Drawing hands is one of the most popular topics in the learning process for artists. This is because drawing figures requires a strong understanding of how to draw hands. This can also be challenging. It is difficult to create human hands, besides the human head and face. In general, many artists draw hands in very simple and gestural forms or even do not include hands at all in their work.
There are a lot of people who struggle with drawing hands, but once you know how to do it, it isn’t too difficult. If you wish to create a realistic hand, you can either use a 3-dimensional shape or measure the proportions correctly. This guide is an excellent resource for artists who struggle to draw convincing, expressive hands in their work.
Method 1
Step: 1
The following is a diagram of a palm shape.
Step: 2
The four fingers above should be spread out.
Step: 3
Make a curve on the thumb.
Step: 4
Add wrinkles and delete the gray lines.
Step: 5
As shown, sketch a palm.
Step 6
The four fingers above should be spread out.
Step: 7
Make a curve on the thumb.
Step: 8
Add nails and wrinkles to erase the gray lines.
Step: 9
Mark and color the outline.
Method 2
Step: 1
Place two lines that represent the wrist and arm center. Here’s an initial hand shape – a broken line makes it look like a “mitten”.
Step: 2
The next step is to place a dotted triangle on the opposite side of a horizontal spotted line for the pointer finger.
Step: 3
Then, starting at the wrist, I drew a smooth line indicating the joint and the thumb, and then I made an arc from the tip of the thumb to the base of the index finger, which will determine the length of the fingers.
Step: 4
For the bend in the hand, as well as the location of the little finger, I draw a rounded line from the wrist’s edge to the middle of the “mitten.”
Step: 5
There is a bending of the pinky. Three different joints are present, which means that the tip will be smaller, and each joint will increase in size until the base is the largest. Examining your own little finger in this position is the best way to ensure accuracy.
Step: 6
Behind my pinky, you can see my ring finger peeking out. My first step is to calculate the length of the finger, which is determined by the distance of the arc. I then draw it to the line where I think it should meet. Look at the little finger, which hides the lower joint.
Step: 7
In my drawing, I begin from the upper corner of the mitten with the middle finger. Since it has no lower joint, it doesn’t appear in the arc.
Step: 8
A dotted line connects the pointer finger to the dotted line. A portion of the tip and half of the middle can be seen. In order to represent the back of the hand, I connect the lower portion of the “mitten” from the little finger to the thumb.
Step: 9
The “mitten” is finished, then I go over the two initial lines of the arm and add the wrist bone. There you have it!
Method 3
Step: 1
The backside of the hand is represented by the shape you draw. We can expect a rectangular shape, but it may curve a little, as we can see below.
Step: 2
Then, add a triangle to one of the sides of this shape. The thumb will be connected to the backside of the hand with this shape. There will eventually be a thumb on the lower portion.
Step: 3
From the rectangular shape for the backside of the hand, a few small cylinders can be drawn extending outward. The lower portion of each finger will be formed from these shapes.
Step: 4
The fingers are extended further by drawing a second set of cylinders.
Step: 5
An additional set of cylinders can complete the fingers. Look at how the finger segments are formed by the cylinders.
Step: 6
To finish drawing the hand, outline and shadow can be added. When applying the shading, pay attention to the light source. There should be consistency across all of the fingers and all of the hand parts.
Method 4
Step: 1
Take a look at the bones first. Starting with the hand’s bones, the carpal is a good place to start. Consider the differences in height between your fingers to make your hands look realistic. Middle fingers should be tallest, then ring fingers and index fingers on the upward slope, and finally, the little finger as a final point. In contrast to the rest of the fingers, the thumb should be positioned farther apart.
Step: 2
Knuckle marks are important. They mark the points where you articulate. Movement and gesture depend on them. Please mark your fingers and hand in accordance with the desired shape. To ensure that your proportions and positioning are accurate, keep a human anatomy book on hand. The knuckles are always bent. Whenever possible, choose curved lines over straight ones for a more realistic result.
Step: 3
The fingers should be drawn in 3D. As fingers are not flat, draw them as 3D shapes, and separate each finger at the joints. The result will resemble long boxes.
Step: 4
Use a darker pencil to trace your lines. Complete the lines you traced while hand sketching. You can easily replace the old layers with new ones if you’re working digitally. Simply reduce the opacity of the old layers. The lines you wish to keep can be transferred onto a new sheet of paper if you used tracing paper for the previous steps.
Step: 5
Details should be provided. Your hand should have character. How wrinkled and sun-spotted is it? Does it have freckles? Is it dry and rough? A hand’s details can convey a lot of information about its personality.
Step: 6
Set the final ink on the document. Take care to pay attention to line weight when completing the final steps of the hand illustration. To obtain the most realistic results, it is likely that you will want to change your brush or brush size in different areas.
Conclusion
In these steps, you learned how to create an easy hand. Drawing hands is not an easy task, as you may have already realized. In addition to keeping a wide variety of things in mind at once, the forms in a drawing change dramatically depending on the gesture. There are so many forms to draw in perspective on hands, which is one of the reasons why drawing them is so challenging. It is important to draw into perspective the central form of the finger, which is composed of multiple cylinders. In order to make drawing hands easier, we will break it down into simple, easy-to-understand pieces.
