For many artists, drawing hands is a rather difficult task. In this lesson, we will deal with the anatomy of the hands in order to simplify and understand all the details as much as possible.
Let's start by examining the bone structure of the hands (picture on the left). 8 carpal bones are drawn in blue, 5 metacarpal bones in purple, 14 phalanges in pink. Since many of these bones don't have the ability to move at all, let's simplify the basic structure of the hand: the picture on the right is all you need to remember when drawing.
Note that the actual base of the fingers - the joint that connects to the knuckles - is much lower than it appears visually. Knowing this is very important, especially when drawing bending fingers, which we will talk about a little later.
So, with all that said, an easy way to sketch a hand is to start with a basic brush shape, a flat outline (much like a steak in shape, but round, square, or trapezoidal) with rounded corners; and then complete the drawing with your fingers. Like this:
As for the fingers, when drawing, you can use the "three cylinders" scheme. Cylinders are quite easy to draw from different viewing angles, which makes it much easier for us to draw fingers in different perspectives. See how this scheme can be applied in practice:
Important: the joints of the fingers are not located in a straight line, but form a kind of "arch":
In addition, the fingers themselves are not straight, but slightly curved. Such a small detail gives significant realism to the drawing:
Let's not forget about the nails. It is not necessary to draw them every time, but let's still deal with the main aspects:
1. The nail starts from the middle of the upper joint of the finger.
2. The point where the nail separates from the flesh is located differently for all people: for someone it is along the very edge of the finger, for someone it is much lower (dotted line in the picture).
3. Nails are not perfectly flat. Rather, they resemble tiles in shape, with a slight bend. Examine your hands and compare the nails on different fingers: you will see that each nail has its own curve - but, fortunately, such fine details can not be drawn on each of your drawings :)
Proportions
So, let's denote the main proportions, using the length of the index finger as the main unit of measurement:
1. The maximum length of the distance between the thumb and forefinger is 1.5.
2. The maximum length of the distance between the index and nameless is 1.
3. The maximum length of the distance between the ring finger and the little finger is 1.
4. The maximum angle that the thumb and little finger form is 90 degrees.
Range of motion
When drawing hands, it is extremely important to know exactly how our hands move.
Let's start with the thumb. Its base, as well as its center of movement, are quite low on the hand.
1. In the usual relaxed state, a space is formed between the thumb and the rest of the fingers.
2. The thumb can be bent so that it touches the base of the little finger, but this will quickly become painful.
3. The thumb can be stretched to the full width of the palm, but it can also be painful.
As for the rest of the fingers, they have a smaller range of motion to the sides, and basically they bend to the front side, parallel to each other. Each finger can be bent individually, but it will still affect the other fingers. For example, try bending just one little finger and see what happens to the rest of your fingers.
When the hand is clenched into a fist, then all the fingers are intertwined together, and the whole hand forms a rounded shape, as if squeezing a large ball.
When the arm is fully extended (in the picture on the right), then the fingers are either straight or slightly bent outward - depending on the plasticity of our hands.
The fully clenched palm deserves special attention:
1. The first and third folds form a cross.
2. The second fold is a continuation of the line of the finger.
3. The part of the finger covered by the skin and the thumb serves as a reminder that the whole structure of the thumb is the furthest from the center.
4. The knuckle of the middle finger protrudes more than the others.
5. The first and third folds again form a cross.
6. The thumb is bent so that its extreme part is shortened.
7. The skin fold in this place sticks out.
8. When the hand is clenched into a fist, the knuckles protrude and become more clearly visible.
Hand as a whole
When the hand is in the normal relaxed state, the fingers are slightly bent - especially if the hand is pointing upwards, then gravity will bend the fingers. In both cases, the index fingers remain the most straight compared to the rest, and the little fingers, on the contrary, the most bent.
Often the little finger "runs away" from the rest of the fingers and is separate from them - this is another way to depict hands in the most realistic way. As for the index and middle, or middle and ring fingers, these are usually paired and "stick" to each other, while the other 2 remain free. This also helps to depict the hand more realistically.
Since all fingers are of different lengths, they always represent a certain gradation. When we take something with our hand, for example, a glass (as in the picture), then the middle finger (1) is most visible, and the little finger (2) is barely shown.
When we hold the pen, the middle finger, ring finger and little finger are bent under the pen.
As you can see, the hand and wrist are perfectly articulated with each other, and each finger, one might say, has its own life. That is why it is very difficult for every novice artist to draw hands. On the other hand, sometimes some go to the other extreme - they try to draw hands too carefully: they carefully draw each finger in its place, observe the proportions and clear parallels of all lines, and so on. And the result, as a rule, is quite hard and not at all expressive. Yes. this can work for certain types of characters - for example, your character naturally has these qualities. But more often than not, you would still like to portray lively, realistic hands, right? The picture shows some positions of the hands in comparison - too unnatural, strained positions are drawn on top, and more natural, natural ones, in a word, those that can be seen in ordinary life around us, are drawn below.
Varieties of hands
As you know, each person's hands have many differences and distinctive features - just like faces. Men's hands are different from women's, the hands of young people are different from the hands of old people, and so on. Below are several classifications.
hand shape
Let's see what different shapes and proportions there are between the fingers and the hand:
Finger shape
Even nails are not the same for everyone! They can be flat or round, and so on.
More practice!
- Pay more attention to people's hands. First, on the anatomy itself: how the fingers look in different positions, how lines and folds appear and disappear, how individual details are strained, and so on. Second, pay attention to the types of hands: how do men's hands differ from women's hands? How do they change with age? How does it depend on the person's weight? Could you recognize someone by just one hand?
