Chapter 1 | HANDS
Exercise 1: In the next image I show you the structure of the hand. Trace the row from left to right. Don’t skip a drawing.
Step 1: the wrist (always start the following steps with the wrist).
Step 2: the back of your hand and the shape where the fingers fit. Note the arc shapes. If you hold your fingers together, they are narrower at the fingertips. Just check with yourself.
Step 3: Divide the space for the fingers into quarters.
Step 4: Finally, draw the thumb that starts at the wrist. Draw the thumb fairly straight on the outside and a little rounder on the inside.
Exercise 2: Now draw the next row of hands one by one. In drawing 1 the shapes have been made a bit rounder and the fingers are looser from each other. In drawing 2 you see the same hand on the inside, with the palm and the heel of the thumb. In drawings 3 and 4 the fingers are spread.
In the following examples you can see from the red lines where the wrist, fingers and thumb can bend. The nails are now also drawn. Short or long nails are always slightly less wide than the fingers themselves. Nails lie in their ‘nail bed’. On the right an example with long nails.
Exercise 3: draw the examples with the dashes and, if necessary, the example with long nails.
Phalanges and nails Hand with long nagels
Exercise 4: Take a look at the model hand in different poses. Draw some of these hands and let them do or hold something of your own choice.
Here are some examples of pupil’s results:
