Non-Pone Drawings: Hand sketches/practice.

When it comes to drawing humans, one of the most common issues people have is drawing hands. Hands are possibly the most complex arrangement on the human body, with more varying contours and individual anatomical parts than others, such as the limbs, face, etc. It's easy to get in to the habit of not drawing hands, and simply hiding them. Whether beyond the boundaries of the drawing, or in pockets, or whatever.

I've been meaning to do some serious hand-practice for a long time. I finally got to it today, after much anxiety about how it would turn out. I just typed in "hand" in google image search, and drew based on the photos that came up. I didn't pick them out based on any criteria. I just drew each full size picture of a single hand in the order they came up, until I had five on the page (at which point there was no more room).

Anyway, here are the results;

Of all the results, I think that only one of them looks really screwed up. the others turned out okay. Or at least better than I expected. I need to do more of this in the future.

I found this nice article, which should be useful in going forward;

http://www.anticz.com/handtut.htm

A well drawn human hand is actually pretty impressive on a technical level, once you realize how challenging it is to do.