of the hand to add extra expression to your hands. Then we'll break down the basic shapes, refine them and clean everything out. Each lesson is designed to be short and digestible, so you can easily follow along and practice. By the end of this class, you'll have a collection of dynamic hand drawings that you'll be proud of. You'll also get helpful assignments to improve your art skills, as well as some handy references to give you a boost. Are you ready to get started? Join now and I'll see you in the next video. 2. References & Resources: Hello, and welcome. Before we start drawing, I wanted to give you a little something that will help us practice drawing our hands. I've created a pack full of hand references. These references are all portraying different actions, so you can practice hands in different angles and positions. We'll be using these photos throughout the following videos. Some are more complex than others. Choose the ones you feel more comfortable with. For example, if you're feeling a bit overwhelmed, start with easier poses. Then you can slowly grow from there and start trying to draw more complex poses. It's all up to you. Don't forget to download this pack. Take a good look at each photo and then follow me to the next video. 3. Drawing The Gesture Of The Hand: Hi and welcome back. Before doing a refined drawing of a hand, let's first do a quick warm up by drawing a few gestures of hands. But first, what is a gesture drawing? To put it simply, it's a quick drawing of something where the goal is to capture and focus on the movement. Here, we ignore most details so we can improve at capturing the movement. This exercise is most often done when drawing the full body and capturing a pose. However, you can also do it with other subjects such as the hands. Our goal here is mostly to warm up. Get familiar with hands and their movements, as well as their shape. These drawings are not supposed to be perfect. What matters is that you draw the pose of the hand and that the pose is understandable. You can even time your drawings if you want. For example, 2 minutes per hand is usually a good number to start, since it allows you enough time to observe the pose and draw it, but also not long enough so you can get lost in details. It's a good idea to practice this exercise before going for other more refined drawings. This way, you get to warm up. But also get less overwhelmed about what you'll draw later. By not focusing on details and capturing a perfect drawing, you get more confident and relaxed about your art. With that said, follow me to the next video where we'll talk about your first assignment. 4. First Quick Assignment: Hello, and welcome back, fellow artist. It's time for your first assignment. We talked about the gesture of the hand in the previous video, and now it's time to actually practice that. Again, this is a very quick exercise where you just want to capture the movement and pose of the hand with as few strokes as possible. Don't focus on details, only the pose. First, download the Hefferns pack I gave you if you haven't yet, then pick three photos. And now all you have to do is draw three quick gestures of the photos you chose. That's it. If you want, set a timer for each gesture. 2 minutes is usually a good number to start with. I highly recommend you use a timer so you don't lose yourself in details. This is it for now. Have fun, and don't forget to post your gestures, so I can see them and give you any feedback you need. I'll be doing the exact same exercise and you can see my demonstration in the next video. I will see you there. 5. DEMO: Drawing The Gesture Of The Hand: All right. Hello and welcome back. In the previous video, we talked about your assignment, and now I'm going to demonstrate how I would go about when doing this assignment. I have here three references and these are the ones I'm going to use. Let's start with our first one. First thing I'm going to do is to lower the opacity. So if you're going to be drawing the gesture of a hand or anything really, and you're feeling a little bit overwhelmed and are not very confident about doing this. One thing we can do is to first find the gesture on the image itself. Just slower the opacity like I'm doing here. If you're doing this traditionally, you can print the images with the opacity lowered. It's a bit transparent and then draw on top of those images with a pencil or a pen. The first thing you're going to do is to find the shapes on the image itself. For example, in this case, I'm going to go, maybe not a circle. We can go and do a bein shape like this, then circle here for the thumb. I like to use circles for the thumb, and then the rest of the fingers. For me, this will be it. I think these are good shapes for a gesture, very quick, just a few shapes and lines, circles a pin shape and lines, and that's it. When you find those, you can go to the side. And draw the same thing. Ben shape, it's bigger on one side than the other, and we have here a circle for the thumb line and another circle for the thumb right here. Now from here, we have one finger, then the other one here. Here and our final finger going right here. I can even go ahead and draw here a bit of the arm. There we go. Very quick. It might be a bit weird. You can draw shapes for the fingers if you want. I like to keep things simple. This is just a quick gesture, nothing too detailed, and it can be weird. It's fine. Same thing when drawing the human body. Sometimes we can end up with weird shapes, and that's perfectly fine. Because then afterwards, after the gesture, this is just a warm up, but you can actually use these images and work on them, refine them a bit at some shadows and then details and so on and so on, which we'll be doing in the next videos. First gesture then, let's go for the second one. Let's go in, find the shapes. I'm going to say something like this. Circle for the thumb. Dumb right here. Now we have here this shape. You can do something like this, or we can do shapes, that's totally up to you. It really depends on how you like. You can do shapes or you can do lines. We have our pen. If there's an object in your image, it's good to draw it because otherwise, it might be a bit too weird. Sometimes, it's difficult to see the position of the hand if you don't draw the object, so feel free to draw the object as well. It can help. Now repeating my shapes here. We got something like this. Top. It doesn't need to look perfect or exactly the same as the first image you did. There we