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Yu Hsien Hsu
Please give me your advice. I take the photo of my hand and then use the grid system to measure the accurate shape. Critique is appreciated!
@neena
3yr
it looks really good
@neena
can anybody help me with these hands
Satch
3yr
Hi Neena, I think you are doing a good job following the lesson. The Hands don't even look bad. However there is one big issue and a couple of minor issues. The big issue is structure and perspective. In the first picture there is a problem with the middle finger and the the way the joints are placed. The two joints in the middle section of the phalange converge to completely different vanishing points. Also the structure of the Palm is not correct. The boxes of the palm don't read as solid structures and feel very flat. This also has to do with perspective. I would advise you to start drawing some (actually many) boxes. This will help develop your eye and a feeling for a more 3D understanding on the paper. I personally grinded through the 250 box challange from drawabox.com. The more minor issues are mainly proportions and the positioning of the thumb. The thumb should be positioned right at the line for the half circle of the carpal. You put the thumb where the carpal connects to the radius. Simply shift it up and you are good to go. Regarding proportions: Keep the half rule in mind that proko introduced in the lesson. So dividing the complete length of the hand (carpal to tip of the middle finger) is the length of the palm, dividing that is the first sections of the phalange and dividing that again gives us the position of the last joint. It would be best if you also consider the connection of the hand to the arm. I think it is totaly ok to simplify the ulna and radius into one structure, however keep perspective in mind when doing so. Other than that, your drawings look very clean with continues lines. I know it is very hard when starting out with drawing and being overwhelmed with the amount of information coming in. It takes time, patience and practice to develop a feeling for space on paper and an eye for proportion and the dexterity to execute it, to be able to draw something that feels solid and is convincing. Keep at it and you will improve. I would have loved to go over your drawings with you together to show you exactly what I mean. However I hope, that you can take some things away from this feedback.
@neena
my first attempt at drawing hands. are these ok? any suggetions to improve?
Jesse W.
3yr
What has been helping me is to first lay in a basic shape with gesture lines, as Stan suggests in one of these hand videos. It helps with stiffness and proportion problems, as they're much easier to spot and solve at the lay-in stage. hand bones at that point are almost minor forms that fit within the gestural lay-in. I also separated the carpal mass as an egg shape from the box of he metacarpals. Made it a bit easier for me personally to reason about wrist-hand orientation and proportions
Krutikesh Patel
Asked for help
Please dont pull the puches, looking for critique.
@neena
3yr
looks great but the right eye socket looks a little pointy and i think the jaw is a little lower than it should be.
Jerry Duan
Hello guys. I think I kinda rushed this one. I didn't feel like drawing each specific shape of the each phalanges. Is what I'm drawing enough? Thanks in advance.
@neena
3yr
these look good rough but you know they look like hands i cant seem to draw hands if my life depended on it
Satch
Hi everyone. This is my submission for the hand assignment. Since I was still struggeling with the bones of the forearm, I included them into the assignment. I feel like the right hands on the first picture where the best. In picture 2 i was still struggeling with the phalanges. In picture 3 the metacarples where two long in my undersketch. I corrected it as i was drawing the final structure.
@neena
3yr
wow these are really good i just started on my hands, lets just say by the looks of it mine are not from earth
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