Handy

[Ian Mack]

I've been going through a book called "Drawing Dynamic Hands" by Burne Hogarth. I try to draw at least one of the pics from each page. I drew them in pencil and inked them with Pantone markers and then auto-lvl'd in PS.

http://art.basementlife.net/Portfolio/hand03.jpg
http://art.basementlife.net/Portfolio/hand02.jpg
http://art.basementlife.net/Portfolio/hand01.jpg

Any critiques on my use of the markers ? I've never used them before...

[Jason Manley]

my only crit is to do about a million more

get great at it...become the best hand artist around...if you can do that you can do anything.


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[Hardcore]

Those are nice hands ....:chug:

[Ian Mack]

There are over a hundred pages...I'm @ Page 30. : p

There will be many dw's of hands by the time I am done with this book!(And then on to the next one)

[I.was.ink]

That is one awesome book. One thing I suggest, other than Manley's suggestion, is to actually pay attention to what he says and don't do it just to copy, and say that you can draw nice hands. I'm not saying you are, but i've seen some people do that before. Just a heads up!:D

Great stuf btw, I will practice drawing hands more today!

[Ian Mack]

I was thinking about that today! So what I'm going to do is make notes as I draw. From the book and from my own observations.

[Ian Mack]

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand01.jpg
http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand02.jpg

The latest. Just breaking pics.

[R_M]

Have the same book and I use it a lot,
a couple of advice:
1) make 2 or 3 hands every day, not more, just do it every day!
2) in the beginning I used to draw the hands in the same poses as in the book, but I learned much more while working on the drawings that show how the hand works, and how it is build up with geometric shapes.
Now I always make a grid in my head before drawing a hand, and that helps a lot for where youneed to place the different joints.
3) understand how the hand works.

[Ian Mack]

Hey R_M, could you elaborate on this point ?

2) in the beginning I used to draw the hands in the same poses as in the book, but I learned much more while working on the drawings that show how the hand works, and how it is build up with geometric shapes.
Now I always make a grid in my head before drawing a hand, and that helps a lot for where youneed to place the different joints.

Because I'm drawing them in the same poses as in the book right now. You change them and still show the same things ?

When you say you learned alot more on the drawings that show how the hand works, what drawings are you referring to ?

oh, and http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand03.jpg

[R_M]

hej otherside

in the beginning I was coping Hogarths hands, like you, and anyone who has used his book can tell you what page you are on! If you have experience drawing and shading with a pencil, and it is obvious that you do, it is pretty easy to copy Hogarths finished hands. You are in the books chapter two...:D
but chapter one is much better! that is were I got the most out of the book, cause it is here that it shows you how a hand works and how to build one from skartch.
if you master the basic geometries you can start change finger position, placement and that is where the real learning is!
Still I have to admit your drawings are better than mine. but try out a position that isn't in the book, when you have mastered that it is time to try the hand interacting with an object. try also to draw the same position but with different hands: kid, adultmale, old man, woman and so on....it will teach you the differences between hands..

just reread this post, and I sound like a proffessor of mine who thinks he is the real thing, so don't think to much about it. But now I want to update my hand thread, it should be here somewhere!?!

[Ian Mack]

Thanks for the comments teach ! ;)

I had completely forgotten about that chapter. (I started doing this during school and then had to put it down)

I agree with what you say about learning the basic structure of the hand. I think what I'll do is continue to go through the book but I will try to show what Hogarth teaches with my own drawings. ie. different angles, old, young hands.

[Ian Mack]

What you said about learning to construct the hands struck me. I haven't had a chance to draw in a few days but today I pulled out my anatomy book and did a sketch of the hand.

I'll learn the hand from the skeletons, to the muscles and then to every angle!

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand04.jpg

[Ian Mack]

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand05.jpg

Got my next one done! This was quite a bit harder and didn't turn out very well. I used the skeleton underneath the paper to get the sizing but it didn't work! wtf. I should have just drawn it by eye.

[R_M]

Good ones, it might not be the funniest thing to draw, but in my case I got I real satisfaction when a hand turned out well.
keep it up!

[Ian Mack]

I feel satisfaction simply from knowing what the names of the bones are...I've read that the masters had to know the skelton, the muscles structure by heart. Able to draw it all, and name it all on command. And as I learn more about the hand, I feel I'm taking a solid step in that direction.

I want my art to be a career and this is the first step to developing that career, and likewise, my own style. :rant:

Anyway, enough of the rant. Here's today's piece. The top one I copied from the book and the lower one, I sketched out using what I had learned of the skeleton and the arcs of the fingertips. Please post crits of it!

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand06.jpg

[Ian Mack]

Got a new one..
http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand07.jpg

[Ian Mack]

Double images today.

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand08.jpg

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand09.jpg

[amphex]

Wow..your last 3 look phenomenal!
Keep it up man, I cant wait to see what you do after youve finished this book.
Your ability to grasp the whole form of the hand so cleanly and firmly is very inspirational for me.
What did you do to get such a great touch on your lines?!

[Ian Mack]

Thanks Amphex!

I have a light orange animation pencil that I use to lightly sketch in the dimensions of the hand before I apply pencil to it. Then I work the image in using an H, HB, and 3B(to outline the entire drawing). so yea. :p

here's another. The bottom hand is a quick sketch, testing out what I learned from page.54 Something is wrong with, I've just got to figure out what. Maybe the way I drew the head of the Ulnar bone ?

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand10.jpg

[Ian Mack]

http://art.basementlife.net/images/hand11.jpg

oi...losin' steam on this project. So many hands! :electric:

[R_M]

Try something else then...
this look good, you could do the same with eyes only, or hands holding on to some objects.

[Ian Mack]

I think what I'm going to try and do now is stop copying from the book. Rather, I'd like to see what the book is trying to teach me and then draw from life based on that.