go. We forgot the thumb here. There we go, something like this, and this. Then we got our pan right here. These are just quick duals. You don't need to add any kind of unnecessary detail. We're just going through the motions of the gesture of the hand. One finger here, and the other one here, there we go. I can even finish here my thumb with a shape. This is it. Fix anything that needs fixing and go for the next one. Our third image. Here we go two hands. Once again, find shapes. Here we have the hand, we can go to the wrist. Now instead of drawing all the fingers, you can also just join them together with a bigger shape if that helps you. Again, we got here our thumb. Then I'm going to say we got here one finger, and then the big shape for the other three fingers. That's it. We got our quart here. Now for this one, let's see how we can do this. We can do like been shape here. Circle for the thumb, wrist. And then our thumb right here. Now we can do some shapes for the fingers. Again, we can join some of these together, something like this. If it makes sense, you can join the shapes together. This is just a gesture, nothing too complicated. There we go. Let's start with the first hand now, repeat our our gestures, the lines we found, and we got something like this, and then like this. We got cord going right through here. Now we've got a pin shape happening in there. As you can see, I'm being very messy with my lines. I'm just going for the gesture. I'm not focusing on details or on having a perfect drawing. I just want a gesture. I just want to sketch. We got these two fingers. Then this one. That's what we did. Then we have this one here. A There we go. This is it. Three different gestures, very messy, sure. But the puse is there. Again, you can use a ter if you prefer or just draw it with other aer. As I'm doing here, it's totally up to you. This is it, three gestures, just simple shapes or lines. Whenever you're ready, follow me to the next video, where we'll be starting to refine our hand drawings. I'll see you there. 6. Finding Basic Shapes In Hands: Hello, and welcome back. Now that we've warmed up a bit, we can start refining our drawings, doing something a bit more detailed step by step. The first thing we're going to do is the basic shapes. When learning anything in drawing, it's a good idea to try to break down everything into simple shapes. This can be circles, rectangles, square, triangles, as long as it helps you. And it's understandable for you. Again, I'm going to start doing this. This is still a bit of gesture drawing, but a bit more complex. We're focusing on shapes here, not just the movement itself, or the gesture itself. I'm going to go over here. And start, let me just lower the opacity a bit more, there we will and start finding the shape. First shape, as you can see, it's very similar to the one we did before. Basically, it doesn't matter the position the hand is in. The shapes will probably be the same. You just need to adapt them to the position the hand is in. We always have this squared shape for the palm of the hand. It can change a bit depending on the position, but it's almost always the same shape. Now for the time here, I'm going to start with a circle and then a hetangular shape. There we go. You can use the same image as before for the gesture we did, or you can use a new one. I wanted to use a new one just so we have some diversity here of hands, so you can see different things. But you can use the exact same one you use for a gesture. It can be even helpful since you already have a base there, and then you can start finding the shapes. Let's continue. Here, I'm going to draw a lemon wedge and there we go part of it is done. Now let's continue. Next finger. We can't really see most of it. But we do see here bit of its reflection. Next finger, we know it goes up to here part of it. Then I'm going to draw a bullet shape for the rest of the finger. Now here things start getting a bit more complicated, but it's fine, try to find simple shapes. We can start by a rectangle again. Then we got here a circle. And we can even turn that circle into a cylinder like this. Now we connect this to just like this. Now the same thing for the left finger, circle here and create a cylinder right here. There we go. We have here our hand, you can even if you want, you can also draw the object. The hand is grabbing. It's usually helpful if you do. There we go. We found our shapes and now we're going to practice them. You want to practice the shapes you found without the help of the image below it. I'm going to go here to the side and start trying the same shapes. We had here our square for the palm of the hand, something like this. It doesn't need to be perfect. The circle for the thumb is going up and lemon wedge. Here, the direction of the palm of the hand is a bit wrong, so I'm fixing that. There we go. Something like this. You don't have to worry about it being exactly the same as before. Usually, you will not be able to draw the same thing twice exactly the same. Don't worry too much about doing that. We just want to find the right proportions. I'm just drawing the glass. As you can see, I'm not being too detailed about it, just going with it, just simple loose lines. We got here, our reflection, one finger, then we got the other one here. I'm always looking at my image. If you see there's anything wrong, you can just go back to a draw some draw it to the side. For example, I'm seeing here that the glass is not really in the right place. I'm going to redo that. Always looking at my image to the side. Bullet shape right here, and now we know that the glass let's go through here. Here we have our other shape, goes up to here, the circle. Or cylinder and connect both. Now another circle cylinder and connect here. It's always possible to fix your drawing, so don't worry too much. You can fix it next time if needed. This is it for now, I've found my shapes. I practice them. Take your time if you want to draw your own hand. Another thing I want you to remember is that there are no right shapes. Basically, as long as it makes sense to you and it works, then it's right. The shapes I find might not be the you find. Take your time and I will see you in the next video. 