- Make quick, dynamic sketches of hands, which can come from any source - your own hands, or the hands of people around you, or just photos. Don't worry about the correct proportions and general appearance and similarity of your sketches; the main thing in sketches is to catch the very expression and express it on paper.
- Draw your own hands in various positions and, using a mirror, from various viewing angles. You can also start with small dynamic sketches.
Drawing hands is one of the most thorny tasks that a novice artist faces. What are hands? Yes, we see them every day, they are constantly in front of us, because we perform most of the actions with the help of them, but at the initial stage hand drawing- these seemingly visual parts of the body, difficulties always arise. In this online drawing lesson, I will try to teach you how, without much difficulty, to understand the plasticity of the hand and the technique of its execution.
1) To learn how to draw hands, first you just need to try to copy (at least from the drawings below), from your own hands, from photographs, and after that, when you encounter certain difficulties, you can study this article in detail and here you will already find answers to common mistakes and some subtleties and tricks when drawing hands.
2) Each drawing, of course, begins with a sketch or sketch. A drawing that is done correctly and proportionately owes, first of all, a sketch. A sketch, especially of parts of the human body, can only be done correctly with knowledge of human proportions or anatomical structure. So, what do we know about the proportions of the human palm. In the figure below, we see that the human palm can be measured relative to the head - from the jawline to the hairline.
3) The next thing we need to know about the structure of the hand for drawing is that the bones, or knuckles, are not located in a straight line - this is a common mistake - they are located in an arc (see example). And in general, as for the hands, there are almost never parallel and even lines. Here everything moves, the hand is multifunctional, the hands are a separate creature, they live their own lives.
4) Fingers on the hand of different lengths. The longest finger is the middle one, the next in descending order is the ring finger, then the index finger (the last two differ slightly in length), the little finger (reaches the upper joint of the ring finger) and the thumb, although the thumb is equal in length to the little finger, it turns out to be lower than all the others and this seems to be the shortest. You also need to know that the length of the middle finger is almost half the length of the palm. The thumb slightly misses the second knuckle of the index finger and basically, when working and moving the hand, it is 90 degrees in relation to the other fingers. The width of the palm is approximately 75% of the length of the palm, or slightly more than half.
5) Despite the fact that the hand is the most flexible and unpredictable, at first glance, part of the body, there are laws by which the hand, palm and fingers live. We all know these laws, but when we start drawing hands, for some reason we forget about them. The mechanical principle of the hand is that the palm can only close and open, and the fingers bend or curl down to the middle of the palm, squeezing the pastern, like a closing flower bud. The hand is concave on the inside, and convex on the outside, the fingers grow tightly, when the fingers are folded, they are a continuous continuation of the palm. An incorrect drawing is one on which the fingers are widely spaced from each other or, when added together (mentally), gaps are obtained.
To master this, you need to watch the hand while it holds something, reaches out, grabs it. Only knowing how the hand works, which phalanges are involved in a particular reflex process, can one convincingly draw a hand in motion or in a static state. Here is another tip that I will give you in order to learn how to draw hands: always divide the palm into three parts: the first part is the base of the palm, the second is the base of the thumb, which cuts off a significant piece from below, the third is the upper bases of the remaining four fingers. The muscle of the thumb (the second part of the palm) is the most powerful of all located in the palm of your hand, it is the most important and most visible, the most convex and voluminous. In the middle of the palm on the inside there is a characteristic hole with the lines of fate. My advice to you: when drawing a hand, first sketch out the lines of the hand, then build blocks or those same three parts based on the lines, it will be easier to depict a natural hand.
6) The bones in the palm and fingers are visible only in the form of knuckles on the back of the hand, in other cases they only form shapes and, when sketched, they can be depicted with lines along which the hand will be built. The fingers consist of several bones, thanks to which they have a rhythmic shape - from each knuckle to another they narrow and expand. In places of joints, the fingers look a little thicker, on the inside there are folds that are located just above the joint. You also need to study the articulated ability of the fingers to bend, so that later you do not draw an implausibly bent finger. The first two joints can bend at a right angle, and the upper ones cannot even at a sharp one. Look at the unconscious dependence of the joints, for example: when the second joint bends, the upper one automatically bends. When the fingers are extended, the upper joint tends to lean back.
The tendons on the hand, visible on the back of the hand, appear as threads or lines that form a straight line from each of the midline of the fingers. They appear when the palm is very tense or arched. It would be a mistake to depict the tendons of the back of the hand in children, adolescents and overweight people, since in these cases they are hidden, not visible or underdeveloped.
7) Another important thing that we will cover in the online lesson "how to draw hands" is the location of the lines of the fingers. Note that the line of the middle finger divides the palm into two equal halves. This line is also at right angles to all the others. This finger is unclenched and compressed exactly to the palm, while the rest, when compressed to the palm, tend to its center, and take an angle.
8) How to draw female hands. As elsewhere, when depicting a woman and her parts, one must remember that the main things here are smoothness and roundness. The knuckles on the fingers and the outer side of the palm of a woman are smaller, the fingers are mostly thin. With clenched fingers, they tend to one point more clearly than in a man, as if a few more centimeters and they would merge into one point.
A hand is such a drawing subject that is always at hand (sorry for the tautology). Even when you draw with one hand, you always have a second one in order to see how the palm or finger, or phalanx behaves in this or that case. Of course, in the technique of drawing a hand, practice is considered the main thing, studying anatomy, behavior and structure is half the battle, and then you need to train and train. The hand is a part of the body that you don't have to draw twice in the same position, so each time you will learn it in a new way, but with the basic knowledge that you have received, these will be little things that you can easily build around the outline base.
