I'm Kinda Ashamed To Ask This, But Could You Make A Tutorial On How To Draw Hands? ;A;

I'm kinda ashamed to ask this, but could you make a tutorial on how to draw hands? ;A;

omg dont be ashamed at all!! Hands are generally tough to get used to, lots of artists struggle with it! so dont be ashamed i feel you.

and I actually have made a hand anatomy guide before in fact! If you want to get better at drawing hands I def recommend you learn the basic anatomy first. Please check out the ones I made, I try to make it simple and easy to understand:

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 1

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 2

There’s my guide to the anatomy, but here’s some more tips that I’ve noted to myself that I’d like to include

I'm Kinda Ashamed To Ask This, But Could You Make A Tutorial On How To Draw Hands? ;A;

First off, I’d like to just note on the fingers: if you pay close attention to your own hand, you may notice the fingers are ever ever so slightly curved inward. It’s a very subtle detail, but I noticed that, despite how slight it is, it can make a hand look more lively, and less stiff.

Second, the “M” on the palm! Your hand moves in many ways, and because it does it creates creases in your hand. The most prominent creases appear to make an M shape; this is handy to remember for what I’m going to talk about next. (It also could be a “W” I guess, or to be more specific a “ )X( “; just think of it in whatever way helps you remember!)

SO now that you see the M, draw your hand as a basic blocked shape and add your details. As you do, you can see that the M divides the palm into four basic parts!

When the hand moves, parts A, B, or C of the palm, alone or in different combos, will create the general poses that the hands do normally. These parts are the parts that move, with D being stationary, no matter what!

Here’s a chart of all the possible combos. Once you have down what part of the hand moves for a certain pose, you can change up the fingers and tweak it a bit to do what you need to make it more specific!

This is simply my method of drawing hands. God knows there are hundreds of tutorials out there by other artists, but personally, this way helps me the best (after learning the anatomy first).

This way I can divide the hand and combine the parts in any such way I need!

Hands take a lot of effort to grapple, and you need to practice them a lot, especially foreshortening of the hand; that’s really something you need to learn through your own studies. Look at your own hands, draw hands from life, from magazines, shows, comics; just draw hands! You’ll eventually figure out a method that works best for you. So to get better at drawing hands; draw hands!! And don’t stress over it, have fun with it!

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artrefforsteph

8 years ago

Foodie’s Feed / Death to the Stock / Jay Mantri / Little Visuals Picjumbo / New Old Stock / Refe / Unsplash / Gratisography

I get quite a few questions about where I find my stock images that are used in live previews so here’s a list of my favourite (all can be found on the resources page). Most of these are free to use on personal and commercial projects but double check the licenses before use.

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artrefforsteph

9 years ago

Here’s An Example Of Body Motion And Fluidity Of Movement :D Featuring Roxas, Of Course.

Here’s an example of body motion and fluidity of movement :D featuring Roxas, of course.

Here’s the link to part 1 of 4 of Force drawing by Mike Mattesi that I found helped me immensely

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artrefforsteph

9 years ago

Source: AuroraCarina-Chan

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wings

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artrefforsteph

8 years ago

HAND TUTORIAL by BlubberBooty

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artrefforsteph

9 years ago

how do you draw hair in your syle?

how do i draw hair in my style* i think thats what you mean right? Okay hair is seriously my favorite things to draw because its super fun and its really not that difficult once you get the hang of it. You need to understand how hair works though, that is very important!!!

you need to know the ‘flow’ of the hair. seriosuly. understanding how this works makes your life so much easier because then you dont need to copy EXACTLY how the characters hair looks like (if you are drawing fanart or something) and you can just make up your own way of drawing the persons hair (following the flow) and it still looks great! Yes even the crazy bedheads like kuroo has flow and parting. i hope i made sense, im terrible at explaining.

now that you know the flow, did you notice that the arrows all come from one point? That is where the hair is parted usually. I often start off where it parts and follow along the ‘arrows’.

dont draw the ‘outline’ of the hair only (meaning you dont draw what is happenig inside of the hair), there is no flow and it looks really choppy and its super difficult (unless you are really good at it go ahead idk). see how in the middle kuroo, I start with where it is parted? SO MUCH EASIER TRUST ME!!! So remember, always always always know the flow and the where the hair parts!!!

as for my style, i dont know i just draw hair and boom. style? here are a bunch of habits i do when i draw hair:

look at the very left side where it shows how I draw hair strands. remember to start with simple lines or big shapes and then gradually break it down smaller and smaller and you should be good! hope it this was helpful in some way :)

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artrefforsteph

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