Thursday, December 18, 2008

Hands: How to Draw Them, With Illustrations

"Drawing Hands"
Tom's MAD Blog (December 18th, 2008)

"Easily the most asked question I get is 'how do you draw caricatures?'. However a close runner up is 'how do you draw hands?'. I'm not exactly the king of drawing hands, but I have made a special study of them as they are very important when doing comic book type work… hands and their gestures are a big part of 'acting' and therefore of storytelling.

"Next to faces, hands are probably the most expressive and intricate part of the human form. In fact,..."

Quite a few illustrations, some in color, and detailed how-2 text, make this a good resource for someone who wants to draw hands that aren't just recognizable - but expressive, too.

The style is more what you see in caricatures, than 'realistic' - but the same principles could be carried over into strictly representational art.

There's nothing particularly new here, but the author does a good job of bringing together techniques that work, explaining how they work, and how to use them.

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