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This is a rather difficult lesson, so it may take you quite a lot of effort to repeat it. If the first time you didn’t manage to draw hands, don’t despair and try again. Try your best to complete this lesson. If, however, it still doesn’t work out, you can try to complete the lesson “”. But I believe that you will succeed.
What you need
In order to draw hands, we may need:
- Paper. It is better to take medium-grained special paper: it will be much more pleasant for novice artists to draw on this particular paper.
- Sharpened pencils. I advise you to take several degrees of hardness, each must be used for different purposes.
- Eraser.
- Stick for rubbing hatching. You can use plain paper rolled into a cone. She will rub the shading, turning it into a monotonous color.
- A little patience.
- Good mood.
Step by step lesson
Different parts of the body and human organs should be drawn with a certain degree of realism. This is required by academic drawing. Also, he strongly recommends drawing hands from nature or, in extreme cases, from a photograph. This is the only way to achieve high realism and elaboration.
By the way, in addition to this lesson, I advise you to turn your attention to the lesson "". It will help improve your mastery or just give you a little pleasure.
All complex drawings must be created with forward thinking and vision. The subject should not only be a form on a sheet. You must draw it in volume, that is, creating it from simple geometric bodies as if they are on top of each other: here is a ball on a cube, and here are two balls side by side. All living and non-living things on earth consist of these primitive forms.
Tip: sketch with as light strokes as possible. The thicker the strokes of the sketch, the more difficult it will be to erase them later.
The first step, or rather zero, is always to mark a sheet of paper. This will give you an idea of where exactly the drawing will be. If you place the drawing on half of the sheet, you can use the other half for another drawing. Here is an example of a sheet layout in the center:
Well-drawn hands always ennoble the whole illustration as a whole. Some artists specifically include hands in their subjects.
Anatomy
The most important fact is that the hands are concave on the side of the palm and convex on the back. The bulges are so arranged around the circumference of the palm that you can even hold liquid in it. The hand served the primitive man as a cup, and by placing two palms together in the shape of a cup, he was able to eat food that he could not hold with his fingers alone. The large muscle of the thumb is one of the most important in the hand. This muscle, in interaction with the muscles of other fingers, provides a grip so strong that it allows you to keep your own weight in a suspended state. This powerful muscle can hold a club, a bow, a spear. We can say that the existence of animals depends on the muscles of their jaws, and the existence of man depends on his hands.
It is worth paying attention to the powerful tendon attached to the base of the hand and how the tendons of the fingers are grouped on the back of the hand. These tendons can control both all fingers together, and each individually. The muscles that pull these tendons are located on the forearm. Luckily for the artist, the tendons are mostly hidden from view. In children and young people, the tendons on the back of the hand are not visible, but become more visible with age.
The bones and tendons on the back of the hand are close to the surface, but those around the palm and inside the fingers are hidden from. There is a pad at the base of each finger. It protects the bones lying inside and creates a grip with the object being held.
Proportions of the hand
The next important thing is the crooked placement of the fingertips and knuckles. Two fingers lie on both sides of a line drawn through the middle of the palm. The tendon of the middle finger bisects the back of the hand. Also important is the fact that the thumb moves at right angles to the movement of the other fingers. The knuckles are located slightly in front of the folds below them on the inside of the palm. Pay attention to the curves along which the knuckles are located and that the curve gets steeper the closer the knuckles are to the fingertips.
The middle finger is the key finger that determines the length of the palm. The length of this finger to the joint is slightly more than half the length of the palm. The width of the palm is slightly more than half of its length on the inside. The index finger is almost on the same level with the base of the nail of the middle finger. The ring finger is almost the same length as the index finger. The tip of the little finger is almost on the same level with the last joint of the ring finger.
The figure shows how to correctly determine the position of the palm cavity. Also notice the curve of the back of the hand. Hands will not look natural, capable of grasping until the artist has mastered these details. The hands in the figure are depicted as if they were holding some kind of object. The loud sound of applause is produced by a sharp compression of air between the hollows of the two palms. Poorly drawn hands will look incapable of applauding.
Women's hands
Women's hands differ from men's mainly in that they have smaller bones, less pronounced muscles and a large roundness of the planes. If the middle finger is made at least half the length of the palm, the hand will be more graceful and feminine. Long fingers, oval in shape, add charm.
Man's hands
babies hands
Children's hands are a good drawing exercise in their own right. The main difference from adult hands is that the palm is much thicker compared to small fingers. The muscles of the thumb and the base of the palm are very voluminous, even small children can support their own weight. The knuckles on the back of the hand are hidden by the flesh and visible through the dimples. The base of the palm is completely surrounded by folds; it is much thicker than the pads under the fingers.
Hands of children and teenagers
The proportions are basically the same. At the age of elementary school, the difference between the hand and is small, but in adolescence there are big changes. The boy's arm is larger and stronger, showing the development of bones and muscles. Girls' bones remain smaller, so they never develop as big knuckles as boys. The base of the palms also develops more in boys, in girls it is much softer and smoother. In boys, the nails, as well as the fingers, are slightly wider.
Painting like great artists is not given to everyone. But you can learn to draw if you make an effort.
A lot can be said about a person by their hands. It is very difficult to depict them on paper. But the task of how to draw a hand can be solved with work and diligence.
