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[Enrichment] Hands and Feet
Iruka
Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
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Hands and Feet
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In the journey of learning human anatomy, the hand is one of the hardest tasks you will take on. Accurate hands in a drawing have a power to convey emotion and narrative. Their complexity can be frightening, and new artist often ignore or hide them, in an effort to not broadcast a lack of understanding of them.
In this enrichment, the goal is to slow down and focus on the hand. You can take the detailed anatomical approach and do intense study, or begin to learn how to simplify those forms into expressive, stylized illustrations. Try new poses and complex gestures rather than your standard turkey hand. Disembody the hands at first, and then challenge yourself to actually place them on a figure. All of this is to get flipper hands, ambiguous poses, and hidden limbs out of your work. Push your self to work through those frustrations.
You may choose to work on some, or all of the following:
Master Copies: Study hands in master paintings and work to figure out why they are successful
Draw from life: You have your own hand, you have no excuse, set up a mirror for extra challenges
Study simplification and gesture: not flipper hands, but genuine attempts at cartooning are acceptable, just make sure you are pushing yourself
Take reference photos If you'd like to participate by taking some quality pics of your hands (or someone elses) go for it. Links to photos and sources are also fine.
Oh, feet are acceptable too because why not!
Look, a tumblr I made just for you guys, just for this! >>>> http://justhandreference.tumblr.com/ <<<<
You are so special!
And some inspiration for you:
http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html
You can spend 20 minutes 20 hours on this, either way, try to focus on figuring out something new!
>>Enrichment Directory<<
In the journey of learning human anatomy, the hand is one of the hardest tasks you will take on. Accurate hands in a drawing have a power to convey emotion and narrative. Their complexity can be frightening, and new artist often ignore or hide them, in an effort to not broadcast a lack of understanding of them.
In this enrichment, the goal is to slow down and focus on the hand. You can take the detailed anatomical approach and do intense study, or begin to learn how to simplify those forms into expressive, stylized illustrations. Try new poses and complex gestures rather than your standard turkey hand. Disembody the hands at first, and then challenge yourself to actually place them on a figure. All of this is to get flipper hands, ambiguous poses, and hidden limbs out of your work. Push your self to work through those frustrations.
You may choose to work on some, or all of the following:
Master Copies: Study hands in master paintings and work to figure out why they are successful
Draw from life: You have your own hand, you have no excuse, set up a mirror for extra challenges
Study simplification and gesture: not flipper hands, but genuine attempts at cartooning are acceptable, just make sure you are pushing yourself
Take reference photos If you'd like to participate by taking some quality pics of your hands (or someone elses) go for it. Links to photos and sources are also fine.
Oh, feet are acceptable too because why not!
Look, a tumblr I made just for you guys, just for this! >>>> http://justhandreference.tumblr.com/ <<<<
You are so special!
And some inspiration for you:
http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html
You can spend 20 minutes 20 hours on this, either way, try to focus on figuring out something new!
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I'm gonna try and get in on this one because feet make me want to do terrible, terrible things.
PS i'm in no way affiliated with the app. I just think it's really awesome.
Had that as an open tab. Of course I'm pretty rubbish about actually doing the exercises, but it's another source of ref for those working on this month's challenge.
Thank you for this wonderful tip!
some sign?
@ninjai: post one or two of those bigger, they are hard to crit at such a small size.
I tried to pick the ones with the most mistakes These are ball point, done pretty small.
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Some feets from Senshistock reference.
Those Celtic and Germanic feet are mildly terrifying.
Situation excellent. I am attacking.
- General Ferdinand Foch
Such an awesome challenge idea! Arms and legs in my drawings too often trail off into nothing because I haven't taken the time to figure out the extremities... feeling totally inspired now to change that.
Edit: I tried another shot at it:
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In below pic, big toe is flexed so the toenail is almost edge-on
I didn't realize how much thinking I do while drawing until I tried to talk and do it at the same time. I learned a good lesson about waffling between sketching lines and sketching values, I should have picked one or the other and gone for it. I should have more free time after next week, and be able to put in some good effort.
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Will use better ref next time.
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Firman drew really cool hands when I saw him in April and I tried to copy him like the unoriginal turd I am and mostly failed (the cute stumpy fingers kind)
EDIT: Also, my thumbs are really stumpy, you may have heard of "toe thumbs" and I used my own hands for a lot of reference and I forget how to draw "normal" thumbs. Which is a terrible excuse for bad art.