Wow!! These hands look really really good. I love how you did the shading! These edge work is phenomenal. Awesome work!

Gorgeous work! I think you blew it out of the water with the two hands. The only thing that really jumps out to me is that it looks like the knuckle of the pointer finger on #4 is behind the knuckle of the middle finger. I'd have to see the reference, but it seems a bit strange to me.

Awesome work, Peter!

Hey viny, These are some cool hand poses to draw, keep at it. I do have some notes on your drawings: make sure you see the fingers as 3D shapes, use the fingernails to help with perspective and watch out for your volumes. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean, hope it helps :)

These are awesome!

Very nice work, really clean lines too. Perhaps the foreshortening is a little bit too exaggerated in the last one, but I like where you're going with it.

Cool drawings! The gesture and anatomy looks pretty good! - The proportions are a little off, so the hand feels a little broken at times, since things aren't interlocking in the right spot. You might benefit from doing hand drawings where you focus only on the major forms. Kinda like a mannequinization of the hand. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!

Hi @Margaret Langston, nice studies! Yeah, I really found the thumb difficult too. I think it will help to study where its root is. You don't have to go crazy about details, just find the carpo metacarpal joint and indicate it as a sphere. I think continuing to practice drawing things from imagination, is something you'll benefit from. It's a great way to test & deepen your knowledge. I like to follow this routine: 1. Draw from imagination 2. Check were I'm off, with reference. Studying the part I got wrong. 3. Draw again from imagination, spinning the object into a different position. And this is usually what I do, apart from doing the assignments. Really helps you get to know the anatomy, which makes drawing from reference much easier. When you draw form imagination, or when you're studying reference to later draw from imagination, I think you would benefit from using a more gestural approach, kinda what you see Glenn Vilppu or David Colman doing. Start by drawing and feeling the flow, as if there was a river flowing through and across the forms. Then add the major volumes, as if they were rocks interacting with the water, then consider anatomical details. You might appreciate watching this video Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu. From 21:00 he shows how he first draws a flow, then contains it with volumes. Hope this helps :)

Just a student here, so take what you want from my comment. I think your overall analysis of forms and proportion are very, very good - much better than I can do with hands. That being said, on foreshortening specifically, I got a lot of benefit from reading Michael Hampton's figure book's hands section. In it, he talks about drawing interlocking balls and cylinders in space to learn how T overlaps and form overlaps play into creating a sense of depth and three dimensionality. By simplifying the problem space down to cylinders for finger bones and spheres for joints, the overlap relationships between fingers and joints becomes clarified. In your work I do see some overlapping, but might want to explore pushing it farther to really build a sends of depth and dimensionality. In the last one, especially, I'd love to see how it might look with a an emphasis on t-overlaps and cross contours explaining the interlock between finger sections. Good luck

Nice work! The main thing I see is your pinkys tend to be too big/long as compared to the other fingers. For better female hands I would look up artists you like and copy from them to learn how it can be done smoother.

Hey edodum, These hands are actually pretty good, nice drawing! A couple of things I noticed is that you were a little sloppy with using the creases and lines in the hand and fingers to show perspective. This might be why your thumbs just didn't look right. Also, try to use corners in your drawings to help sell the structure a little more. I did some drawing to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)

So good

Really nice! - In #3, the middle and distant phalanges of the index finger look too short. They look like they're the same size as the pinky's. - In #3, the thumb looks a bit small/thin, and the middle finger might be too thick. - In #6, I would double check that the end of the metacarpals are properly placed. It feels like the fingers don't have enough space. Hope this helps :)