Anatomy to the rescue
A complex system is the human body. The hands alone consist of several dozen elements. And in order to draw them correctly, you need to know the structure of the hands. Conventionally, the hands can be divided into three main parts: the wrist, metacarpus and fingers.
- The wrist is the part closest to the forearm. It is responsible for the movement of the hand, but all its elements work as a single whole.
- The pastern is the widest part of the hand - the palm.
- The fingers are mobile due to the phalanges. Four fingers (index, middle, ring and little fingers) have 3 phalanges, but the thumb consists of only two phalanges.
Knowing the basics of anatomy will allow you to correctly draw the hands in stages, so that they turn out to be "talking".
It will be easier to draw if, during sketching, you decide what the subject of the image looks like - something simple, even primitive. Agree that the human hand is similar to a shovel, not only in appearance, but also in functionality? With this, you can start a sketch - draw a contour similar to a shovel: the wrist is the stalk of a shovel, and the contour of the palm with fingers is its canvas. It is difficult to immediately decide how to draw a hand with a pencil in stages, which is why it is worth starting with an elementary sketch.
The key is proportions.
In order to correctly and beautifully draw any object or detail, it is necessary to observe proportions - the ratio of different parts to each other. This rule also applies to the image of a person.
So, how to draw a hand? We start by determining the correct proportions. The ratio of the length of the metacarpus and fingers is on average 1:1. Naturally, this ratio will vary slightly for different people, because some have long fingers, while others do not. But on average, the proportions will be equivalent.
Depending on the length of the fingers, the contour of the palm will be either more elongated or square. With thin lines (even before drawing the hand), draw the outline of the brush according to the proportions. The thumb does not fit into the overall silhouette, it is always somewhat apart from the other four "brothers".
Draw fingers
The fingers are mobile and flexible due to their articular structure, each of the three or two phalanges, if we are talking about the thumb, is attached to each other with the help of joints and tendons. The bones of the phalanges, located one after the other, become shorter and thinner, so the fingers gradually become thinner.
Ideally, each phalanx is 2/3 the length of the previous one. These proportions are called the golden section - it is perceived by the eye as the most perfect.
Again, when drawing details, it is necessary to make allowances for individual characteristics - not every person's hands have harmonious proportions. It should also be remembered that the fingers are not the same in length: the longest finger is the middle, index and are approximately the same and shorter than the middle finger, the smallest are the little finger and thumb. Although the big one is rather the thickest. Its length corresponds to the length of the little finger.
Lines are the basis of certainty
Before you draw a human hand, analyze again what parts the hand consists of. Remember that the contours of the palm and fingers, taking on concrete forms in the drawing, become more and more rounded. For example, the line connecting the fingers and the palm is in the form of an arc, as is the outline of the hand itself - the different lengths of the fingers make it possible to obtain a semicircle when drawing the fingers clenched together. The thumb is somewhat turned in relation to the rest of the palm, its contour will not be straight, but somewhat rounded.
Small details matter
We sketched out the contour of the palm, then we begin to deal with the details. So, how to draw a hand reliably? This is impossible without drawing small details - folds, thickenings, fold lines, the contour of the nail plate on each finger. These seemingly minor touches will make the drawing more realistic.
Let's start with the fold lines on the fingers. As already mentioned, the wrist, palm and fingers are made up of many elements. They allow the fingers to perform the functionality for which they are given to a person. How to draw a hand so that it looks as natural as possible? With the help of drawing all the nuances. In places where the bones are connected by joints, there will definitely be folds both on the inside and on the outside of the palm. If the hand is drawn from the inside, it is necessary to draw the so-called "life lines" - deep enough grooves in the places where the joints of the palm work.
Each finger at the end is protected by a fingernail - a hard plate that must be drawn to make the image realistic. The nail plate is another essential element in solving the problem of how to draw a hand. Nails can have a different shape - from elongated almond-shaped to almost square.
Fingers indicate a person's age. Children's fingers are rounded, with a uniform thinning along the entire length. The older a person gets, the clearer the traces of time appear on the hands. For example, in older people, the thickness of the fingers will be uneven - the joints become more and more swollen with age, many years of work and illness affect. Also, the joints are very visible in thin people.
How to draw a hand in different positions?
Hands not only gradually participate in the conversation, but often they themselves serve as a "language", for example, in sign language. Palms and fingers will clearly tell what a person is thinking about at a given moment in time, what his mood is, what he is doing. How to draw a hand so that it truthfully reveals all the secrets?
Always when depicting the human body, it is necessary to rely on the basics of anatomy. Hands are no exception. The size of a fist, for example, is determined by the length and fingers. And the rule of the golden section will be important in any position of the fingers, even clenched into a fist. When drawing an open palm, special attention should be paid to drawing the lines of the metacarpus and slightly bent fingers.
And how to draw a hand on the side? In this case, it will be important to draw the viewer's attention to the fact that from the back the palm and fingers will be drawn in almost straight lines, but from the inside, both the fingers and the palm itself have pads, which must be drawn with rounded, smooth lines.
Step-by-step drawing of human hands, with a systematic transition from a sketch to drawing small details, however, like any other object, will allow you to get a realistic drawing.
Hands: the basics
Search for joints
Essentially, there is an invisible line that runs through the middle finger and through the center of the wrist. It should be perpendicular to a horizontal line across the wrist.
At the intersection of the lines, a circle is drawn, around which the hand rotates freely.
Depending on the person's hand, the position of the joints on the fingers also varies. However, to give an idea of where the joints should be, you can draw two curved lines coming out of the thumbnail. If you add wrinkles in these places, the hands will look very natural.
moving parts
Now we will look at how the hand moves. Once you understand these basics, you will be able to draw realistic hands.