7. Refining Your Sketch & Details!: All right. Hello and welcome back. We're going for the next step of drawing our hand, which is a refined sketch. Basically we're going to take the shapes we did, but start adding more details or start giving it more of a hand look. I'm keeping my image right here, my reference, so I can always take a look at it whenever needed. Now I'm going to go in and start adding some details. I'm going to start outlining my hand here. I like to start, I just noticed something. This cup is not in the right place for this finger. Let's just fix that very quickly. Following our image and and not get distracted. Let's start with the thumb. I always like to start with the thumb. I don't know why I feel like it's a very central area of the hand. That's what I like to start with, but it doesn't need to be the place where you start. Tom D, going to add here to one of the wrist. As you can see, I'm still being very loose with this, can add my nail here. I'm still not being perfect with my lines. We're just going and adding any details we might need. Now, next finger. I'm not going to pay too much attention to the glass. I just want to mostly focus on my hand here. We have here the ref, the other finger right there. I just want to focus on the hand, although it is useful to have the glass right there, but I'm not going to be refining it too much. Another finger t. As you can see, I'm just going over the previous mines. I think those kind of details, the nail, the lines, those lines we have on our fingers, where the finger folds now here, we have the same. Now we are missing here, these lines of the hand. They are also very useful to add some more expression to your hands. Basically, this is it. We're going to go through our first shapes and start adding some details, more expression to our drawing, and you can see that it's already a bit different drawing here, a more refined. We already see a bit more details in the hand. Remember that it's always possible to fix anything in your drawing. Even if you're doing this, Traditionally, it's always possible to change things around and fix anything you think needs fixing, like I'm doing right now. This is also the time that you can fix any kind of mistake you think you did throughout your drawing. This is it for now. Also, you don't need to be super realistic with your drawings. Personally, I like to just have my own take of it. I don't like for things to be super realistic. Of course, it depends on everyone and their preferences, but I like for my drawings to resemble the reference, but not being an exact copy of it. Now all you have to do is clean up our drawing. Follow me to the next video, where we'll be doing that. 8. Finishing Your Drawing!: All right. Hello, and welcome back. Here we are. We are almost done with our drawing of hand. Now it's time to actually finish our drawing. What we're going to do is take this sketch and clean the line. What I'm going to do is lower the opacity of my image. Now I'm going to create a new layer on top, going to pick black as my line color, but you can pick anything else, and then a brush. I'm using clip studio paint, and I like to use the G pin for this. But you can use whatever brush you want. It's totally up to you and if you're doing this traditional, you can use a pen or you can just refine it with a pencil its, however you feel most comfortable with it. I'm going to keep here my image in case I've missed anything again, just like it happened before. And I'm just going to go over on my lines. We have the sketch. All you have to do now is draw it over again with some clean lines. I like to be very rough with them, but this time, being a bit less messy with the lines. Basically, that's it. But it can be fun to keep some expression in your lines. But again, this is all a matter of preference while drawing. Again, as you can see, I'm being very rough with the glass here. I'm not focusing on the glass right now. I just want to draw my head. And this is mostly it. There we go. A hand holding a glass now. Is it exactly the same as my image? Not really. There's always some difference. But again, it's a matter of preference about being very realistic or just giving it your own take, but the pose is there. I like to be rough with these lines. I think it can be very fun and I think it gives a bit more expression to it sometimes and more movement. If you want, you can even go in and add some color to your drawing. See here. Can very quickly just color it. Now this is completely optional. But if you want to add something extra to your drawing, it can be fun to color it. Again, I'm being very rough with it. T sometimes avoiding being perfect with our drawings can be very advantageous for our drawings. Give some extra expression to it. There we go. We can even add some shadows to it. There we go. Here is our hand. From start to finish. If you want, you can just stick to the shapes phase for a while. Just do that with several hand pauses, and then when you feel confident in those shapes, you can go for the next phase, which is refining the sketch, and so on. As always, just take your time. There's no rush in doing this. Whenever you're ready, follow me to the next video where we'll be talking about your assignment. 9. New Assignment Time: Hello and welcome back. We just went through the whole process of drawing hands in actionable poses. As you can see, drawing hands in different poses can be a bit more complex. But by breaking it down into smaller steps makes the whole process much easier. Not only that, but it's also a good idea to practice the gesture of it first, so you can get more familiar with the movement. Now, we already practice some gesture drawing. What I want you to do now is to choose one photo from the reference pack. And draw that hand from start to finish, just as we did in the class. Start by finding the shapes, then refining the sketch and adding details, and finally clean everything up with new lines. If you want, you can even color your drawing. Once you're done, you can post your drawing. I always like to see your art from these assignments. This is it for now. Have fun with your assignment, and I'll see you in the next video. 10. Conclusion:Before You Go!: Hello again. Thank you so much for joining my class on drawing dynamic hands. I hope you've enjoyed the lessons and found them helpful in improving your artistic skills. It's been a pleasure guiding you through each step, and I'm excited to see how your hand drawings have evolved. If you've enjoyed this class and found it valuable, I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave a review. Your feedback helps me improve and helps other students find the right courses for their needs. Keep practicing, stay creative, and remember, keep on drawing.