Each area of the hand will be marked with a color, which will correspond to text of the same color.
Inner side
This area moves towards itself, along with four fingers.
Outer side
This area is not moving - this is very important to remember.
This area moves with the thumb towards the inside of the palm.
This area moves with the little finger, however, the movement is small.
hand drawing
Let's draw the outline of the hand in the shape of an egg. The top of the egg will be the end of the middle finger. Next, draw the continuation of the hand, wrist and circle inside.
Now we outline where the thumb, palm and four fingers will be. For convenience, you can draw a vertical line through the center of the palm.
Notice how the fingers are connected and how they move.
Make the outline smooth and erase the auxiliary lines.
The size and shape of the hand differs from person to person: wide palm, narrow palm, long fingers, short fingers. This list can be continued - therefore, there are rules in proportions when drawing a hand.
Basically, the length of the hands is approximately equal to the length of the middle finger doubled.
The middle finger is usually the longest. The index and ring fingers are approximately equal, but sometimes the ring finger is longer. The little finger reaches the top joint of the ring finger.
In order to understand how the muscles and skin move, consider the diagram of the bones of the hand.
Note that the bones of the index, middle, ring, and little fingers are mostly connected, which means they cannot move far apart. The thumb has a much wider range of motion.
There is a big difference between the male and female hand. The human hand looks more masculine if it is given a more angular shape, and more feminine if it is given a soft roundness.
On average, the nail is about half the length from the tip of the finger to the first joint.
Female nails are drawn more elongated and rounded, while male nails are more square and angular.
Let's draw a circle that will match the basic shape of the fist. Then add the lines of the thumb and wrist.
If you find it difficult to imagine where the thumb will be, just make a fist with your hand and take a closer look at the position.
The back and top of the hand does not move, so you just need to pay attention to how the fingers are connected. We mark the upper part of the hand and four fingers, as a rule, the same width.
As for the shadow, you can add it to create more realistic depth.
However, how detailed you will draw the hand is up to you. Find your style that works best for you!
Various drawing options fist
This drawing shows a hand clenched into a fist from the outside. The index finger is much higher than all the others.
In this drawing, three fingers are pressed to the palm, the thumb is pushed back, and the index finger points to a point.
Please note that with the help of shadows and wrinkles, the index finger looks voluminous. The same applies to the fist, despite the fact that only some phalanges are drawn for three fingers, a volume effect is created.
This picture shows a hand clenched into a fist from the inside. The index finger is also higher than all the others.
There are various ways to place wrinkles and shadows in order to create the effect of fist volume.
Movement from an open hand to clenching it into a fist.
If you still find it difficult to draw fingers, imagine them as cylindrical elements that connect with each other to form fingers.
However, sometimes it is necessary to slightly distort the fingers to give more depth.
For example, in the image, you see the index finger curved in an unnatural way, but it looks much more realistic than a direct appeal.
How to draw a hand with a pencil step by step
Step one.
Step two.
Step three.
Step four.
Step five.
1. Marking the contour of the hand
Indeed, if you need to draw a hand on the entire sheet of paper, then it is easier to outline the outline of your hand, and then, using some of the tips from this lesson, just add details.
If you need to draw a hand on a reduced scale, then first put two points for the wrist and five points for the fingers.
Please note that not the index, but the middle finger on the hand is the longest.
2. Straight contour lines of the fingers
The length of the fingers is different. They say musicians have very long fingers. Among the nobles, long and refined fingers emphasized aristocratic origin. Maybe, but we will draw a regular hand, so divide the segment where the little finger will be in half, and draw a line from it, parallel to the points outlined earlier.
For the thumb, draw a rectangular outline.
3. Draw the real contours of the fingers of the hand
At this stage, you only need to trace the straight contours of the fingers with a pencil and give them real shapes. Perhaps these preliminary contours will be inaccurate, then the shape of each finger can be refined separately.
4. General contour line of the hand
At this step, you can correct the contours of the fingers. Make a deeper "angle" for the thumb, but you can leave the original outline, at your discretion.
Make a markup of the phalanxes and remove extra contour lines from the drawing.
5. The hand drawing is almost finished
First of all, draw the fingernails on the hand. Highlight the joints of the fingers with a few strokes and you can say that the drawing of the hand is finished. It remains only to draw a few details in the next step.
6. How to draw a hand. Shadows
In humans, the knuckles of the hands have "wrinkles" or folds that stretch when the fingers are squeezed, make these areas darker. There is an area between the fingers that also needs to be highlighted. To make the hand look voluminous in the figure, you can make some of the contour lines darker and thicker. In this case, choose from which side you will have a light source.
It may seem that drawing a hand is not difficult at all. Try to draw, and then compare your hand with the resulting drawing.
Anatomy
The most important fact is that the hands are concave on the side of the palm and convex on the back. The bulges are so arranged around the circumference of the palm that you can even hold liquid in it. The hand served the primitive man as a cup, and by placing two palms together in the shape of a cup, he was able to eat food that he could not hold with his fingers alone. The large muscle of the thumb is one of the most important in the hand. This muscle, in interaction with the muscles of other fingers, provides a grip so strong that it allows you to keep your own weight in a suspended state. This powerful muscle can hold a club, a bow, a spear. We can say that the existence of animals depends on their jaw muscles, and the existence of man depends on his hands. 
It is worth paying attention to the powerful tendon attached to the base of the hand and how the tendons of the fingers are grouped on the back of the hand. These tendons can control both all fingers together, and each individually. The muscles that pull these tendons are located on the forearm. Luckily for the artist, the tendons are mostly hidden from view. In children and young people, the tendons on the back of the hand are not visible, but become more visible with age. 
The bones and tendons on the back of the hand are close to the surface, but those around the palm and fingers inside are hidden from view. There is a pad at the base of each finger. It protects the bones lying inside and creates a grip with the object being held.
Proportions of the hand
The next important thing is the crooked placement of the fingertips and knuckles. Two fingers lie on either side of a line drawn through the middle of the palm. The tendon of the middle finger bisects the back of the hand. Also important is the fact that the thumb moves at right angles to the movement of the other fingers. The knuckles are located slightly in front of the folds below them on the inside of the palm. Pay attention to the curves along which the knuckles are located and that the curve gets steeper the closer the knuckles are to the fingertips. 
The middle finger is the key finger that determines the length of the palm. The length of this finger to the joint is slightly more than half the length of the palm. The width of the palm is slightly more than half of its length on the inside. The index finger is almost on the same level with the base of the nail of the middle finger. The ring finger is almost the same length as the index finger. The tip of the little finger is almost on the same level with the last joint of the ring finger. 
The figure shows how to correctly determine the position of the palm cavity. Also notice the curve of the back of the hand. Hands will not look natural, capable of grasping until the artist has mastered these details. The hands in the figure are depicted as if they were holding some kind of object. The loud sound of applause is produced by a sharp compression of air between the hollows of the two palms. Poorly drawn hands will look incapable of applauding. 
Women's hands
Women's hands differ from men's mainly in that they have smaller bones, less pronounced muscles and a large roundness of the planes. If the middle finger is made at least half the length of the palm, the hand will be more graceful and feminine. Long fingers, oval in shape, add charm. 
Man's hands
babies hands
Children's hands are in themselves a good drawing exercise. The main difference from adult hands is that the palm is much thicker compared to small fingers. The muscles of the thumb and the base of the palm are very voluminous, even small children can support their own weight. The knuckles on the back of the hand are hidden by the flesh and visible through the dimples. The base of the palm is completely surrounded by folds; it is much thicker than the pads under the fingers. 
Hands of children and teenagers
The proportions are basically the same. At the age of elementary school, the difference between the hand of a boy and a girl is small, but in adolescence there are big changes. The boy's arm is larger and stronger, showing the development of bones and muscles. Girls' bones remain smaller, so they never develop as big knuckles as boys. The base of the palms also develops more in boys, in girls it is much softer and smoother. In boys, the nails, as well as the fingers, are slightly wider. 
Children's hands are a cross between the hands of a baby and the hands of a teenager. This means that the muscles of the thumb and the base of the palm are proportionately thicker than in an adult, but thinner in comparison to the fingers than in an infant. Fingers in relation to the palm are the same as in adults. The arm as a whole is smaller, slightly fuller, dimpled, and the knuckles are certainly more rounded.
Old people's hands
Having mastered the design of hands, you will enjoy drawing the hands of older people. In fact, they are easier to draw than the hands of young people, because the anatomy and construction of the hand is more noticeable. The basics are still the same, but the fingers are getting thicker, the joints are bigger, the knuckles are protruding more strongly. The skin becomes wrinkled, but this wrinkling needs to be emphasized only in a close-up view. 
Let's start ! Start drawing basic shapes and lines. This is useful so that you can keep the shape of the hand and the proportions of the joints.
First, let's draw on the base line of the upper and visible ending of the forearm at the level of the wrist!
Now draw the basic shape of the index finger!
And now, along the base of the thumb, the lines and shapes of it itself. The hand took shape pretty quickly.
And now draw the shape of the middle finger!
The next step is nameless. Fingers become less and less visible. But the joints line up and the proportion and beauty of the lines are noticeable.
And now your last finger in the basic form - a drawing for a small finger - the little finger! And you did everything quickly on the basic shape of the hand from the first step!
Now draw the nails on the fingers, as you can see them on your own or in the photographs.
Draw small details of the folds in the joints and skin folds. They are on both sides. The hand in a relaxed state tends to shrink.
Here are some small details that you also need to draw in order to give the drawing a realistic look/
You did it! Now you have to apply shadows and light yourself.
First, start drawing the hand with anatomical tips! We will try to refresh or replenish our knowledge about the structure of the human body. This is very useful, because most beginner artists can find their hands difficult. Well, let's start with anatomy and you will better understand the drawing of a human hand!
Here is a slightly enlarged anatomy of your fingers so you can get a better look at the bones and remember their main parts. We will always use them for the base of the hand drawing.
Maybe it doesn't seem important, but when you draw larger hands you will need help choosing the type of nails. You can choose the best ones for your character in the picture!
And here's some extra help in the picture, so you can clearly see and compare the difference for your character's age and gender!
Here are some sketches of hands that give an idea for the drawing style of realistic hands! You should start with any style based on their actual appearance.
And now the options for hands from comics or fairy-tale characters. These are just a few examples. You won't notice too much of a difference between realistic and comic or fantasy style.
In cartoon style, there are more noticeable differences from realism. It's always helpful if you look closely at that particular detail in the cartoons you watch, and then you can pick a style you like and start creating your own for that part of the drawing.
If you have animal characters, then these examples will come in handy! Basically, when your animal character walks on two legs, his/her front arms or paws are more like real arms and hands, so you should draw them like human arms, only with some animal specificity and style.
And now, the last part of the preparation for drawing the hand. These are the options, angles and positions of the hands and fingers. First, let's look at simpler options and catch the basic principle for the joints and proportions of the fingers and palms. For a female hand, you can increase flexibility, and for a male, increase angularity.
Step 10
Now the drawings are somewhat more difficult, from a different point of view and angle! This is an expression of emotions, gestures accompanying words and actions.
This part of the preparation will already be really difficult, but not impossible! When you start drawing hands harder than these, you will remember with a smile. We're just looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of bases and shapes, and will start moving towards hatching, shading and color grading and editing. And now we are just warming up!
1. You can fit several options for turning your hand at once. Mark them with a base oval and a guide line.
2. How to draw hands. Start drawing individual fingers.
3. The next step is to draw in more detail the contours.
4. Erase unnecessary lines, mark small skin folds and nails.
5. How to draw hands. With a TM pencil, shade the shadow on the brush, just try not to darken it right away.
6. The next brush is deployed a little differently. This angle can be used quite often in drawings. Outline the general shape.
7. Refine the drawing of the fingertips. How to draw a cat.
8. Draw nails with a sharpened pencil.
9. Use a soft eraser to remove all unnecessary construction lines. How to draw a dragon.
10. Feel free to proceed with the black-and-white study.
11. Now you can try to draw horizontal arms. Just like in the previous sketches, start by laying out the general shape.
12. Work out the contours of the hands in detail.
13. Using a soft pencil, you can accentuate the drawing so that it looks natural.
14. With a hard pencil, draw a shadow on the lower arm.
15. Do the same with the top.
STEP 3. anime hands
Here is a typical anime/manga hand, as it looks painted with fingers spread. When painted, you should end up with something like this.
STEP 4. anime hands
Let's start this first drawing step by drawing an inverted bell shape for the middle part of the arm. Once this is drawn, add five lines for the fingers. I've added some arrows to show you how far apart each finger should look.
STEP 5.
Now that you've drawn the skeleton of the hand, you can add three circles on each finger. These circles will help you draw the anime/manga finger shapes. Before moving on to the next step, draw a line for the wrist.
STEP 6.
In this sixth step we will start drawing the shape of the fingers and hand. Once that's done, let's add the shape of the right side of the wrist.
STEP 7. how to draw hands
In this step, we will simply add the lines of the joint and bones of the wrist. Once that's done, start erasing all the instructions and shapes that you've drawn in the previous steps.
STEP 8.
this is what your hand should look like
STEP 10. draw anime hands
Start the clenched fist from the center of the square, this will help you draw the individual fingers
STEP 12. how to draw anime hands
In this next step, you will start adding lines for the fingers and knuckles. Once this is done, add the shaping line for the left side of the wrist.
STEP 14. learn to draw hands
Once you're done it should look like the one in my picture. I hope you enjoyed this lesson.
For starters, pay attention to our hands. They consist of three parts: shoulder, forearm and hand. Each of them can be depicted in the form of ovals, well, or you just need to learn how to draw a hand right away. If you depict a lowered hand, then the tips of the fingers will reach the middle of the thigh, and the elbows will be at the level of the waist.
Here we have considered a method with a simplified form of the hand, now we will improve it so that it looks more natural. When you draw the hands, don't draw them too evenly. We start from the shoulder, it has a smooth bend, near the elbow the arm narrows a little and expands again at the place where the biceps are located.
The elbow will be a little hard to draw, because it's not just a bend, it's a connection, a hinge.
Next is the brush. Imagine each of the segments as a cylinder, and now turn your hand upside down and you will see three almost identical segments on each finger. Well, because all the fingers are different in length, the pads and the folds that are between them do not line up.
Let's start drawing the hand with the knuckles of the fingers from the bones. Joint 1 is the largest of the three. The second joint is located between the two (in the middle), it is smaller and shorter than the first, but longer than the third joint - the tip of the finger. It is not possible to draw all fingers in this way, since each finger has a different length.
On top of the phalanx of the fingers, you need to draw straight lines, and from the side of the palm, rounded.
But let's not forget that the male hand is slightly different from the female. The male hand is more massive and more sinewy. There are three options for drawing a hand: Muscular, toned, and a weakling's hand. 
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No aspect of drawing is as difficult as . There is very little material on the subject. The biggest difficulties arise precisely with the search for suitable material. Your hands are the most excellent material available for study. Perhaps you have never seen them under the light. In most cases, people learn how to draw hands on their own. Any teacher can only point out the facts that are connected with your hands.
The study of the hands, not including the study of anatomy, mainly consists of a comparative analysis of measurements. The fingers have a certain length in relation to the palm; the space between the knuckles of the fingers is specifically proportional to the entire finger. The palm is fairly wide compared to the length. The distance between the knuckles on the back of the finger is greater than the similar distance between the folds on the back. The length of the longest finger from its tip to the third knuckle is equal to half the length of the hand from the ball of the finger to the wrist. The thumb in its length almost reaches the second joint of the first finger. The length of the palm is approximately equal to the length of the face from the chin to the hairline. You, like anyone else, can make such comparative measurements.
The most mobile part of the body, it can accommodate objects of considerable shape and weight. Such mobility complicates the work of the artist, because the hand can take a wide variety of positions. Thanks to certain technical parameters, the hands work constantly. The palm can form a kind of hollow, contracting and unclenching. When squeezing the palm, the fingers are directed inward, towards the middle of the palm. The fingers have rather hard nails, which sometimes help a lot if you need to grab something. You take the pin with your fingertips, you take the hammer using your fingers and palm. It is impossible to fully bend back the fingers due to the rigidity of the back of the hand.
This mechanism was invented by nature for pushing movements. As we know, the hand is the most perfect mechanism for performing an almost unlimited number of actions. Added to this perfect instrument is the fact that, perhaps more than any other part of the body, this instrument depends on the brain for its operation. Most hand movements occur at the subconscious level. For example, typing on a computer or typewriter, as well as playing the piano.
In a cultural sense, man began to train his hands long before he began to train his brain. A newborn begins to use his hands effectively long before he learns to think. He can grab a burning match, not yet knowing that he can get burned. The history of human progress since prehistory can be closely associated with the development of the hands.
The fact is that hand movements do not require great skill. This may be the reason why there is very little knowledge of hand drawing. Now look at your hands, you will see them differently. Notice that before picking up any object, the hands automatically take on the appropriate shape. To draw a hand, first you need to take it, study its silhouette, look at its changes so that the hand fits under the silhouette. Try picking up a ball, a peach, or an apple, see what shape your fingers will take before you pick up the object. The mechanical principles of how the hands work is a very important part of drawing.
Only by knowing how the hands work can one learn how to draw hands.
The back of the hand is usually drawn in three plans: one is drawn for the thumb and for the lower knuckle of the index finger. The remaining two are for the back of the hand, grabbing the wrist. In most cases, the back of the hand is wavy, and this phenomenon is reduced to these three planes. The palm is usually presented in three blocks that surround the inner space of the palm - the arch, the thin base of the thumb, and small tubercles that are just below the fingers.
When the fingers are bent, the knuckles should be flush with the thumb, when the fingers are extended, the knuckles should not stand out. Care must be taken in aligning the nails because they are on their midline, which intersects with the midline of the finger. In other words, the nail can somehow change its position, we won't even notice it.
Continue to study your hands for the acquisition of general knowledge. Muscles are so deeply located that they are no less important than external forms.
Of the bones accessible to the eye, we are presented on the back of the hand with knuckles and carpal bones. If you involve the palm in its various activities, then the fingers join quite easily. Study the relative length of the fingers and remember that the thumb almost always runs at right angles to the rest of the fingers. Get rid of the idea that hands are hard to draw. It's just hard when you don't know how they work. Once understood, hands become charming.
Remember the very important fact that the palm is sunken and the back of the palm is convex. The tubercles on the palm are lined up so perfectly that they can even retain liquid. For an ancient man, the palm happened to be a cup. He put his two palms together so that he could eat food that he could not grasp with his fingers. The muscle of the thumb is undoubtedly the most important muscle in the palm. This muscle, together with the muscles of other fingers, gives a person the possibility of a very strong grip. Thanks to this, a person can even support his own weight. This muscle gives a person the ability to hold a bat, club, bow, spear, etc. The life of an animal directly depends on the strength of the muscles of the jaws. Man depends on his own hands.
When you have mastered the features of the structure and proportions of the hand, you can easily use this knowledge to display the specific features inherent in women's, infants', children's hands, as well as the hands of the elderly.
1. The line that bounds the palm of the hand resembles a "flattened iron" in its shape. This is the perfect shape to start brush painting. The outlines of a human brush literally amaze the imagination of beauties and the ideality of forms.
2. Drawing a line from the wrist along the BRUSH, we separate the area of the fingers. The auxiliary organ of the hand, the thumb, is bent in relation to the rest of the fingers; without it, the hand of man would be helpless.
3. A horizontal line drawn in the middle between the base of the hand and the end of the longest finger helps to determine the position of the fingers relative to the thumb and the rest of the palm.
4. A curved line drawn above the middle line of the hand shows the base of the fingers. The little finger is the only finger whose base is below the middle line. The rest of the fingers start above this line. Distances 1 - 5 can be considered equal. The middle finger is the longest. Each finger is limited by the oval drawn at the beginning.
5. The length of the middle finger is already known to us. Fingers 1 and 3 can be the same length, but quite often finger 3 is slightly longer. The little finger (4) is shorter than the above fingers, and the thumb (5) ends slightly above the curved line of the base of the other four fingers.
6. The length of the middle finger is already known to us. Fingers 1 and 3 can be the same length, but quite often finger 3 is slightly longer. The little finger (4) is shorter than the above fingers, and the thumb (5) ends slightly above the curved line of the base of the other four fingers.
7. At the base of the fingers there is one feature: small wrinkles are bent away from the line of the fingers and go along the line of the arc depicting the base of the fingers.
8. When the hand is straightened and the thumb is placed together with the rest, the palmar wrinkle, shown in the figure above, passes into the line of the upper joint of the thumb. A fold is clearly visible at the base of the thumb, which turns into a line representing the collected skin, similar to an inverted "T".
9. Having determined the location of the joints of the fingers (Figure b), you can depict them in two lines in the first row of joints, if the hand is massive enough. The upper joints are depicted, as a rule, by single lines. If the hand is small, then the first row of joints is depicted by single lines. And on very small hands, the joints may not be visible at all.
10. If you look at the palm from behind, then the fingers will appear longer. The lines of the borders of the fingers will reach the dashes shown in the figure.
11. If you turn the straightened brush the other way around, then part of the thumb will become invisible. Areas of free skin on all joints of the fingers will become visible. They will be in the form of small ROUND areas. On the upper joints, these areas are not as clearly visible as on the rest. The protrusions of the lower joints take the form of ellipses, so the same shape and y areas of free skin over these joints. The bones and tendons of the hand are also visible in these places.
